Features

This festival showcases new and innovative music from composers around the world. Pianist Gabriela Glapska performs compositions from Aotearoa, Hungary, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Australia, Japan, Serbia, and Taiwan.

The Jacobson family make the most of whatever's around to live sustainably on their Taranaki farmlet, Audio

Justine Murray explores the history of Whakatāne – and scores some delicious drive-through hāngī. Audio

The days are getting shorter – and colder – and autumn colours are all around. The perfect time for harvest hymns! Audio

Singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook and the band perform songs from the brand-new album Ceremony. Video, Audio

One place jazz musicians have often turned to for inspiration is the women in their lives. Audio

Rat breeder Belinda Clarke wants to convince Aucklanders that rodents can be as nice to have around as small puppies. Audio

Chef Sam Parish shares the at-home version of her mum's easy and delicious campfire gnocchi. 

Indie queen Lili Taylor and young American-Kiwi actor Stephania LaVie Owen play mother and daughter in this American art film. Video, Audio

Sports reporter Jonty Dine reviews the most shocking moments in mixed martial arts history. Video

Comedian Josh Thomson chats to Jesse Mulligan about funk music, fantasy novels and what freaks him out. Video, Audio

Explainer - On Monday night, the Aurora Australis put on a spectacle in a rare solar storm. Astronomers say this hints towards more frequent visible auroras. Audio

Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is soloist with the NZSO, playing Ernest Bloch's evocative cello rhapsody, 'Schelomo'. Audio

Wānaka lawyer and farmer Alice Sanders talks about dealing with an injury that's invisible to others and her journey of recovery. (Originally published on The Shepherdess and republished with permission)

Kirikiriroa-based musician Jeremy Mayall is part of the multicultural and mult-instrumental collaboration with fellow composer, Horomona Horo. The project is called He Aho Rōreka. Audio

The popular '80s horror-comedy franchise returns with a gory new film shot in Auckland. Video, Audio

Marine scientist Dr Pete Russell has been keeping tabs on tropical cyclones in the South Pacific for seven years. Audio

In the early 1940s, a young Sergeant Alexander Brown from Mangaia, Cook Islands was killed in action. Audio

Hauraki District councillor Rino Wilkinson remembers filling up glass bottles with Paeroa's precious mineral water as a child. Audio

Taupō chef Hare Rewi used to think eating for health was "a load of rubbish". Now he's merging his Māori food business with his partner Lilith's clean-eating cafe Positive Kaibration. Audio

WATCH - After a decade of struggling for a diagnosis, Ruby Rowe finally found out endometriosis was affecting her fertility.

LISTEN: Love of Bohemia inspired Bedřich Smetana to compose this musical panorama of history and landscape: Legends of fearsome warriors; a mighty fortress of ancient kings; the bucolic countryside; the battles of the Hussite Wars; and the river binding them all together.

WATCH - Māori TikToker Thomas Pakoti talks about getting into the rhythm of fitness training.

New research compares the melodic and rhythmic abilities of nearly half a million people, across 54 different languages. The study's lead author Dr Samuel Mehr, speaks with Ingrid Hipkiss about the results. Audio