Features

A proposed law change would require coroners to consider tikanga Māori and other cultures when deciding if a whānau member can remain with a deceased person. Audio

Trudy Burrows could never have imagined the width and depth of poverty she's seen face-to-face at her community fridge & pantry in the Christchurch suburb of New Brighton.  Video, Audio

Gin Wigmore has a beautiful six-month-old boy, a brand new album – Ivory, and she's just started a 'girl gang' Video, Audio

This year LA-based Kiwi songwriter Chelsea Jade releases her first solo album – Personal Best. She shares her favourite songs and gives us some insight into her multi-faceted art. Video, Audio

Author and activist Charles Eisenstein says we live in a time of anxiety and separation. He’s proposing a new economic system to encourage a sense of community. Audio

On The Long Way Home, Bruce Hopkins ticks off the last of three famously fearsome challenges on the Te Araroa trail. Audio

The Portland-based band have announced a NZ tour for their new album Sex and Food this September.Here's a taste of what we're in for.

Nick Bollinger tunes in to two-man band - and ex Supergroove horn section - Hopetoun Brown. Audio

Emily Cornwall and her team of bakers have made 200 birthday cakes for South Auckland 5 year olds in less than a year. Audio, Gallery

An Auckland scientist has given up plane travel for a year as part of action he's taking to combat climate change. Audio

Nick Bollinger finds Zola Jesus (aka Nicole Hummel) veering between bombast and majesty on her fifth album. Audio

New Zealand could become home to exotic disease-carrying mosquitoes because of climate change and urbanisation, a study by masters student Sophie Hunt has found. Audio

Unknown Mortal Orchestra have just announced they'll be touring NZ in September and RNZ Music is excited to share a taste of what we're in for – a live version of 'If You're Going To Break Yourself' from the band's forthcoming album, Sex and Food. Full tour details below.

In 1981 Chris Lewis attempted to shoot Queen Elizabeth. Then, at least according to some, the authorities tried to cover it up. Audio

On a seven-hectare site north of the Gold Coast lies a modern Mount Olympus. Kate Newton visits.

Folk singer Joan Baez has a new album and a farewell tour scheduled for next year. William Dart surveys her career. Video, Audio

David Adam experimented with 'smart pills', brain zappers and memory-enhancing music for his new book The Genius Within. He shares his findings with Simon Morton. Audio

Johnny Dowd sings a few family favourites - as you've never heard them before. Nick Bollinger wonders whether it was worth the risk. Audio

The app WeCroak sends thousands of people around the world mortality-themed messages “at random times and at any moment, just like death”. Creator Hansa Bergwall tells us how he came up with the idea. Audio, Gallery

Nick Bollinger wonders whether the new album of family favourites by the alt-country musician was worth the risk. Audio

Shannon Haunui-Thompson explores whether a day to mark the New Zealand Wars will ever truly become a national event, on Insight. Video, Audio

Decades' worth of Laurie Anderson's work were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy's floodwaters in 2012, then a year later her husband Lou Reed died. The artist and musician processes her loss in a new album with the Kronos Quartet.  Audio

In December British pop star Dua Lipa was named the UK's most streamed woman of 2017 by Spotify, and when Bruno Mars brought his mammoth 24K Magic tour to New Zealand last month, he handpicked her as his supporting act. Video, Audio

Who are the main players, who protects your security and privacy best, and why does Apple keep sending alerts that your iCloud is full? Audio