Features

"Accidental botanist" Peter Langlands has written a guide to over 250 wild food sources around Aotearoa. Audio

Psychologists Janet Boseovski and Ashleigh Gallagher share advice fro their new book Beyond Body Positive. Audio

In Late Night with The Devil, a 1970s TV host goes for the ultimate Halloween interview. "Absolutely brilliant," says Stephen King. Is he right? Audio

Royal New Zealand Ballet's Tobias Perkins talks to Bryan Crump about the pioneering production touring Aotearoa this May. Video, Audio

Nicky Fogden-Smith, Coordinator and Course Director of the NZ Secondary Students' Symphony Orchestra, speaks to Bryan Crump ahead of the orchestra's concert in Christchurch. Audio

WATCH - Social activist and former boxer Dave Letele sits down with Guyon Espiner. Video, Audio

Belgian classical crossover pianist Daniel Verstappen is coming to Auckland for a cultural crossover gig with Samoan New Zealander Dr Opeloge Ah Sam. Joe Harrop from the Black Quartet is the middle man. Video, Audio

Next month, the Christchurch company ArcActive will take its lead-acid battery systems into commercial production. Audio

Ahead of the Royal NZ Ballet's Aotearoa tour performing Swan Lake, the company's executive director chooses some of his favourite music. Video, Audio

Origin is a serious, well-cast film that presents some fresh and intriguing ideas about racism, says Simon Morris. Video, Audio

Too often the fear of loss makes people stick around when they should pivot, says science writer David Robson. Audio

Politics doesn’t divide America, class does. This is the conclusion of Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy editor of Newsweek in her new book; Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women. Audio

Analysis - This route makes far more sense than dropping him into a team with huge expectations and playing him out of position, Jamie Wall writes.

Voice of Tangaroa - Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses live on the wind and waves, travelling huge distances, but their numbers are in decline it is believed because they are a by-catch of tuna fishing. Video, Audio

Stan Walker and Avantdale Bowling Club's Tom Scott are leading nominations for the 2024 Aotearoa Music Awards.

Civil War imagines a future America torn apart by another civil war, and the people who have to cover the story. Written by Alex Garland and starring Kirsten Dunst, it's a tight, character-driven, no-fingernails-left exciting film, writes Simon Morris. Video, Audio

Going to a gig? You had better start saving, with tickets to most international acts priced sky-high. Jogai Bhatt looks at why it costs so much.

Not sure what to eat tonight? Christchurch-based chef, author and busy mum Sam Parish knows the feeling. She shares a simple and super-tasty recipe for sizzling steak fajitas that the whole whānau will love.

In this episode of the documentary series Untold Pacific History, the life story of I'iga Pisa, an independence activist who sailed hundreds of kilometers in a small canoe to escape exile from Samoa. Video, Audio

The Orpheus Choir's concert on 20 April features Karl Jenkins' 'The Armed Man' and a work by Takerei Komene, 'E Kiwi E' and is the world premiere of their tribute to the 28th Māori Battalion. Video, Audio

They say style never goes out of fashion. So what's behind the boom in fashion from years gone by? Audio

Widescreen - Dan Slevin checks out three of the 24 features, documentaries and classics screening in this year's Italian festival.

The bus from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert vanished shortly after filming, 30 years later it was discovered in a remote NSW town, now it's being restored to its full and fabulous former glory. Journalist Sian Cain joined Nights to tell the the tale. Video, Audio

Bryan Crump talks with musicians involved in the Orpheus Choir's next concert on 20 April, which features Karl Jenkins' "The Armed Man" and a work by Takerei Komene, "E Kiwi E". It's the world premiere of their work, a tribute to the 28th Māori Battalion. Video, Audio