Features

'We get great feedback about him. It’s nice he’s doing his music and clearly loving it,' says the Mall manager where busker Richard Taylor plays Bach, folk tunes and Metallica.

Join Tom Scott performing hip hop and future soul songs from @Peace & The Plutonium Noise Symphony in 2014, as well as thr jazzy hip hop of his latest project Avantdale Bowling Club.

Insight - The internet has helped those wanting to spread extremism and in the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attacks anonymous forums have come under scrutiny. Max Towle investigates. Audio

'Choirs on Fridays' continues with the NZ Youth Choir conducted by David Squire singing spiritual music, ancient and contemporary, from New Zealand and around the world.

Versatile double bass player Eric Scholes is playing a concerto by Carl Dittersdorf with NZ Barok this weekend. Audio

New Zealand is still in the top ten for global press freedom but our media, in the light of the Christchurch attacks, needs to be vigilant against incursions on their freedoms, writes Colin Peacock. Audio

An early childhood teacher's dream of writing a whole lot of waiata, and performing them to early childhood centres and primary schools around the country is coming true despite her untimely death. Audio, Gallery

You're probably over all the stories about e-scooters, but there's more to them than clogged sidewalks and crashes. Horace Dediu is an independent expert on "micromobility", a term he coined for small vehicles. Audio

Wellington's celebrity cat 'Mittens' has turned up two days early for a curtain call at the Michael Fowler Centre.

When Jamali Maddix takes to the stage, expect brutally honest material on the state of society and personal tales of hate and confrontation from his travels around the world. Video, Audio

Why is George Orwell’s 1984 still relevant in 2019? Jesse Mulligan takes a deep dive into the novel with Melbourne University’s Robert Hassan. Audio

Our Changing World - ESR is using a laser to scan crime scenes, allowing police and juries to 'fly through' the scene long after the event. Video, Audio

In the middle of the Glastonbury Festival sat an event reminiscent of the Las Vegas Strip - butterfly trainers, acrobatic strippers, Fat Boy Slim dressed as a bumble bee. It was Lost Vagueness. Audio, Gallery

Wellington's celebrity cat 'Mittens' has turned up two days early for a curtain call at the Michael Fowler Centre.

The legendary singer Scott Walker died recently. William Dart pays tribute to a singer hailed as everything from existential chansonnier to avant-garde pioneer. Video, Audio

A new documentary looks at the turbulent life of Martin Phillips, leader of the legendary The Chills. "While we were still riding this wave, it hit the rocks", he says. Video, Audio

Metal fan and member of the local band Devilskin, Paul Martin, explains the appeal of head banging music  \m/. Video, Audio

Christian Kluxen conducts the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in a first piano concerto, a first symphony and an Australasian première.

It seems we’re all being Marie Kondoed to within an inch of our lives at the moment, but messiness isn’t necessarily bad, the author of a new book says. Audio

Six years ago Human Rights Watch launched a campaign to ban the development, production and use of so-called killer robots. The campaign is spearheaded by New Zealander Mary Wareham, Audio

The Kākāpō Files - The death of Hoki from a fungal infection brings the number of adult kākāpō to 146, while there are 77 chicks. Audio

RNZ Music is proud to present the debut single and video from Wellington-based folk-pop songwriter Claudia Jardine… starring a cute pug called Frank.

For more than 100 years calorie counting has dominated diet advice, but it's woefully inaccurate, misleading and unscientific, says journalist Peter Wilson. Audio

There's been a resurgence in infectious diseases we thought we'd got rid of. The Detail speaks to a researcher studying who anti-vaxxers are, and how to win them back. Audio