Features

Mediawatch - Newshub’s early reveal of Simon Bridges’ big bill for travel created a political drama, but the handling of the leak also sparked a pushback from some pundits and others in the media. Audio

The Internet's post-hip-hop soul songs start on the dance floor then ease gradually towards the bedroom, says Nick Bollinger. Audio

Eight years in the making, Dudley Benson's Zealandia is a New Zealand album like no other. Nick Bollinger unpacks its music and its messages. Audio

The governor of Papua New Guinea's capital has defended his promotion of yoga and a campaign to make Port Moresby a healthier city. Audio

There are only 3000 Pacific people in Dunedin, in New Zealand's south, but an innovation workshop for Pasifika entrepreneurs there has heard loud calls for more opportunities and support.

Pacific islands are being urged to consider following Hawaii and ban certain sunscreens to protect their coral reefs. Audio

Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is asking private firms to consider innovative ways to reduce the use of plastic.

The alt-right movement is fundamentally white-nationalist misogynists with a conspiracist mindset, author and right-wing extremism expert David Neiwert tells Kim Hill. Audio

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May won't hold the post by the end of the year and her 'Chequers' solution won't fly, leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage tells Kim Hill. Audio

Multi-genre Latin music group Latinaotearoa have just finished a raucous tour of Australia and New Zealand in the wake of their recently released third album Influencis et Collabis Audio

TVNZ has removed a documentary that claims Celts settled New Zealand thousands of years before the arrival of Māori from its on demand service following a query from RNZ's Mediawatch programme.  Audio

'The Celebrated Chop Waltz' — aka the only piece most of us can play on the piano — was written in 1877 by a 16 year-old British girl. Upbeat explores some rather adventurous variations of the classic.

West Auckand teenager William Rakena was wagging school and committing crime, before his aunty and dance turned his life around. He tells his own story in the documentary Both Worlds.

Barely concealed misogyny — such as the recent Facebook abuse of a LGBT rights advocate and sexual abuse survivor — surfaces online every day, writes Anna Connell.

Auckland band White Chapel Jak are the winners of Jesse Mulligan's Battle of the Cover Bands. They visit our Auckland studio to put their own special twist on some of your favourite songs. Video, Audio

Devilskin sell out shows all over the globe and are one of New Zealands biggest independent bands. In the build up to their latest nationwide tour Paul and Jenny from the band join us for the RNZ Mixtape. Video, Audio

Auckland band White Chapel Jak are the winners of Jesse Mulligan 1-4's Battle of the Cover Bands. They play some of your favourite songs with their own special twist in our Auckland studio.

It's thought there could be several thousand New Zealand babies born every year with brains damaged in the womb by alcohol; Insight investigates. Video, Audio

Isaiah Tour's parents tell him he used to speak Chinese, but he can't remember it. The 26 year old explores with his friends how being English speakers affects their relationships with their Asian families.

At 54, Olympic equestrian and dairy farmer Matthew Grayling hopes he and his horse Trudeau still have some international events in their future — as long as they don't coincide with calving season. Audio

It is 100 years since the British Parliament passed the Representation of the People Act, which meant for the first time women over the age of 30 were given the right to vote. The Proms celebrates with works by women composers including suffragette Dame Ethyl Smyth.

Christy Valentine is the head of development at Soulsville Foundation, an academy for singers and musicians in Aretha Franklin's childhood neighbourhood in Memphis Tennessee. She spoke with producer Bridget Burke, just after news of Aretha's death broke this morning. Video, Audio

Outspoken hip-hop MC Tom Scott is back with a new jazz-infused project called Avantdale Bowling Club. Tony Stamp finds out what he's been up to and how such an ambitious album came to be. Video, Audio

When Dawn Bendall was getting chemotherapy for breast cancer, one of the few foods she could tolerate was duck eggs. She and her husband Glen farm 383 White Pekin ducks in Taranaki. Audio