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Humans are very good at inventing things but very bad at anticipating the harmful and unintended consequences of that inventiveness, says scientist Sir Peter Gluckman. From February 2020. Audio

After seeing his overseas opera performances cancelled, Wagnerian tenor Simon O'Neill is holed up at home, keeping his voice in shape and teaching his kids to play brass.

Despite dour economic predictions, the Covid-19 recovery offers opportunities for entrepreneurial success beyond any seen for decades, Dr Tadhg Ryan-Charleton writes.

Plans are underway to return the body of Laisenia Qarase, the former prime minister who led Fiji through a tumultuous six years bookended by two coups, to his home village for burial.

The House - Only a few days remain for the public to share their view on a bill which would allow prisoners to enrol to vote. Here’s what submitters need to know. Video, Audio

Just when you think you can tell a simple old story to your kids they make it difficult!  A modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale - for young and sceptical ears. A bit of fun before ANZAC day.

Musicians Marlon Williams and Finn Andrews are in lockdown. They caught up via Zoom to perform covers of one another’s songs, talk about their punk dads, and reminisce about backstage karaoke.

RNZ Concert's recording in the reopened Christchurch Town Hall has won Gold for 'Live Sound' at the prestigious New York Festivals Radio Awards.

We’re stoked to be the first to share the new song and video from psych-pop group Glass Vaults. ‘Oils and Perfume’ is the first single from the band’s new album Sounds That Sound Like Music, due out later this year.

Today’s podcast of the day has just won a gold medal at the 2020 New York Festival of Radio Awards. White Silence tells the story of the 1979 Erebus plane crash 40 years on. Video, Audio

After Taiwan's government suggested a group of sailors may have picked up coronavirus in Palau, the island nation's government says that is very unlikely.

The Pacific Community, or SPC, says having decimated tourism, Covid-19 is also posing a threat to the region's fisheries.

Ioana Cristina Goicea won the Michael Hill International Violin Competition in 2017 and returned for her winner's tour with pianist Andrey Gugnin.

Fiji Rugby's Chairman Francis Kean has been removed from the World Rugby Council and withdrawn from the race for positions on the international body's Executive Committee following allegations of homophobia.

New Caledonia's dominant anti-independence political group has denounced the comments by the leader of the Caledonian Union Daniel Goa over the management of the Covid-19 outbreak.

British writer Neil Gaiman has been coming to New Zealand for writing appearances for years now, but he never envisaged he'd be locked down here. Audio

Newly resettled former refugees who've just begun to find their feet in their new communities across New Zealand, are getting by in lockdown, with the help of volunteers from Red Cross. Audio

Aroha has some simple things she does to calm herself when she's feels like she’s not important or she just feels uncomfortable about herself. Perfect stuff for the stress of lockdown

Bougainville's government is planning to delay the regional election by up to two months because of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Tonga and Samoa have received boosts to their Covid-19 responses from the Asian Development Bank.

Australians have risked penalties by protesting during Covid-19 restrictions in support of Nauru and Manus Island refugees detained in Australia.

Mediawatch - ​The Kiwi co-founder of a successful digital publishing business in the US says the chaos of our media’s current crisis obscures an opportunity to break their dependence on dwindling volumes of ads. Audio

We are by nature a worried species, and yet a resilient one, says philosopher Alain de Botton. Audio

Each episode of Bugle Stories looks at a different shiny or dull facet of a little copper and brass instrument, the standard army issue bugle. A six-part series produced and presented by Shelley Wilkinson.