Features

The House - The Minister of Finance talks us through the ceremonial nature of the delivery of the Budget in Parliament. Audio

In New Zealand to play all five Beethoven Piano Concertos with the NZSO, Paul Lewis talks about the uniqueness of a live music performance experience. Audio

The Detail - Touring, funding, streams, royalties, merch - making a living as a local musician can be a rollercoaster. Audio

Elizabeth Kerr talks with Bryan Crump about her online music review blog, Five Lines. Audio

Was the artist Andy Warhol the first influencer of our age? The curator of Andy Warhol & Photography: A Social Media, a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, reckons he would be all over social media if he were alive today. Audio, Gallery

At 57, it's hard to believe Alison Goldfrapp is only just now dropping her first solo album.After all, for the past two-and-a-half decades she's been the face and voice of a synthpop duo that bore her own name. Video, Audio

Tony Stamp reviews the reissue of an ambient album by Brian Eno and Fred Again…, Terrible Sons' hushed and wholesome debut LP and a reissue by Dunedin band Cloudboy. Audio

"It's an absolute roller coaster, to be honest"  This New Zealand Music Month, The Detail takes a closer look at how local musicians are paying the bills. Audio

Mediawatch - US-based NewsGuard is rating New Zealand's significant news sites for reliability - and even preparing ‘nutrition labels’ to warn users to treat them with caution. Video, Audio

Australian early instrument ensemble Van Diemen's Band explore music by a variety of 17th-century composers who worked as borders shifted beneath their feet, as well as new works for baroque instruments from Iceland and New Zealand.

Mstyslav Chernov is part of a small team of Associated Press Ukrainian journalists who last week won a Pulitzer Prize for their fearless reporting from Mariupol last year, he spoke to Kim Hill about his experiences. Audio

At 57, it's hard to believe the voice behind synthpop duo Goldfrapp is only just now dropping her first solo album. Video, Audio

Recipe relics from New Zealand’s food past might be unpalatable to modern tastes, but we should be grateful to the cooks who created them says comedian and vintage cookbook collector Te Radar.

Mahler’s Fourth symphony - a picture of the perfect childhood - is paired with Gabriella Smith's Tumblebird Contrails, a hauntingly evocative work inspired by the Pacific Ocean. The soprano is Madeleine Pierard, conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya.  

Cairo Conspiracy is a thriller set in Al-Azhar university, the centre of Sunni Islam. An innocent young student finds himself being used as a spy to manipulate the election of a new leader. Video, Audio

Known for his contemporary takes on Shakespeare, Aotearoa theatre director and scholar David Lawrence believes the Bard’s intentions have been long compromised by being organised into the genres of comedy, history and tragedy.  Audio

Teremoana Rapley, Lou'ana, Erny Belle and others share the song they'd most love to have their name on.

Books are where people find themselves, and banning them is ultimately counterproductive because it tends to draw further attention to these controversial texts, argues a professor at Oxford University. Audio

Mahe Pofele and his dad Tui share a heartfelt conversation in the final episode of Conversations With My Immigrant Parents. Video, Audio

Some in the media made a concerted effort to take last week’s severe weather warnings seriously - others, not so much.  Audio

New Zealand Music Month is in full swing and to celebrate it, William Dart features the music of Douglas Lilburn (courtesy of guitarist Gunter Herbig), along with Seth Haapu, Lips, Robbie Ellis and that dauntless ukulele trio, The Nukes. Audio

Westport writer and mum Becky Manawatu hasn't been able to do as much as she's wanted to for her kids, herself or anyone else for some time.

Traditionally, the total parliamentary votes for each side of a question are counted by an MP - but it turns out they just aren’t that good at counting. Audio

Botox and fillers are increasingly popular with Kiwis, but there are concerns that our regulations are too lax.