Features

Auckland-based artist and animator Luca Tu'avao Walton is an emerging voice in the Pacific creative landscape, with a distinctive style rooted in memory, identity, and the 'nostalgia' of island life.

As the Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville prepares to elect a new government, front and centre is the issue of independence.

In Aotearoa, a Pacific advocate for youth homelessness says the country must address poverty and systemic inequities to fix the housing affordability crisis.

The UN's highest court issued a stinging ruling that countries have a legal obligation to limit climate change and provide restitution for harm caused, giving legal force to an idea that was hatched in a classroom in Port Vila.

The US Postal Service has acknowledged routing errors caused chronic delays in mail delivery to the Northern Mariana Islands.

In Papua New Guinea, more than 31 instances of polio have been detected since the disease reemerged earlier this year.

Women engineers from Fiji working for the Marshalls Energy Company in Majuro say their experience has been "transformative".

Fiji's chief prosecutor claims the President's suspension of his FJ$250,000 salary is illegal and unjustified.

Samoa's caretaker prime minister backs the Solomon Islands' plan to defer Pacific Islands Forum partners dialogue meeting. Audio

Wellington-born Alan Niven managed American rock band Guns N' Roses at the peak of their career in the late 1980s, and has the stories to prove it!.

On a wintry Sunday night an insect-themed classical concert for children was just the ticket. Bryan Crump reviews a special performance of The Spider's Feast and Carnival of the Animals with youthful participation.

After five decades performing at piano bars around the world - and a stint in an Italian jail - Linn Lorkin still loves making Auckland audiences smile.

Dunedin-born composer Nathaniel Otley has written a new piece inspired by the 2015 South Dunedin flood. Audio

Hymns to mark the Feast of the Transfiguration today, including Immortal, invisible, and Christ whose glory fills the skies. Audio

Nick Tipping picks the must-have jazz albums to kickstart your record collection. Audio

Young New Zealand tenor Taylor Wallbank is about to embark on two years of study and performance in Italy. Video, Audio

Conductor - and part-time park ranger - Jun Märkl is in New Zealand to conduct Ravel's massive paean to Nature: Daphnis & Chloe. Audio

Robert Ibell first worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time cellist, but in recent years he's gone back to school to help coach the next generation of musicians. Video, Audio

Composer Jack Bewley talks about his brass band work for the end of the world. Video, Audio

Arthur Sullivan was the music half of the successful theatrical partnership, Gilbert and Sullivan. Alongside those catchy songs from Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore, he also wrote hymn tunes. You can hear one this week, paired with words by poet Christopher Wordsworth (nephew of William). Audio

On the eve of the 60th secondary schools' chamber music contest, violinist Miles Golding remembers when he was part of the trio that won the first competition. Video, Audio

Indian classical musician Ustad Fazal Qureshi is in New Zealand for a concert in honour of his brother and fellow tabla player, Ustad Zakir Hussain. Video, Audio

NZSO trombonist and Wellington Brass music director Dave Bremner talks about his latest project, helping to set up a National Youth Brass Band in Tonga. Audio

Brian Castles-Onion and Madeleine Pierard talk to RNZ Concert ahead of Wellington Opera's production of Verdi's "A Masked Ball". Audio