Features

RNZ Music is pumped to share the long-awaited new single from Auckland indie-pop favourite Sheep Dog & Wolf. It’s his first release in more than seven years, and boy are we excited!

Age has set beloved Australian writer and broadcaster Robert Dessaix free. Now he travels the world having conversations about ageing to understand not just the challenges, but the possibilities of old age. Audio

Before the 2017 election, Jacinda Ardern called climate change her generation's "nuclear-free moment". Three years later, do the climate policies on offer this time around reflect that?

Even a miracle Covid-19 vaccine - which Donald Trump has promised Americans this month - may not be enough to save him, writes Max Towle.

After COVID-19 stopped Kiwi Ella Monnery from competing in popular Australian TV singing competition The Voice, she’s back with her debut single, ‘Work That’.

Eating roadkill, getting a vasectomy at 25 and reducing your worldly possessions to 44 items. It all makes sense if you follow environmental ethics to their logical end. That's just what Rob Greenfield has been doing Audio

Fellini’s 1960 Palme d’Or winner is one of the icons of 20th century cinema and currently 39th (equal with The 400 Blows) in the Sight & Sound Top 50 films of all time, reports Dan Slevin.

Investigative journalist Dr Norman Swan says the Covid-19 pandemic in Australia saw "superspreading social networks" that led to the situation getting out of control. Audio

The Phoenix Foundation have shared a new vid for their recent single, 'Decision Dollars', which features guest vocals from Hollie Fullbrook of Tiny Ruins. The track is the latest single from their new album Friend Ship, which is out this Friday.

The award-winning Australian writer of Boy Swallows Universe talks to Kim Hill about imposter syndrome, imagination and his new book All Our Shimmering Skies. Audio

It's been 25 years since Samoa last made a Rugby World Cup quarterfinal. Whose fault is that, asks Hamish Bidwell?

It's the biggest hit New Zealand movie you've probably not heard of, unless you've been looking in the right direction. It's called Alien Addiction. Video, Audio, Gallery

Mediawatch - Auckland’s return to Alert Level 1 was cause for celebration – but not in certain circles of the media who criticised the timing. Audio

Meet ... Ranuimarz, Wax Mustang, CHAII, ABRZY and Gino October. Video, Audio

Tony Stamp looks at the device that changed the sound of modern music forever - and its impact in New Zealand. Video, Audio

Five years ago, childhood friends Henry Firth and Ian Theasby were "overweight meaties". Now they show millions of people how to make plant-based food taste delicious. Video, Audio

A New Zealand researcher has helped expose how data is being harvested and used by churches in the US to micro target and attract people into right-wing politics. Video, Audio

The results on election night for some of the country's 72 electorates aren't likely to be much of a surprise - but others aren't so clear cut.

Brooke Fraser's iconic album Flags produced some of her best-loved tracks so far. Ten years on, she chats to Charlotte Ryan from her home in Los Angeles. Video, Audio

Voters need to enter the booth having done their research, say health, ethics and disability specialists at the RNZ-Pacific Media Network debate on the End of Life Choice Bill. Video

Rangatahi are weighing into the cannabis debate, offering their reasons for voting 'yes' or 'no' in this month's referendum on whether cannabis should be legalised. Video

As part of RNZ's 2020 election coverage we are looking at some of the communities who are part of the country's changing face and identity. Sela Jane Hopgood visited Tairāwhiti Gisborne to have a talanoa (kōrero) with one of the fastest growing Pasifika communities since the 1980s.

Change hit Ireland like "an express train" and transformed it from a backward country into one that the Irish are proud of, says one of its most famous sons. Audio

Dr Audrey Aumua is the new Chief Executive Officer of The Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand, the first Pacific woman to head the Foundation. Audio