Features

Singer and actress Doris Day died earlier this month, at 97. William Dart pays tribute to a true star. Video, Audio

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In today's programme a Jewish cantor and a Methodist minister join forces, we've settings of Psalms 34 and 148, and there are hymns by New Zealanders Shirley Murray and David Burt. Audio

Five New Zealand composers have created new electro-acoustic works for the custom-built SoundDome, a 25-loudspeaker instrument designed for composing with 3D space.

Tonight's chamber music concert includes the première of Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello by Kiwi composer Natalie Hunt.

Thomas Goss reveals that deep in the DNA of Mozart's greatest works is a sense of emotion and conflict that comes directly from JS Bach. Audio

The Rt Hon Helen Clark speaks with Fair Play’s Zoë George about what it takes to step up.

Nick presents Kiwi jazz for NZ Music Month! Nick features Whirimako Black, Trevor Coleman, Charmaine Ford, and bass players Tom Botting and Tom Dennison.

Brando taught him to act, Sinatra taught him to sing, Monroe 'made him a man' and Escobar wanted him dead. Listen to the extraordinary life story of Gianni Russo. Audio, Gallery

Tenor Jared Holt joins the New Zealand String Quartet for a concert including the première of a song cycle by Janet Jennings.

A new TV series has just launched, it's a mystery, but perhaps not the type we're used to. It involves three circus lions, Rotorua and a missing poodle.  Audio

Keanu Reeves' dog-loving hitman is up against even more assassination in the latest John Wick film. It's undeniably entertaining, but hopefully future installments will give female characters more to do, says Simon Morris. Video, Audio

Check in at midday to find out about the best-selling albums in NZ and around the world this week.

Samoan-New Zealand photographer Edith Amituana'i focuses on her majority-migrant West Auckland community in the new exhibition Double Take. Dominic Godfrey takes a walk through. Audio

For NZ Music Month we're celebrating some of the enduring Kiwi albums that came out in 1994, including ones by Supergroove, Dave Dobbyn, The Mutton Birds, Strawpeople and Richard Nunns and Hirini Melbourne.

Music critic Nick Bollinger has spent thousands of hours listening to hundreds of albums over many years. Here he talks about some of the very best records from Aotearoa.

Two women, two classics, two free downloads. Enjoy the music of Scheherazade and Elvira Madigan courtesy of RNZ Concert.

Enjoy a celebration of The Beatles in A Strange Days Night - songs by the Fab Four performed by an array of local artists live at The Auckland Town Hall.

'Choirs on Fridays' continues this week with the NZ Secondary Students' Choir singing a delightfully mixed programme in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington.

Steve Hansen's unwavering faith in Sonny Bill Williams being fit for the Rugby World Cup is both admirable and concerning, Hamish Bidwell writes.

In 'The Only Way is Up' bass-baritone Sir Donald McIntyre reflects on his life on the greatest opera stages of the world. Editor Heath Lees and colleague Simon O'Neill talk to Upbeat. Audio

Insight - The partner of a man sexually assaulted while in the army in the 1970s is demanding the attack be investigated. Video, Audio

The Pacific music industry was in full celebration tonight, at the 15^th annual Pacific Music Awards, where Her Majesty Queen Sālote Tupou lll was posthumously honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Pacific analysts say a meeting between US President Donald Trump and the Freely Associated States has ignored climate change.

Around 300 people on Papua New Guinea's Duke of York group are without homes after their houses were destroyed in last week's major earthquake.