Features

Flaxmere grandmother Nanny Moewaka has an original take on violin-playing.

"Dirty linen, and patients and families all using the same entry and exit door – it’s crazy." Audio

French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie is on tour with the NZSO and you can hear him in tonight's live broadcast from Wellington at 6.30pm on RNZ Concert. Audio

John F Kennedy would have seen climate change as an opportunity as well as a challenge, says Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist. Audio

Consumer affairs minister Kris Faafoi is taking on loan sharks. Audio

Daring to grieve is the same as daring to love, says Dr BJ Miller, co-author of A Beginner's Guide to the End. Audio

A historian looks into the places that are vanishing, disappearing or lost, either due to manmade action or natural disaster, and what they teach us about how we treat the Earth and our future. Audio

Analysis - Amid the KiwiBuild reset announcement came the smell of burning rubber as the government performed some of the biggest political u-turns you've ever seen, writes Tim Watkin.

Sitting up in his hospital bed in 1918, Elgar sketched on a scrap of paper what was to become the nostalgic opening theme of his 'Cello Concerto in E minor'. We'll hear Sheku Kanneh-Mason playing the concerto in tonight's BBC Prom. Audio

Eyewitness - The 1985 Live Aid concert was broadcast all around the world to provide relief and aid to the Ethiopian famine at the time, but after some glitches and obstacles it almost nearly didn't make it to air here in New Zealand. Audio

William Dart listens to the new album from British band The Leisure Society. Songwriter Nick Hemming is the master of melancholia in his lyrics, but the band clothes it all in exquisite alt-pop finery. Video, Audio

First Person - During Tongan Language Week, RNZ Pacific's news editor Koro Vaka'uta tells a personal story about being Tongan and growing up in Aotearoa.

The Detail - Kashmir is a region of snow capped mountains and idyllic landscapes - as well as barbed wire and army round-ups. Tension has risen again as India moves in on the nation's autonomy.   Audio

Papatoetoe High School students Silika Isaia and Russell Sega have made it to the finals of the 2019 Smokefree Rock Quest. They join us in studio to perform live. Video, Audio

Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of legal blindness in New Zealand, but a new therapy being researched in Australia may offer sufferers some hope. Audio

Hamimah Tuyan lost her husband, Zekeriya, in the Christchurch mosque attacks and is about to leave the country with her children. She had one message to share with New Zealanders before her departure. Audio

RNZ Music is proud to present Lawrence Arabia’s new music video for ‘One Unique Creature’, created by Auckland illustrator Frances Haszard.

Works by the feminist, pacifist and modernist painter Rita Angus are destined for a world first exhibition at London's Royal Academy of Arts next year. Video

An ABC journalist says he spent about a year digging back in to a story that never left his family's minds, and changed their lives forever. He's now made a seven-part series podcast on the mysterious story. Audio

Opinion - The KiwiBuild "reset" changes announced are an attempt to lower the public's expectations, and voters should insist on something better, writes Bryce Edwards.

What is the real story behind Elgar's 'Enigma Variations'? Indra Hughes looks into it. Audio

Internal Affairs has approved hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of community grants to anti-abortion pregnancy counselling organisations over the past 15 years. Susan Strongman reports.

Listen to Year 9 student Reikura Boyd from Aorere College - who wowed the judges at the Stand Up Stand Out competition with her version of Radiohead's song, Creep. Audio

Sound and performance artist Him shares her second single ‘Suicide Town’ from her debut EP - pouring out her emotions and feelings on the loss of life around her, but it's not a sad song she says.