Features

Zimbabwe-born saxophone player Thabani Gapara is embracing the opportunities afforded him by his adopted homeland. Audio

Music reviews and writing used to be eagerly-read and hotly-contested in our papers and magazines. Mediawatch asks a former entertainment editor where that went, and what could bring it back. Audio

Listen to percussionist Justin DeHart and violist Mark Menzies perform innovative works by composers from Slovenia, Aotearoa and South Korea in this Asian Composers League concert, Ahiahi, held in Christchurch in 2022.

British comedian, actor and writer Adrian Edmondson's new memoir was "the result of a lot of strange factors all happening at once" - in particular, the United Kingdom's first Covid-19 lockdown, he tells Kim Hill. Audio

The Walt Disney Company turned a hundred last month. Cultural historian Dr Malcolm Cook talks to Bryan Crump about the role music's played in the company's success. Video, Audio

 Anne Rogers - the first female president of the Canterbury A&P Association - has some words about the wonders of wool. Audio

David Bowie's 1983 concert at Western Springs remains one of the country's largest music events, with a crowd of over 80,000. Ian Chapman looks back at a show that saw Bowie riding a wave of commercial success.   Video, Audio

Bryan Baker has been making knives for over 40 years – now his 24-year-old daughter Kelsey is also in the workshop. Audio

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the prequel to the popular series, sees the young Coriolanus Snow fall in love with a Tribute - one of the contestants in the lethal Games. Video, Audio

Award-winning social psychology researcher Dr Andrew Vonasch has discovered many of us will go to the extreme. Audio

Long Read - Jeremy Rees has read all six books shortlisted for the international literature prize so you don't have to. Audio

William Dart tracks the pathway of Wellington songwriter Ebony Lamb from the band Eb & Sparrow through to the undertstated triumph of her first solo album. Audio

It's Christ the King Sunday, and we're also marking feast days for Saints Clement and Cecilia, and hymn writer Isaac Watts. Audio

Dunedin/Auckland alt-pop band Ha The Unclear perform tracks from their upcoming album A Kingdom in a Cul-de-sac.  Video, Audio

This week, the award-winning Māori musician showed a Christchurch audience why he's a national treasure.

On Inside Out this week, Nick Tipping features Ephemeral. The new album from Wellingtonian Dave Wilson deals with the nature and shape of relationships. Audio

William McKegg's short film Medicine was filmed entirely in the Indian city of Raipur.

Colin Haines – a Salted Caramel man – chats to Jesse Mulligan about the American-style diner he and his wife Carolyn opened back in 1978. Audio

Māori baritone Kawiti Waetford is coaching some of Te Tai Tokerau's brightest young singers for The Barber Shop Sessions. Audio

Widescreen - What was originally a neorealist classic about a specific time and place has become a universal portrait of the grinding tragedy of poverty, says Dan Slevin.

The New Zealand E-Sports Basketball team is set to challenge for the eFIBA World title in Sweden this weekend.

Getting "jollied along" by a parent won't help an upset teenager learn how to deal with their own difficult feelings, says clinical psychologist Zara Mansoor. Audio

Mana Moana - Pasifika songs with symphonic sound by Signature Choir and the NZSO is at Auckland's Spark Arena tonight, and RNZ Concert's recordings of the songs are now on YouTube and Spotify. It is a beautiful thing. Video, Audio

A brand new production of Tim Minchin's awarding-winning show is returning to Auckland next year. Bryan Crump talks with director Grant Meese. Audio