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Loyle Carner started his career in hip hop aged seventeen, as a way to help his mum pay rent. Six years later he's been nominated for The Mercury Prize and two Brit Awards, overcoming ADHD and dyslexia in the process. Video, Audio

When Richard and Helen Dorresteyn started out in 2006 to establish a buffalo dairy farm it was an unprecedented venture. Audio

The stories of pioneering women such as Kate Sheppard are under represented on Wikipedia, and a group of historians is trying to right that gender imbalance.

VIDEO: Watch Robbie Williams share his thoughts on Dunedin, the weather, Tami Neilson, sexuality and tiger undies before his two New Zealand shows.

Over the past two years, Auckland artist, writer and curator Melissa Laing has been taking people out on her boat on the waterways of West Auckland and inviting them to share stories. Video, Audio, Gallery

William Dart looks at the music of Lisa Knapp, an English folksinger-songwriter with tiny hints of Kate Bush and Björk to her sound. Video, Audio

Robbie Williams shares his thoughts on Dunedin, Tami Neilson, sexuality and undies ahead of his two NZ shows.

Nick Bollinger revisits a Wilco classic on its 21st anniversary. Audio

When a virulent disease infected hundreds of kiwifruit orchards and threatened the industry, a team of scientists was mobilised to solve the problem. They've now won the PM's Science Prize. Audio

Charlotte Wilson presents a Curtain Raiser introducing the shimmering beauty of Ravel's String Quartet of 1903. Audio

We know movies aren't real but we buy into them more than we realise, a US neuroscientist has concluded, after studying how we observe the world around us. Audio

Here is all the latest essential information about Cyclone Gita.

Residents of Nuku'alofa endured a "terrifying" night with huge amounts of debris, trees uprooted, and roofs ripped from buildings. Audio

PHOTOS: Tropical Cyclone Gita has left a trail of destruction in Tonga.

You see them in small groups, often two or three, walking along Blenheim's roadsides to the big supermarkets. Audio

Brexit is a case of a "collective English mental breakdown", a Cambridge professor says. Audio

Al Green is one of soul's towering figures, with hits such as ‘Love and Happiness’ and ‘I'm Still in Love with You’, and a personal life marked by struggle between religion and secular music. Audio

Loyle Carner started his career in hip hop aged seventeen, as a way to help his mum pay rent. Six years later he's been nominated for The Mercury Prize and two Brit Awards. Video, Audio

The American mezzo joins the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for a concert of music by Mendelssohn, Elgar and Strauss.

From being roped in to help pack lettuces at the at the age of seven, Liz Tregidga has taken over the family's pioneering hydroponics company. Audio

The Auckland company, made up of people who have at some point lived on the streets, is crowdfunding to take its latest play to Wellington's fringe festival. Audio

An average year for sport, a terrible year for sports journalism. That was how the New Zealand Herald’s sports editor-at-large Dylan Cleaver summed up 2017 in a column just before Christmas. Audio

First Person - Megan Whelan doesn't remember the first time she realised she was fat, but she knows how long it took to learn to be kind to herself.