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France has formally ceded its former navy command centre in Papeete to French Polynesia.

The leader of the opposition Samoa First Party says she was surprised at the numbers who turned out to protest against three controversial bills before parliament.

A new children's book featuring the popular Mate Ma'a Tonga rugby league team is to be released this year on Tongan Language Week.

The Speaker of New Zealand's parliament wants his fellow officials to better appreciate their place in the Pacific.

From dawn to well beyond dusk, seven days a week, Lina Chang and her team are plying the streets of Apia and beyond in a van laden with food parcels.

Papua New Guinea’s two daily newspapers – the PNG Post-Courier and The National – which dominate the market, demonstrated “overwhelming deference” to the office of former  Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, says a new report about the country’s media freedom.

Chef Sammy Akuthota from Auckland's Satya Chai Lounge shares his tasty recipe.

Professional opera singers Wade Kernot and Emma Pearson have launched a small, safe-distancing opera company to give street serenades. Video, Audio, Gallery

Wellington-based tabla player Chetan Ramlu kicked off an online musical project for Indian classical musicians around the world. Audio

There's a reflective feel to this week's episode which includes a beautiful setting of 'Be Still, My Soul' by New Zealand musicians Tami Neilson and Don McGlashan. Video, Audio

Two Cents' Worth - Meet Bella, Jamie and Yumi. Just some of the robots taking over our jobs. But does this have to be as scary as it sounds? Peter Griffin finds out. Audio

Jesse Mulligan wants to see what you've got. Audio

This week, Nick reacts to the whole quarantine thing. Audio

Next week's Budget will lay bare New Zealand's rocky road to economic recovery, writes Peter Wilson.

With the support of the Wellington City Council entry to Zealandia will be free for the first few weeks of level two lockdown, Lynn Freeman reports on how the sanctuary has coped with lockdown.

The finalists for 2020 Best Country Music Artist and Best Country Music Song have been announced.

When RNZ Music's Nick Bollinger was three, he was given a wind-up gramophone and a pile of old 78s. That's where his passion for music began, and hasn’t really stopped since. He shares his musical journey in ten favourite singles. 

RNZ has an archive of adapted novels, biographies, travelogues and much more for you to listen to - have a browse of our collection of 40 readings.

Good literature retains a magical quality that is both enlightening and subversive, offering an authentic inner experience of life, English Booker Prize-winning novelist Graham Swift says. Audio

We’re celebrating the 20th New Zealand Music Month with brand new covers of classic Kiwi tracks. Today it's Aldous Harding's 'Imagining My Man' as covered by the Phoenix Foundation's Samuel Flynn Scott.

A journey from generations of standard dairy farming to a new, regenerative approach is having early benefits for the land and the farmer, writes Alina Siegfried.

A high-speed rail service can work on New Zealand’s narrow-gauge tracks, and Queensland's rail system has already proven it, a rail commentator says. Audio

Drummer and producer Wayne Bell looks over a music career of taste and tempos gleaned from decades of experience playing with a veritable who’s who of artists from all walks of life. Audio

A rainy day - the kids are stuck inside. A huge dragon takes off with the dog so Flynn and Paddy set off on a rescue mission