Features

This week Pick and Mix continues the violin theme and looks at its music from different angles. Listen from 12 noon on RNZ Concert.

This year, Japan entered the Reiwa Era when Emperor Akihito relinquished the throne to his eldest son Naruhito. The name 'Reiwa' suggests a mood of peaceful nationalism, says Massey's Head of Japanese Studies. Audio

Every year 50,000 tonnes of food is chucked out by New Zealand cafes, restaurants and supermarkets – most of it still good to eat. Now, thanks to an app called Foodprint, people can buy this 'surplus' food at a discounted price. Audio

Today's Pentecost Sunday selection begins with 9th century plainchant and moves down through the ages to Bernadette Farrell's 20th century hymn Spirit of God, rest on your people. Audio

Do Gyung (Anna) Im from South Korea is the winner of this year's Michael Hill International Violin Competition. Second prize went to Eric Tsai (USA) and third prize to Jevgēnijs Čepoveckis (Latvia). Video, Audio

Invercargill contract milker Tangaroa Walker is diligently working his way up the dairy ladder towards farm ownership. He's also a keen rugby player, owns a local gym and manages an educational Facebook page. Video, Audio

Two Cents' Worth - The businessman turning the working week on its head tells Claire Crofton why he did it and why others should too. Audio

There's various platforms for activism and an honest, authentic treaty relationship is the pathway to addressing some of the country's biggest problems, Moana Maniapoto says. Audio

India remains the great hope of the world's endangered Bengal tiger population, tourism is bringing in money needed to protect their habitat. Audio, Gallery

Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is a hot mess but could only be a Gilliam film and that's a good thing, reports Dan Slevin.

Our Changing World - Eight years ago volunteers began translocating fluttering shearwater chicks to Wellington's Matiu Somes Island to establish what is now a growing seabird colony. Audio

A rare performance of J S Bach's Magnificat in D is conducted by one of the world's premier choral conductors, Stephen Layton.

To this day the American football obsessed town of Steubenville, Ohio occupies an uneasy place in the history of how we understand sexual assault.  Video, Audio

They chopped, they cooked, they bickered, they drank and camped up the TV screen; a book about Peter Hudson and David Halls has just won an Ockham New Zealand Book Award. Audio

Energetic, charming, and in control of the music’s demanding passage work, Morgan Pearse’s Figaro provided the heart of this likeable and light-hearted operatic romp. Peter Hoar was there for Upbeat.

An experiment using spider venom-infected fungi to control mosquitoes in Burkino Faso has been remarkably successful. Audio

The Detail - Raids by the Australian Federal Police on two journalists and the ABC offices in Sydney this week have shocked the Fourth Estate. Audio

Twice a year tawaki or Fiordland crested penguins make migrations of many thousands of kilometres to the south to feed at the Polar Front. Audio

Most of us can think of times when we've shouted at our child, ranted and potentially failed as 'Parent of the Year' contestants. Katy Gosset looks at why we lose our rag and what we can do to prevent it. Audio

It’s been 15 years since Scott Mannion released music with his duo The Tokey Tones. Now he’s back, and RNZ Music is stoked to the first to share his vid for single ‘You Are the Substance That I Can't Live Without...’. Video, Audio

Dairy farmers Mark and Jennifer McDonald began planting native trees on their Methven property in 2009, and now bird life is returning and water quality has improved. Audio, Gallery

Opinion - His 12 years as New Zealand Rugby weren't without incident, but on the whole, the good outweighed the bad, Hamish Bidwell writes.

"I think there are a lot of things an audience will forgive, but dishonesty is not one of them." Jury member of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, James Ehnes talks to Upbeat. Audio

Review - Herbie Hancock opened the Wellington Jazz Festival last night with a demonstration of just about all the things jazz can be, writes Nick Bollinger.