Features

Your new classical podcast for February is Symphony No 5 by Mahler, played by the NZSO with conductor Edo de Waart. Its famous Adagietto has been used for movies, ice-skating & figure-skating, famous funerals, TV series and perfume ads.

Every Friday on Jesse Mulligan's show, we feature a live session with a local act for our musical segment NZ Live. Video, Audio

Zach Condon pulled his old Italian organ out of retirement to recreate that sound which “wraps you up like a blanket” on Beirut's new album Gallipoli. Video, Audio

The Kiwi designers of the Ubco utility bike reckon if it can cope with conditions on an NZ dairy farm it can cope with anything. They're now shipping bikes to the USA, UK and to Australia. Audio

People keen to check out the biggest kapa haka festival in the country are being warned to beware of scalpers. Carl Ross, chief executive of Te Matatini speaks to Susie Ferguson. Audio

Julia Deans and Anika Moa join the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra for a crossover concert of favourites.

New Zealand has 15,000kms of beach and it is hugely varied. Historian Grant Morris of Victoria University looks back at when a beach holiday became the norm Audio

Fair Play - The Under 17 Football Ferns should win the team of the year at the Halbergs, according to a number of high profile sportswomen. Audio

A piano recital featuring music by Debussy, Chopin and Rachmaninov at the 2018.Kerikeri International Piano Competition.

Dr Nergis Mavalvala is a Pakistani-American quantum astrophysicist who was part of the team that first observed gravitation waves (ripples in the fabric of space time) in a landmark discovery in 2016. Audio

Kiwi pop duo Broods join us to talk about their new album; we speak to American indie rock/world music group Beruit have a new record out too; Supergroove's Karl Steven drops in for the Mixtape; Christchurch's Pickle Darling is on the line to talk about his new one; and heaps more!

Analysis - National hits the ground running with a new tax policy as the government decides to cut its losses and scrap KiwiBuild's interim targets, Peter Wilson writes.

Opinion - From collecting low-grade bootlegs of Let It Be out-takes to directing a brand new Beatles film, Peter Jackson's obsession with the Fab Four is genuine and deep-seated, writes Nick Bollinger.

American-Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright speaks to Jim Mora ahead of his upcoming dates at the Auckland Town Hall and the Wellington Opera House in March. Audio

In the first new programme of New Horizons for the new year, a newly refreshed William Dart features American singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash and her new album She Remembers Everything. Video, Audio

Secret Islands Quintet's soulful sound assimilates the North American jazz tradition into an Aotearoa New Zealand context. Audio

At the peak of the opioid crisis in the United States, 250 million scripts were written every year. After hundreds of thousands of deaths, there's still no end in sight. Audio

Manus Islanders want refugees detained there by Australia to leave even though their departure could cause job losses, the Catholic dean of Manus Province says.

Mediawatch - If ever the weather deserves to hog the headlines, it’s when record high temperatures roll in and a bona fide heatwave has us in its grip. But did the media over-egg the story? Audio

 Wetlands are a little-known preventative for climate change and they have been described as the Earth's kidneys. World Wetlands Day this Saturday aims to highlight this vital ecosytem. Audio, Gallery

An international project to mark Beethoven's 250th will see his 'Ode to Joy' performed in the languages of many countries, including Aotearoa New Zealand.

Guam is facing a crisis in its civilian construction sector due to a labour shortage caused by new US federal restrictions on Filipino workers.

Veteran Flying Fijians wingers Timoci Nagusa and Nemani Nadolo have announced their retirement from international rugby, just over seven months out from the Rugby World Cup.

Divorce is one of the most distressing experiences we can have as human beings, and yet we know very little about why it happens and how to prevent it. Audio