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Cello lovers can feast their ears here with RNZ Concert's new collection of concertos, sonatas, variations and encores.

Most people lie, but we teach our children that lying isn't good. Psychologist Penny Van Bergen explains all about how children's lies are really a good thing, and how best to handle it. Audio

The New Zealand music scene will be put under the spotlight with a new study being conducted to determine the level of sexual harassment in the industry.

Wellington-based alt-pop artists girlboss join Bryan Crump live in the studio to play stripped back songs and talk about their pink cassettes.  Audio

A flawed 1961 study on methamphetamine's effect on pregnancy weight loss was the basis for the government's measures for contamination of state houses, toxicologist Leo Schep says. Audio

Fifty years ago Van Morrison released Astral Weeks, an album that has stayed in the ‘all-time great album’ lists ever since. Graeme Downes discusses Morrison's enduring masterpiece. Audio

Nick Tipping checks out music from jazz albums which have been rediscovered and released many years after they were recorded. Artists include Bill Evans, Coleman Hawkins, Andrew Hill, and Thelonious Monk. Audio

“It was also the beginning of the internet becoming the hub for music culture, as opposed to the rock concert: this was a sort of ritualistic place that people would go to find members of their tribe.” Audio

Football Fern Sarah Gregorius, joins RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson to talk about England's long-awaited penalty joy, Sweden's two defensive meatballs and Neymar's histrionics. Audio

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Following in the giant footsteps of Beethoven was not an easy task for Johannes Brahms. Inge van Rij discusses the issue of monumentalising in music. Audio

The New Zealand music scene will be put under the spotlight with a new study being conducted to determine the level of sexual harassment in the industry.

"It's all about heart and I try to make sure that if I can that people can use that heart ... the true meaning of community is just to be able to give."  Video, Audio, Gallery

A new study invites New Zealand and Australian musicians to complete a survey with the aim of discovering the nature and extent of harassment they are experiencing in the workplace.

Scholars and activists Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and Dr Elizabeth Kerekere on why old stories illustrating diverse sexualities and gender expressions in Te Ao Māori aren’t better known. Audio

Jackie Lee Morrison has worked at some of London's top eateries and is now wowing Wellington with her hand-made brownies. Audio, Gallery

Edward Castelow has been making music under the name Dictaphone Blues for around a decade now. His new EP Elastic Meditation is out now, so we invited Ed and his all-star band into the studio to play a few songs. Video, Audio

Singing to babies helps develop bonding between parent and child and encourages children to self-regulate. Lullabies like 'Twinkle, twinkle' are a great place to start.

As Pacific countries look to taxes and other regulations to battle an obesity crisis, they're coming up against stepped up lobbying from global giants like Coca-Cola, eager to make up for falling sales in western countries.

The person behind the movie Anote's Ark says the Kiribati government's criticism of his climate change documentary is based on political differences and is part of a crack down on media freedom.

The Solomon Islands has welcomed 1500 participants to this year's Melanesian Arts and Cultural Festival in Honiara.

Exploring indigenous feminism will be discussed by Pacific artist Ane Tonga this week.

There's concern in Papua New Guinea that the violent unrest in Hela and Southern highlands is spreading across the Highlands region. Audio

A Tongan is among 10 artists who have told their own stories of the stars by carving stone sculptures as part of a symposium for Matariki or Maori New Year celebrations in New Zealand. Audio

On the dawn of Mataraki a new generation of kapa haka exponents gathered in Rangitane, Palmerston North to battle it out at the National Secondary Schools Competition. Video, Audio