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Alicia Olatuja brings luscious tone, personal engagement and natural elegance to her recent Wellington performance. Audio

Sydney-based criminal lawyer turned novelist Sarah Hopkins has spent years defending young people in the children's court and now she's turned her experiences into a work of fiction. Audio

The Marmen Quartet, including Kiwi viola player Bryony Gibson-Cornish, has won a major prize in France.

When Harriet Shawcross was a teenager she stopped talking to anyone other than her family, at school she was silent except to answer direct questions. She has written a book about the experience, and her recovery. Audio

In 1975, at the end of the Vietnam War, a very unusual mercy mission was launched, Operation Babylift was designed to take hundreds of Vietnamese babies and children away from the war-torn country. Audio, Gallery

The Podcast Hour - Mark Longley's daughter Emily was murdered in England when she was 17 years old in 2011, in this podcast he looks at how we cope with overwhelming grief and loss. Audio, Gallery

Jacques Offenbach takes an irreverent approach to Greek mythology and his opera Orpheus shocks the music world in 1858. 

The Detail - Hong Kong demonstrators have won their fight to stop a new extradition bill that would have allowed citizens to be tried for their crimes in China. But their mainland neighbour looms large and the battle isn't over. Audio

Wellington musician Lake South makes gorgeously lush electronic music with richly layered vocals and warm, fuzzy synths. He’s due to release his second album in August, and RNZ Music is proud to premiere the first single, ‘South Coast’.

Widescreen - Netflix wins on volume in this week’s new streaming TV, according to Dan Slevin.

David Hisco's departure as ANZ head over "business expenses" is the latest and possibly greatest scalp for former PM Sir John Key, Bernard Hickey writes.

Analysis - If first impressions are anything to go by, the New Zealand Rugby League team have made an encouraging start to their preparations for Saturday's Test against Tonga, writes Clay Wilson.

Tonight we have two shorter concerts recorded by RNZ in Nelson - Textural Landscapes & an organ recital of music by Mozart.

This time last year Wairarapa farmer John Hart was considering farming crickets as chicken feed, then he realised they were much more valuable as a protein source for people. Audio

More than 100 Bangladeshis who were trafficked to Vanuatu will start returning home this month. 

Surviving a childhood of neglect, abuse, being hit by a car, put in a prison camp, and living though the Civil Rights movement in Alabama, Lonnie Holley, now 69, turns his experiences into things of beauty and hope. Audio

Dunedin fertiliser company Ravensdown wants Harbour Rugby Club to look for new grounds, but after 130 years of rugby at Moller Park, the club is refusing to budge. Max Towle enters the scrum.

Wellington City Council, Victoria University and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra have taken a major step in the establishment of a national music centre.

Surviving a childhood of neglect, abuse, being hit by a car, put in a prison camp, and living though the Civil Rights movement in Alabama, Lonnie Holley, now 69, turns his experiences into things of beauty and hope. Audio

Widescreen - Rialto Channel will soon present four documentaries about the lives of four very different artists. Three of the films are utterly absorbing, says Dan Slevin.

Here is a mid-year round-up of the best songs of 2019 so far, eight of them, courtesy of the RNZ Music Song Crush crew. Soundtrack your solstice! Video, Audio

Any fish treated well can be delicious eating, says Wellington chef Tom Hutchison. He's challenging New Zealanders to reconsider eating fish that are more commonly used as bait. Audio

The Detail - Auckland Council has joined five other New Zealand local bodies to declare a climate change emergency - but is this just lip service being paid in election year?  Audio

A team of five boys from Francis Douglas Memorial College placed first in their division with a greenhouse cover made from recycled plastic water bottles, timber and bamboo. Audio