Features

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?

As the government pours money into Northland, are local communities reaping the rewards? Lois Williams investigates. Audio

RNZ Music is proud to present the new video from rising Kiwi-Rwandan rapper Blaze the Emperor. ‘Before’ is a jazz and soul-infused hip hop track with a vid that’s dripping with luxury.

It's a four-legged frenzy which unleashes sheer doggy delight. As Christchurch's Waltham Pool prepares to empty for the winter, it invites its canine community in for a one-off event - a pooch-only plunge.

To the casual observer, the melee in Parliament can look like a collapsed maul at the try line. Phil Smith wades in. Audio

New Zealand's biggest-selling jazz artist drops by our Auckland studio to play some hits from his groundbreaking 1994 album Shift Left. Video, Audio

In the podcast and book Ways of Hearing, Galaxie 500 drummer Damon Krukowski looks at how digital audio has changed how we relate to sound, music and even each other. He chats to Elliott Childs about his discoveries. Video, Audio

The Metropolitan Opera begins the mammoth journey of The Ring Cycle with 'Das Rheingold'. The high-tech staging by Robert Lepage makes it one of the most ambitious productions ever conceived for the operatic stage. RNZ Concert from 6pm.

Most of the men who've learnt to play instruments with members of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra in recent months have never had the opportunity to learn music before.