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A leading British boxing pundit believes there is no doubt Joseph Parker is a better boxer than Anthony Joshua.

Iraqi oud composer Rahim AlHaj performs 'Eastern Love' live for RNZ Music at WOMAD 2018 in New Plymouth.

It's 100 years since the death of the revered French composer who created a new sound world in classical music. Influenced by poets, painters, nature and eastern sonorities, his music's been described as 'an impressionist marvel, it trembles like a mass of shimmering pointillist particles'.

Simon Morris looks at two films about historic figures who’ve often been sidetracked by history. And once again a movie based on a popular video-game proves a loser on the big screen. Video, Audio

Facebook has lost billions of dollars in value, because of something about data. Confused? Here's what it means, and what could come next. Audio

Tech giant Google is splashing out some of its substantial profits on new tools to ease the news media's problems at a time when 'big tech' is under big pressure worldwide.

Iraqi oud composer Rahim AlHaj performs 'Eastern Love' live for RNZ Music at WOMAD 2018.

Sir Lloyd Geering, the controversial theologian famously charged with heresy, has turned 100, and finds there's a lot to be optimistic about. Audio

More of the dangerous opioid fentanyl is being imported into the country and has now turned up at a music festival, The Wireless reports.

If Hillary Clinton had been more like Jacinda Ardern she would be American president today, says political consultant and pollster Frank Luntz. Audio

Whether it's Yoko in the studio, Art on location, Marvin’s messy divorce, the Gallaghers’ brotherly hate or Prince’s corporate enslavement, some great music comes from feuds. Audio

William Dart goes on a digression about the many versions of Burt Bacharach's song 'Walk On By', before looking at the musician Kramer and his new album of Brill Building covers. Video, Audio

Te Papa’s biggest revamp in two decades gives a third more space in the national museum to art. Does it do justice to the nation's art collection? Audio, Gallery

The Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr has been knighted for his services to music 21 years after his sole surviving former bandmate, Paul McCartney.

Today's hip-hop 'battles' have interesting similarities with the tradition of Samoan oratory, says music producer Anonymouz. Video, Audio

Pacific Trade Invest New Zealand is launching a new market to showcase how businesses from the region are stepping up globally.

Most weeds are ineffective as a living green mulch to protect desired plants as they compete with with them for nutrients, water and sunlight, ecological scientist Colin Meurk says. Audio, Gallery

When it comes to Ed Sheeran there are two positions: passionate defence, as exhibited by millions of devoted ‘Sheerios’, or intense vitriol. Melody Thomas attempts to understand the hatred and the appeal.

Bruce Hopkins solves an age-old mystery while traversing the Richmond Range on The Long Way Home. Audio

What is consent and how do you know when it's been given? Episode 2 of The REAL Sex Talk explores what 'enthusiastic and keen' might look and sound like.

From the archives: here you can enjoy all of the sonnets of Shakespeare, read by New Zealanders.

Sociologist Joanna Kidman tells Te Ahi Kaa why people at first protested the 2015 petition calling for the NZ Land Wars to be commemorated. Audio

The president of the Marshall Islands Hilda Heine says building on the ingenuity of the Marshalls' outer islands women will be one of the keys for the country to cope with climate change.

Our watered-down synthetic drug law failed to prevent 25 deaths last year. Mava Enoka investigates whether an upcoming amendment will help.