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Marta Zabaleta gives a riveting version of the Ritual Fire Dance to end her performance of 'Love the Magician'. It's your free classical download for November.

We used to have just one home 'phone, one TV and maybe one computer, now kids can connect with other people anywhere, from anywhere - so how do we help them navigate all that? Audio

"The Loneliest Girl continues Princess Chelsea’s examination of storybook love and, ever so sweetly, defaces each page" Musician Chelsea Nikkel talks through some of her greatest influences with Kirsten Johnstone for The Mixtape.  Video, Audio

A new breed of sheep debuting at the New Zealand Agricultural Show in Christchurch is proving very popular with the crowd.

Review - In Kiwi feature film Vermilion - despite the best efforts of Jennifer Ward-Lealand and the rest of a pretty good cast - there's nothing to have an opinion about one way or the other, writes Simon Morris. Video, Audio

RNZ Music’s Kirsten Johnstone is overwhelmed by the incredible display of musicianship, movement, and joy on stage at the Talking Heads frontman's TSB Arena show in Wellington last night.

In a show set to surprise his fans, comedy legend Bill Murray produced some genuinely funny moments at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington last night. RNZ Music's Elliott Childs went along. Video, Audio

A "paradigm shift" in agriculture can massively boost farmers' profits and crop diversity, curb pests, and eliminate the need for tilling, pesticides and herbicides, scientist and farmer Jonathan Lundgren tells Kim Hill. Audio

Our Changing World - New Zealand has a growing population of older drivers and an important issue is 'when do they give up driving?' Audio

Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is one of the most celebrated albums in popular music. An exhaustive new 6-disc set lets us sit in on its construction. Audio

Analysis - Although its leader was severely tested in the Jami-Lee Ross saga, the real plot twist for National doesn't lie here, but in the dry prose of Treasury, Stats NZ and the Reserve Bank, writes Guyon Espiner.

"Oh my god, the look was everything: big hair, big, big, big hair - I'm bringing my biggest hair to New Zealand!" The Pointer Sisters (Bonnie, Ruth, Anita and June) were one of the most successful music acts of the 1970s and early 1980s and they're coming here this summer.  Video, Audio

Restaurateurs are facing chronic staff retention problems because of tightened immigration laws, an Auckland business owner says, but a hospitality worker says low wages are to blame.  Audio

Milton asked for “the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” He omitted 'to vote', but he was speaking in Parliament, so maybe that’s a given.

Depressed, alcoholic comedian James Nokise invites Hayley Holt into his mental health safe place for a finger-licking chat about drinking, dancing, getting sober and staying happy. Audio

Thousands of Morehu (Rātana followers) descended upon Rātana Pa on November 8th, to commemorate one hundred years of the Maramatanga.Te Ahi Kaa looks at one aspect of the faith, the church's famous Nga Reo Rātana brass bands. Video, Audio

RNZ's Kirsten Johnstone is overwhelmed by the incredible display of musicianship, movement, and joy on stage at the Talking Heads frontman's show in Wellington last night.

The latest dengue outbreak in Wallis and Futuna has claimed its first life with an eight-year-old girl dying after her condition deteriorated and she was flown to New Caledonia's medical centre. Audio

Government officials from Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, and Chile will this week meet with the British Museum in London to negotiate the return of a 1,000-year-old statue.

Weightlifting Fiji has rejected claims by Commonwealth Games champion Eileen Cikamatana that she was told to relocate to Suva to work under a new national head coach.

The New Zealand Treasury says it will work to reduce barriers in education, health, housing and employment for Pacific peoples in the country.

Food industry groups spend massive amounts on research to support health claims producing biased science, an American researcher says. Audio

Tiny houses on wheels are wonderful, cosy, romantic, comfortable spaces, Kiwi actor and YouTube star Bryce Langston says, but he happily accepts they're not for everyone. Video, Audio, Gallery