Features

Analysis - Over the next two weeks the Silver Ferns will attempt to do something they've never done before - win back-to-back Netball World Cups, writes Bridget Tunnicliffe.

From body shaming to overworking and catastrophic thinking, there's a whole gamut of behaviours that come under the umbrella term anxiety, says Dr Stephanie Dowrick. Audio

Season 9 of The Brokenwood Mysteries launched at the weekend on TVNZ. This little slice of Kiwi murder-mstery now has a huge global audience, writer and producer Tim Balme says. Video, Audio

A ship's bell sitting in Te Papa Museum that contains an inscription in Tamil has long puzzled historians in New Zealand.

The House - Five New Zealand MPs from across the political spectrum are visiting Samoa to build relationships within the country - and among themselves. Audio

From the clinically reliable, to the entertainers of the game - sports reporter Bridget Tunnicliffe reporting from Cape Town highlights five players to look out for at the Netball World Cup in South Africa.

The Long Read -  Nikki Mandow joins The Detail's Alexia Russell to tell how she got interested in procurement strategy and why the government has gone quiet on its 2018 'broader outcomes' strategy.  Audio

This year’s Classical on Cuba includes performances in a furniture store! Elliot Vaughan is Artistic Director. Audio

Pianist Tony Chen Lin is performing Schumann's Piano Quintet in Eb with the Sonoro Quartet around the country for Chamber Music New Zealand. Audio

Richard Thompson planted Papaiti forest with alternative species 30 years ago. He never dreamt at the time he would become a timber merchant with a joinery workshop and retail shed. Audio

Design studio Hipgnosis were the creators of some of the most famous imagery in 20th century rock music - from the prism of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to the all-star prison breakout on the front of Wings' Band on the Run. Video, Audio

Dan Slevin previews two more titles from this year’s Whānau Marama New Zealand International Film Festival; an Iranian film No Bears and Sisu by Jalmari Helander.

Design studio Hipgnosis were the creators of some of the most famous imagery in 20th century rock music - from the prism of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to the all-star prison breakout on the front of Wings' Band on the Run. Video, Audio

One of New Zealand's most intriguing cricket mysteries is how Rodney Redmond could score a test 100 on debut and never play for his country again, writes Jimmy Ellingham. Video, Audio

Some of the effects of long Covid on patients' bodies are debilitating, and the future burden could be "so large as to be unfathomable", says world leading immunologist Professor Danny Altmann. Audio

Nothing much changed in a 1News Verian poll released on Monday. Some commentators treated the boring results as a blank canvas on which to express their creativity. Audio

Award-winning Pacific Soul singer Seth Haapu plays tracks from his highly anticipated new album WHAI ORA. Audio

Tony Bennett was the great interpreter of the American songbook. Bennett, who died on Friday in New York, delighted generations of audiences from the 1950s to the 2020s with stylish renditions of classic songs.

When Vegemite first appeared 100 years ago it failed to excite people, the grandson of its inventor says. Video, Audio

RNZ's new multimedia series Undercurrent explores why political conspiracy theories are ringing true to many New Zealanders in 2023.

Kiwi superyacht stewardess Aesha Scott says delivering five-star service while filming a reality show is the hardest thing she's ever done. Video, Audio

A bank manager becomes suspicious of his fiancée's parents in this formulaic American comedy now on Netflix. Video, Audio

Christopher and Siobhan O'Malley have finally scored their own slice of rural paradise on the West Coast. Audio

Food writer and doctor ​Alby Hailes shares his go-to recipe for a versatile vegan cake.