Features

Extra Time - The Silver Ferns are finally back on court adjusting to life without Laura Langman - but how are the world champions shaping up for their three test series against Commonwealth Games champions England? Audio

Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a unique sensation some people have when they see, hear, or feel certain triggers. Video, Audio

Analysis - After the election, Parliament will be much more representative than it has been - but it still doesn't fully represent NZ's population, writes Paul Spoonley.

British comedian Jo Brand's latest project is a feature film The More You Ignore Me, starring Sheridan Smith as a Gina, a schizophrenic mum who is hospitalised after becoming obsessed with a local weatherman. Video, Audio

Voices - Helping teach children this ancient language with roots in Mesopotamia are a group of passionately protective custodians - both young and old, in Wellington.  Audio

The Detail - A growing population, cities straining at the edges, and everyone wants a back yard for the kids. Or do they? We may have reached the stage where a change of mindset is helping to house people.  Audio

Marlon Williams is back with new music. ‘I Wonder Why’ is the first from his upcoming album Plastic Bouquet, which is a collaboration with Canadian duo Kacy & Clayton. He’s also announced his first solo tour in six years.

Our Changing World - Jocelyn Turnbull from GNS Science is measuring how much CO2 we're producing in NZ towns - and she's doing it by cutting the grass. Audio

RNZ Music is thrilled to present this powerful live performance from Dunedin artist Abby Wolfe.  Abby recorded the song, her latest single ‘Held By You’, at Dunedin’s stunning St Paul's Cathedral.

Breaking up is hard to do. But sometimes breaking up with a toxic friend is even harder than ending a romantic relationship, says neuropsychologist Dr Hannah Korrel. Audio

The Detail - Construction of Auckland's City Rail Link is well underway and don't local retailers know it. It's killing the heart of the city and turned it into a cone zone, the sound of construction replacing the ringing of tills.  Audio

Opinion - The Kiwi-Indian community is shocked by the scale of Labour's election victory and thrilled to see it has also resulted in the first win by a Kiwi-Indian in an electorate Sandeep Singh writes.

Susan Rogers always dreamed of working in the recording industry and then along came a prince, the Prince, who, along with her own tenacity, helped make that dream come true. Audio, Gallery

Kiwi duo Foley are back! RNZ Music is stoked to present this special live performance of their latest single ‘Rendezvous’. It’s the first in a series of stripped-back arrangements they’ll be creating alongside their upcoming releases.

No one knows exactly how the post-Covid world will look in 10 years from now, but Harvard University professor and author Joseph Nye says pandemics are not always transformative events. Audio

New Zealand audiophile label Rattle Records is about to reach the 30-year mark. Founder Steve Garden talks about the journey so far. Video, Audio

Transforming the electricity grid into a DC/AC hybrid model will enable modern technologies, leading to efficiencies and reducing the nation's carbon foot print, a leading researcher says. Audio

The Detail - Journalist Aaron Smale talks about his deep-dive investigation into children abused in state care - and the roadblocks the Crown put up to stop the details getting out. Audio

This week celebrates the growing role of music therapy in the mental health sector, and the benefits that professional music therapy can have on the wellbeing of our communities. Video, Audio

Opinion - Labour needs to persuade us that the necessary pathway to change, while challenging, is in our best interest if it wants to achieve its bold vision, Jessica Berentson-Shaw writes.

It's remote and rugged, an archipelago of over 700 islands and is the birthplace of New Zealand's conservation efforts, a new book charts Tamatea's history since it was first declared a reserve in the late 19th century. Audio, Gallery

RNZ Music is fizzing to present the brand new single and video from South-Auckland’s premiere genre defying band Valkyrie. Their new single ‘Minamina’ features Waiata Māori Music Award-winner Pere and fuses te reo Māori with salsa, pop, and hip-hop.

One of the world's most high-profile economists says the only way New Zealand will stop its burgeoning housing market being a driver of inequality is through wealth taxes. Audio

Papua New Guineans are questioning why their names are included in a leaked database of personal information compiled by a Chinese company. Audio