Features

Thomas Gaynor was awe-inspired by the great organ at Notre-Dame in Paris last year and recalls the remarkable acoustics of the cathedral.

It's 30 years since thousands of Liverpool fans poured into a stadium in Sheffield to watch their team play Nottingham Forest in a FA cup semi-final match. Almost 100 of them never made it home. Audio

Kākāpō Files - With 75 living chicks and the final three eggs due to hatch this week, the 2019 kākāpō breeding season is set to be the longest on record. Audio

Tom Scott’s Avantdale Bowling Club; Northland thrash metallers Alien Weaponry; trailblazing 90s group Moana and the Moahunters; and local singer/song writing legend Bernie Griffen were all honoured at tonight’s Taite Music Prize.

Game of Thrones mania is upon us, as the final season premiered on television around the world yesterday. If you're wondering what the fuss is about, RNZ's resident GoT expert takes you through a crash course. Video, Audio

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A highlight of each Adam Chamber Music Festival in Nelson is the 'Bach by Candlelight' concert in the cathedral. Monique Lapins, Andrew Goodwin, Ian Rosenbaum and others present timeless music by Bach.

Sex positivity is the idea that all sex, provided it's healthy and consensual, is good. But what happens when a complicated theoretical idea like gets packaged up for the mainstream? Audio

Paris is weeping, after the 850-year-old gothic centrepiece of the Île de la Cité went up in flames earlier this morning, but an architectural historian says it will rise again. Audio, Gallery

Moana & The Moahunters will receive the 'Classic Record' Award for their 1993 debut album, Tahi at the 2019 Taite Music Prize awards tonight, Here's some of Moana's story. Video, Audio

Working on the premise that women are not small men, an exercise physiologist and former triathlete has spent the last two decades researching female physiology and high performance sport. Audio

They rang out to communicate the end of World War 2, and to commemorate those who lost their lives in the 2015 Paris terror attacks. Today the bells of Notre-Dame are silent.

With the date for the Solomon Islands parliament to elect a prime minister expected to be announced this week, MPs may be trading more than just horses, writes RNZ Pacific's Koroi Hawkins.

Bob Marley played his first and only New Zealand concert 40 years at Western Springs.Gareth Shute looks back on that visit and the seismic effect it had on this country’s relationship with reggae music. Video, Audio

As part of their 2016 European tour NZ Youth Choir sang during a mass at Notre-Dame de Paris.

Today's news media are forced to make tough calls about the grim content created by terrorists and extremists. Roxane Cohen Silver has studied the effects of extreme images - and what the media need to know. Audio

Chris Reid started out as a winemaker in Martinborough and making gin was a little side project, although as Reid says, “it accidentally became my full-time job”. Audio, Gallery

Bob Marley played his first and only NZ concert on Monday, April 16 1979, at Auckland’s Western Springs. Gareth Shute looks back on that visit and the seismic effect it had on this country’s relationship with reggae music. Video, Audio

Olivier Latry talks with Upbeat about his work at Notre-Dame in Paris, during his visit to NZ last year.

A reconstructed Neanderthal was disabled and quite old when he died showing Neanderthals cared for their old and frail, a paleoanthropologist says. Audio

Karen Gomyo brings her star-power to Beethoven's only Violin Concerto and then the NZSO plays Sibelius' Lemminkäinen Suite.

In 17th century London the gilded rich of the day stuffed their palaces with ostentatious possessions to show off their wealth, perhaps the most bling of all was Queen Henrietta Maria, the French wife of King Charles I. Audio

A mix of younger and established local composers including four women have been selected for the 2019 NZ Composer Sessions.

For the last four years, a small local team of journalists has published NZ and Pacific stories for the multimedia outlet. Colin Peacock looks at why that's all over now. Video, Audio

With school holidays and Easter travel ahead, we've found a bunch of songs about New Zealand and added them to a map... Road trip, anyone?