Features

RNZ's Perlina Lau runs her eye over the best streamers coming up this month, including Beef, Barry and the final Marvelous Mrs Maisel.

It's a two hour Good Friday Nashville Babylon special this week with music from the likes of Aretha Franklin, JJ Cale, Nina Simone, Talking Heads, Bob Marley, Lambchop, the Gypsy Kings and much much more... Audio

Chef Sam Parish skips the dairy and includes a surprise dash of umami in these home-baked Easter treats. Video, Audio

Our Changing World - Hundreds of thousands of starlings and sparrows are threatening native species in the Rotopiko peat wetlands near Hamilton. Audio

It's an extra-special year for the Port of Tauranga National Jazz Festival. Hear about what's on offer from festival director Marc Anderson. Audio

Mark Rogers plays two hours of feel-good music from Aretha Franklin, Talking Heads, Bob Marley, the Gypsy Kings and much, much more. Audio

LISTEN: Pop star Benee teams up with the NZSO for this spectacular show of her award-winning songs in amazing new symphonic arrangements in the style of Disney, James Bond, and 90's trip-hop making for a dynamic show full of surprises. Audio

Naomi Toilalo shares a decadent Easter treat (and some useful te reo vocab) in this recipe for brown butter cookies studded with chocolate caramel eggs and tamari almonds. Reka (yum)!

Beginning with the joyous procession of Palm Sunday and proceeding through the anguish of the Crucifixion to the first report of the empty tomb on Easter Sunday, the voices of the Tudor Consort leads us in a meditation of music for Holy Week.

Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves has surprised the critics by being thoroughly entertaining, it works because it has charm and a great cast writes Simon Morris. Video, Audio

While dressing up for a formal occasion used to be the norm for all of us, these days it seems anything goes. Should we all be making more of an effort? Writes Niki Bezzant.

A special selection of hymns to mark this important day in the Christian liturgical calendar. Audio

With a long weekend coming up, the time is ripe to get stuck into some of those change-of-season gardening jobs, writes Hannah Zwartz.

Mihingarangi Forbes speaks to the National Party’s new Māori MP Tama Potaka about co-governance and Māori Development. Panelists Dr Lara Greaves and Ngarimu Blair discuss white cis men, free speech and political lobbying. Video, Audio

A Pasifika music artist is aiming to elevate the Samoan language into mainstream spaces. Aaron Pulemagafa, aka The Western Guide, said the lack of Pacific bilingual songs in New Zealand's music scene and his fondness of Samoan ballads led him to create his latest single, Siva Mai. Audio

A ravishing set delivers contemplative, slightly melancholy music from violist Robert Ashworth and The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. Hear music by Purcell, Britten, Handel and Holst live at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Auckland. 

John Michael McDonagh's The Forgiven is set at a party in Morocco thrown by the idle rich, starring Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain and Matt Smith. Video, Audio

Librarian Catherine Ross chooses a stack of classic reads for 10-14 year olds that have stood the test of time. Audio

Analysis - Almost $22 million is being pumped into female rugby, which may well end up being a key turning point for the game as we know it in Aotearoa, Jamie Wall writes.

 Duality is a raw look at Māori with mixed-whakapapa who are on a journey to find their identity.

The Detail - In a paddock north of Auckland lies a unique piece of infrastructure that's exposed the short-sighted nature of scientific funding in New Zealand.  Audio

Analysis - We know from mining land-based sources that it's a practice where there's no respect for the relationships between people, the land and ocean, writes Liam Kokaʻua.

A study of megaprojects over the last 30 years finds that 99.5 percent of them fail on budget, timeliness and the delivery of promised benefits. Audio

Little Pomegranate Tree - Adel escaped religious persecution in Iran as a teenager. He talks with his wife Maxine and daughter Carmel about language, whakapapa, plane rides, and the privilege of putting art first. Video, Audio