Features

Norma Waterson is one of the great voices of English song. From her recordings in the early 60s with family band The Watersons, the Yorkshire-born singer has long represented a paradigm of authenticity. Her daughter Eliza Carthy joins her for her first recordings in almost a decade.   Audio

Most new medicines are derived from chemicals produced by living things. The tricky part is locating those living things and working out what the chemicals they produce actually do. Audio

Tropical cyclones are crawling across the planet at a slower pace than they did decades ago, dragging out and amplifying their devastation.  Audio

A psychologist who worked on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island says the best treatment for the mental trauma refugees there are suffering is to resettle them in a safe country. Audio

Dozens of local councillors from a district in Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands Province have signed traditional rules for tribal fighting into law. Audio

A linguist from the University of Hawaii at Manoa says scientists have a lot to learn from Pacific languages. Audio

Jason Taumalolo has confirmed his allegiance to Tonga ahead of next weekend's Pacific Rugby League Test in Sydney.

Nick Tipping offers a full menu of masterpieces on RNZ Concert's weekday morning programme. You can check the schedules for today and tomorrow, right here.

Crowded House frontman Neil Finn will make his debut as part of Fleetwood Mac's new line-up at a Las Vegas festival in September.

A hidden world deep in the recesses of our bowel made up of trillions of microbes has a a big influence on our health - and its foundations are laid at the very moment of our birth. Audio

The Kiwi tenor brings both power and delicacy to Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder and the orchestra follows up with a compelling performance of Bruckner's huge Fourth Symphony. Audio

Studio 54 and orchestral music don’t usually go together, but this week the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is cranking out the platforms, flares and big hair as they bring disco hits alive. Video, Audio

The Auckland Symphony Orchestra and a group of DJs and vocalists including P Digsss from Shapeshifter return in 2018 to give some big dance hits a symphonic twist.

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's final album Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) was the first performed in an Australian Aboriginal language to go to number one on the Australian album charts. Audio

Analysis - In just one day the number two in the government has deployed three of the weapons that have sustained him in politics over four decades, writes Guyon Espiner.

Ten years ago George Street Orchard was just your average backyard - a typical residential garden with decorative shrubs and a lawn - now it's covered in fruit trees, berries and self-seeding greens. Audio, Gallery

"You will never have a Pacific person who doesn't have their homeland in the deepest tissues of their being so it's a special song."  Video, Audio

We lead the world in rubbish housing stock, says a planning expert, and as the weather gets colder, many New Zealanders face another winter in cold, damp homes. Audio

In 1970, when Simon and Garfunkel were the biggest music act in the world, Paul Simon chose to walk away. It was the act of a singular yet insecure man, says a new biography. Audio

The New York City-based artist will perform songs from the new album American Utopia on his first NZ tour since 2009.

Sound System: The Political Power of Music looks into the history of musical movements that have inspired political and social change and urges us all to "get stuck into that struggle.” Trevor Reekie speaks to the author Dave Randall. Video, Audio

Angie Meiklejohn moved to Auckland's Centrepoint commune when she was 15. She tells Kim Hill that participating in the upcoming documentary Angie has lifted her shame about what happened there. Video, Audio

In our first ever episode of Squeaky Bum Time, Max & Emile pick favourites with BBC correspondent Tim Vickery and RNZ Music's Yadana Saw rates the best and worst World Cup songs... and fashion statements. Audio

Queenstown singer-songwriter Holly Arrowsmith is back ahead of the release of her sophomore album, A Dawn I Remember. Holly joins Jesse Mulligan to talk about her new album, her upcoming tour, inspiration, the creative process and Taylor Swift. Video, Audio