Features

Legendary country band The Warratahs are taking to the road to celebrate 30 years since they released their debut album The Only Game In Town. Trevor Reekie spoke to Barry Saunders about how to group got to where they are today. Video, Audio

New Zealand's most prestigious songwriting awards take place in Auckland next month. Nick Bollinger gives us a rundown of what they're all about.

Episode 9: Bus driver Wendy feels under pressure to go quickly to meet timetables and also needs to concentrate really hard for hours to avoid hitting pedestrians. Video

Professional viola player and radio presenter Eddie Ayres struggled with depression for years until realising in his 30s that he was a transgender man. Audio

Somi Kim and Natalie Lin join Ashley Brown of NZTrio for the first of the 2018 Loft Series.

The Samoa Rugby Union is set to name former Blues Assistant, Steve Jackson, as the new coach of the national team.

Well-known classics will be joined by big names, circus performers, kiwi hits, BBC’s Planet Earth and music inspired by Roald Dahl for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s 2019 season. Video, Audio

Twenty-five years of bird counts have revealed an unexpected consequence from the creation of the predator-free Zealandia Sanctuary, Alison Ballance reveals. Audio

New Zealanders should use sunscreen even on the shortest, darkest day in winter to prevent skin damage and cancer, the co-author of a new study, NIWA's Richard McKenzie, says. Audio

Last Saturday, nearly 400 people wandered sandy beaches, clambered around rocks and fossicked under roadside bushes in a massive rubbish clean-up along the much-loved Wellington coastline. Audio

After some feedback from our audience, RNZ Concert staff share their personal reflections about the women who have been heroes to them in their musical life.

The early 1990s, musicians, artists, film-makers and even politicians led a pop culture renaissance in Britain, which we now call "Britpop". Audio

The songs still seem to pour out of Paul McCartney - good, bad and indifferent. Nick Bollinger considers what his latest set adds to the best-known songbook in pop. Audio

Farmers in the Te Waihora / Lake Ellesmere community are becoming environmental stewards as they learn the indigenous practices of mahinga kai, ECan's cultural land management advisor Mananui Ramsden says. Video, Audio

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's new exhibition will feature recordings of 125 incredible NZ women including Lorde, WWI doctor Agnes Bennett and one of the first openly lesbian Māori feminists Professor Ngāhuia Te Awekotuku. Audio

About 400 people gathered in Auckland's Aotea Square this morning to celebrate the 125th anniversary since women were granted the vote. Audio

Episode 7: Vanessa and Linda love their jobs, and know they're making a huge difference to kids who need them - but the pay they get is just not enough to live on.  Video

Moana Maniapoto, Victoria Kelly and Cherie Mathieson talk with Karyn Hay about the role of women in the music industry to mark the 125th-anniversary women's suffrage. Audio

Podcast - In this first episode of the suffrage podcast by Sonia Sly, we visit the grave of Mary Jane Carpenter, whose name is the very first of the more than 30,000 that appear on the petition delivered to Parliament. Audio

For Suffrage Day, Amanda Brown shakes a stick at some female conductors who have blazed their own trails.

This June, PNG became one of the few countries to buck an international trend towards eradicating polio - an incurable virus which causes paralysis in children. Experts say the return of the disease was years in the making.

The future for New Zealand women in music looks bright if these young trailblazers are anything to go by.

From English composer Ethel Smyth hurling rocks to Australian conductor Simone Young leading the notoriously conservative Vienna Philharmonic...

Victoria Kelly, a staunch advocate for a stronger female presence in the music industry, is one of the women composers NZTrio are presenting in their concert 'Braid' to mark Suffrage 125. Audio