Features

French Polynesia's nuclear test veterans organisations are dismayed to find out that a planned change to the compensation law for test victims was quietly altered last year.

New Zealand composer Chris Artley has won first prize at a major international competition for organ music.

Mediawatch - The so-called “unruly tourists” were called all the names under the sun in a media pile-on that entertained and angered New Zealanders in equal measure. Audio

Insight: Rural GPs and nurses are thin on the ground and the pressure on those trying to provide life saving emergency help is even more evident over the summer. Tess Brunton reports. Audio

More refugees detained on Manus Island will die in the coming days unless they are taken out of Papua New Guinea for medical treatment, the Catholic church says.

Papua New Guinea's attorney-general has stressed the importance of public office-holders working within their mandated authority.

A music camp designed to bring more women into the industry is about to start in the capital.

Forty eight out of fifty kākāpō females on the southern islands have mated, nesting is well underway and the first AI has been carried out, all in episode 6 of the Kākāpō Files. Audio

Marlborough Sounds farmer Noel Moleta is reluctantly considering a switch back to conventional farming because of the high cost of non-chemical fertiliser and no premium for his organic lambs at the meatworks. Audio

The Frank Burkitt Band have won the 2019 Best Folk Artist Tui, which was presented at the Auckland Folk Festival this evening.

David Best helped establish the UK's first recovery-focused prison. "Why should we support recovery?" he asks Kim Hill, "Because it will lead to massive reductions in crime and massive increases in engagement and effective citizenship." Audio

Puccini's gun-slinging heroine is in love with a notorious outlaw. This Met Opera production stars Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann and Željko Lučić. Listen on RNZ Concert from 6pm.

Analysis - Having to reveal a politically-damaging failure wasn't the best way for the government to start 2019, writes Peter Wilson.

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

Music reviewer Jeremy Taylor has some remastered LP reissues from Kate Bush's back catalogue, a soul searching solo debut from Michael James Keane and tracks from the second album of Bristol band, Idles. Audio

How can health consumers separate reliable new advice from that based on bad science or spin from drug companies? Medical journalist and GP Mark Porter does his best to sort the wheat from the chaff on the podcast Inside Health. Audio

Writer Lana Lopesi joins academic Damon Salesa for a discussion about Pacific life and culture in the digital age – the subject of Lopesi's new book False Divides.

The weather in South Auckland has been good for potatoes and a hill farm near Blenheim that was green at Christmas is now brown. Find out how farmers are faring around the country in our Regional Wrap. Audio

Vicky and Ruairi Kelly's kitchen splash-back is a bullet-ridden metal sign dug up from the garden... and an enormous willow branch serves as a light fitting in their lounge. Audio, Gallery

Robyn Jacquiery presents a summer programme of listener requests. Audio

Composer Christopher Blake celebrates a 'special' birthday this month. Here's a recording of one of his more recent works. Video, Audio

Two Cents' Worth - New Zealand’s biggest salmon farmer has an audacious project to make aquaculture bigger than dairy. Audio

Share markets have been volatile lately, and RNZ listeners have been sharing their concerns about their KiwiSaver with personal finance advisor Mary Holm. Audio

Lana Lopesi talks with Associate Professor Damon Salesa about her book False Divides.