Features

Comedian, actor and impressionist Rob Brydon is in a good place, he tells Jesse Mulligan ahead of his visit to New Zealand in 2019 with I Am Standing Up. Video, Audio

Singer songwriter, Anthonie Tonnon is preparing for a summer tour - called Rail Land, in which he will travel by train through some of our most stunning  landscapes, and encouraging others to do the same to get to his gigs. Audio

Comedian Urzila Carlson grew up knowing what it's like to go without over Christmas and is the face of Auckland City Mission's appeal this year. Audio

Opinion - So the Sustainable Business Network puts out a 47-page report on New Zealand's plastic packaging system, and one line leaps out: recycling won't fix the plastic crisis. No kidding, writes Greg Roughan.

On her debut I Need To Start A Garden, Portland based songwriter Haley Heynderickx investigates self doubt, religious doubt and existentialism, but with a good dose of wry humour, and plenty of creepy crawlies. Audio

Pioneering filmmaker Geoff Murphy, has died aged 80. He is best remembered for Utu and the road movie with a special place in New Zealanders' affections, Goodbye Pork Pie. Audio

Bella Hristova and Michael Houstoun's complete set of Beethoven Violin Sonatas ends with the greatest of them all, the Kreutzer Sonata.

People sometimes say of politicians ‘they have an agenda’, and they are right. They do have an agenda. It’s very long and complicated, and planning it is like juggling burning Rubik’s Cubes. Audio

What happens if a local council has a debate on democracy and nobody reports it? That's what happened earlier this year at Hutt City Council. Mediawatch reports on the decline and fall of local body reporting. Audio

Following on the release of his debut solo album Otherland, Noah Slee has made a short film based on the album. And so, we Move to Otherlands film explores identity and movement across four different continent through dance with the Noah's album as the soundtrack.He speaks with Yadana Saw. Video, Audio

The World Health Organisation says the tripling of capacity at Coca-Cola Amatil's production line in Fiji highlights the need for continued action to reduce demand and intake of sugar-sweetened beverages. Audio

There has been a war of words in French Polynesia after the opposition's Oscar Temaru faced his first ever formal police interrogation. Audio

Widescreen - Netflix continues to release one great new film a week, says Dan Slevin.

California is now the world’s fifth largest economy and has a population of nearly 40 million, and a movement is gathering pace for it to secede from the US. Audio

The Solomon Islands prime minister Rick Hou says his government wants nothing to do with West Papua.

When Grammy award-winning operatic bass Jonathan Lemalu steps onto the stage in Wellington's Opera House next Monday evening, he will be accompanied by an orchestra of nearly 50 school children from Porirua.  Audio

Auckland band Leisure perform live with Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Hamish McKeich Audio

The humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières has likened the mental health situation on Nauru to that of victims of torture.

Nikki Mandow sends her son out to find the cheapest petrol between Wellington and Auckland, but ends up with some interesting insights into how we buy gas... and why we pay more than we have to. Audio

With a referendum on legalising cannabis in the offing, a new group is trying to give the 'yes' campaign a respectable face. Can they push through change? Russell Brown reports.

Voices - Revealing how 'Adil' ended up in NZ would put him and his family at risk, he says: the Chinese government has voice ID, facial ID, blood samples and DNA. He wants to speak out for those in jail, internment camps - or dead. Audio

The very best in Americana, alt country and blues music, hosted by Mark Rogers. Monday nights after the 11 o'clock news on RNZ National, 101 FM.

Koro Vaka'uta has been announced as RNZ Pacific's fourth News Editor - and is the first Pacific person to be appointed in the role.

Widescreen - Tall tales from the director commentaries of the troubled production of Mission: Impossible – Fallout makes the Blu-ray worth watching, Dan Slevin writes.