Features

Enjoy music by Aotearoa composers Karlo Margetić and Louise Webster; Hiroaki Tokunaga from Japan, Kurt Rohde from the U.S., and Jae-Moon Lee from South Korea in this Asian Composers League concert recorded by RNZ Concert.

Hine Waitai-Dye (Ngāti Kurī) says an open mind is the number one prerequisite for learning to construct a traditional Māori canoe. Video, Audio, Gallery

Sufjan Stevens' new release, Javelin, has provoked William Dart to a week of deep immersion in the American's earlier music to find out just where his new elegiac songs fit in. Audio

We're celebrating the First Sunday of Advent today with some favourite Advent hymns including O Come Emmanuel, and Of the Father's Heart Begotten. Audio

English grime music pioneer Flowdan chats to Samantha Mythen before hitting the stage in Wellington.

This week, Nick Tipping focuses on jazz manouche, a genre created by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, and carried on by modern masters Angelo DeBarre, Stochelo Rosenberg, and Biréli Lagrène. Audio

Sociologist David Brooks believes treating others with kindness and respect is something we can all learn to do better. Video, Audio

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’ celebration of cheap and nasty filmmaking, Grindhouse, comes home in a paradoxically beautiful package, reports Dan Slevin.

Kelly Gibney shares a summer barbecue side dish from her latest cookbook Enjoy.

You don't really cook a Christmas cake as much as dry it out, says the NZ Agricultural Show fruitcake convener. Audio

Thousands attend the fifth NZ Sikh Games and the first NZ Kabaddi World Cup that took place simultaneously in South Auckland last weekend.

We tend to focus on the masters, but every musician has to start somewhere. And that's when Christopher Norton comes to the fore. Video, Audio

In the 135 years since Jack the Ripper's brutal murder spree in London's Whitechapel, numerous individuals have been named as the culprit, now a British author, Sarah Bax Horton, believes she has finally cracked the case. Audio

WATCH - Armed with nets and torches, Charlotte & her crew find some of our most unseen native fish species and build them a passage into the mountains.

A masterpiece of its genre, examining the history of the sport  from the inside out, Ryan Bodman makes us realise that rugby league has done well to survive, let alone thrive, writes Michael Burgess.

Nyad tells the (mostly) true of long-distance swimmer Diane Nyad who failed to swim from Cuba to Florida, then decided to try again 30 years later at the age of 60. Starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster. Video, Audio

In 2013, everyone was reading I am Pilgrim, a gripping spy novel that quickly became a worldwide bestseller. Nine years later, author Terry Hayes is offering his readers a follow up: The Year of the Locust. Audio

In an age where ChatGPT presents an approximation of human thought, Kraftwerk's man-machine feels very present, writes Nic Gorman. Video

We tend to focus on the masters, but every musician has to start somewhere. And that's when Christopher Norton comes to the fore. Video, Audio

Is your partner getting on your nerves at the moment? Relax, it’s not you, it’s them, says psychologist Karen Nimmo. But before you make plans to get rid of them before Christmas, you might be part of the problem too. Audio

Sir Ridley Scott's latest epic Napoleon doesn't quite manage to capture the "maddeningly ungraspable anti-hero," writes Simon Morris. Video, Audio

Our Changing World - A ‘rat plague’ has come to the beech forest near Makarora, and Jo Tilson is worried for the little population of mohua who call this area home.   Audio

Widescreen - The free streamer has had a facelift, with performance and reliability improvements, but has the feature film offering also improved? Asks Dan Slevin.

American soul singer Lee Fields' classic voice has taken him all over the world, now he brings his soulful southern grooves to Aotearoa for a special one-night-only performance at the Hollywood Avondale in Auckland. Audio