Features

Ibrahim Omer is an Eritrean refugee and a spokesperson for Living Wage Aotearoa, spreading the word about how important it is for refugees to earn a living wage. Audio

Watch - After a 12 year wait, New Zealanders finally have a chance to see the multi-awarding winning play War Horse - without travelling overseas. Video, Audio

RNZ Music is proud to be the first to share the new single and video from Northland musician Troy Kingi. ‘Babylon Grows’ is from his new album Holy Colony Burning Acres, which is due out in July.

The Detail - It's more than 100 days since the last White House press briefing. Is this the end of a 90-year-old institution?  Audio

A new art gallery in South Auckland is promising to promote contemporary Pacific art, to work closely with its community and to encourage collectors by offering art at affordable prices. Audio

Good Omens tries to trade on an affable relationship between an angel and demon but they, and the show, run out of gas before the end, says Dan Slevin.

Jan Hellriegel's new album, autobiography, and podcast come with the eyebrow-raising title, Sportsman of the Year. William Dart looks into the mystery. Video, Audio

Eyewitness - When a routine search warrant goes suddenly wrong, an ordinary man becomes a hero. Anneke Smith looks back on the Napier siege of ten years ago. Audio

German violinist Carolin Widmann talks to Upbeat ahead of her first performance with the NZSO tonight. Video, Audio

One of New Zealand’s most revered bands is celebrated in a new film. Herbs: Songs of Freedom charts the pioneering Pacific-reggae band’s journey from its roots in the social activism of the 1980s. Video, Audio

A new law has triggered fears Cook Islands landowners could be forced to sell property for big projects in a return to the colonial days of property confiscations.

The head of the World Health Organisation in Papua New Guinea says the government is surprised by the progress in a mass vaccination programme to tackle polio, measles and rubella.

Callie Shell has been photographing the Obamas since 2004 and her new book collects images of the power couple on the road to, and during, Barack Obama’s presidency. Audio, Gallery

Why is New Zealand’s productivity poor and why does it matter? Economist Paul Conway has been invited by the World Bank to talk in Turkey next week about New Zealand's productivity problem. Audio

The Detail - The government has stepped in to clean up the vast West Coast rubbish spill, after local authorities ran out of cash to finish the job. But what's being done to stop it happening elsewhere?  Audio

RNZ Music is proud to present the new single and video from British-born Nigerian/New Zealand hip hop artist Unchained XL.

Our Changing World - A panel of five experts debate what it will take to turn the idea of a predator-free New Zealand by 2050 from a dream into a reality. Audio

Facebook says it will roll out a digital currency called Libra next year, cryptocurrency specialist Campbell Pentney discusses the implications with Kathryn Ryan. Audio

Our visit to the sound archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision this week takes us back to 1986 and how we heard about the Chernobyl disaster here in New Zealand. Video, Audio, Gallery

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