Features

To celebrate the new documentary film in cinemas now, Anika Moa, Samuel Scott (Phoenix Foundation), Anthonie Tonnon and Clicks (Anna Coddington and Dick Johnson) re-interpret favorite songs by iconic Dunedin band The Chills.

A young New Zealander entered a Japanese hospital in psychosis. He left braindead. His grieving mother is fighting for change. By Susan Strongman.

Small Island Big Song is an album that unites indigenous musicians from seafaring cultures across the Pacific & Indian Oceans. Video, Audio

'Choirs on Fridays' continues with Passio - a work conceived by the late Jack Body and performed at Auckland Arts Festival. Audio

Kiwi violinist Ben Morrison will return to the newly restored Christchurch Town Hall this weekend. These days he's a first violinist in the Vienna Philharmonic. Audio

The local government of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands has bought hundreds of acres of land in Hawaii as a climate change bolthole.

Water supplies in the Solomon Islands capital, Honiara, are being increasingly affected by logging upstream from the catchment.

Indonesia has a new ambassador in neighbouring Papua New Guinea.

The Cook Islands shadow police minister says the government, police and border control need to wake up to presence of methamphetamine in the country.

There are 25.5 million refugees registered with the United Nations but less than one percent get resettled. What's it like to be a refugee in New Zealand? Audio

Our Changing World - The fungal disease aspergillosis has caused the deaths of three kākāpō chicks in the past week. This is in addition to an adult kākāpō which died from the same disease two weeks ago. Audio

The Detail - Since its formation in the late 1990s, Destiny Church has floated in and out of the news cycle. Audio

It's New Zealand Music Month, but how much do you really know about Aotearoa's musical goings-on? Take our NZ Music quiz to find out.

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has praised Fiji as a strong committed partner in peacekeeping and for taking a leading role in the battle against climate change.

Staff and students at the University of the South Pacific gathered today to demand greater transparency from the university's administration.

Leaders from the Pacific's Freely Associated States are to make a joint official visit to the White House for the first t

The leader of the National Federation Party Biman Prasad has attacked the Fiji government over its ban on exiled scholar Brij Lal.

A Tongan-born student has won the inaugural Teresia Teaiwa Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship in Pacific Studies.

Dangerous snorkelling tours are taking place in Rarotonga's Avaavaroa passage, the Cook Islands Water S Audio

We invited listeners to Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan to send in their favourite songs of the sea. We've taken the most popular picks as well as the ones we like the best and here they are: Video, Audio

RNZ is proud to present the new video from Wellington trio Hans Pucket. ‘Comfort’ is the third and final vid from their excellent debut album Eczema, which came out this time last year. 

Wylie Gustafson has possibly the most famous yodel in the world - the three second Yahoo! yodel - but he never expected he would need to hire a lawyer because of it. Video, Audio

Widescreen - With the third film about to hit cinemas, Dan Slevin, recommends the John Wick franchise to fans of cool cinema.

Mahan Esfahani plays Poulenc's Harpsichord Concerto with the APO and the orchestra plays Ravel, Bizet and Dukas. Audio