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“It’s nerve-wracking and scary and sometimes you want to vomit, but the attention from hundreds or thousands of people gives you such a rush.”

The instigator of Moana Pacific Storytelling says she saw a need for traditional Pacific tales to be told in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Sharon O'Neil, Aldous Harding, Teeks, SWIDT and Opetaia Foa'i are among the other musicians honoured at tonight's ceremony.

RNZ is reporting live on the awards from Spark Arena in Auckland tonight.

Join Duncan Smith on a journey from the trainer-wheels fibs of toddlers through to our peak period of dishonesty – the teen years – in episode two of Pants on Fire. Audio

Through reflective questions like ''Do I get satisfaction from my life?' and 'How can I be good?' we are all connected to the heart of philosophy, says Massey University professor Adriane Rini. Audio

As North Korea’s nuclear weapons program strengthens, mainstream media outlets are reporting the US could take the NZ First leader there as part of a liaison visit.

It's only in the great outdoors that children can learn crucial life lessons like resilience and respect, says scholar and child advocate Tim Gill. Audio

Music 101's Alex Behan visits, Kingsdon Chapple-Wilson, aka Kings, at his family's marae – Northcote's Awataha, where he records and produces all his music.

Simon Morris gets on board a well-known train, discovers that social media can lead to narcissism and is reminded real-life heroism isn’t, in itself, particularly dramatic. Video, Audio

We spend money we don't have, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't know. To stem this tide of waste we need to become more – not less –​ materialistic, an Australian economist says. Audio

On the eve of her first New Zealand visit, Be Good Tanyas singer talks to Nick Bollinger about her soulful solo turn. Audio

Sarah Wilkins is the only New Zealand illustrator involved in the wildly successful Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls book series. Audio, Gallery

Lorde is nominated for five Tuis – how many do you think she'll take home tonight?

With our fellow members of the mammal club – including tiny shrews and giant blue whales – human beings share lactation, warm blood and sometimes body hair, backbones and scrotums. Audio

Gershwin was the main draw card in the final major performance for the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.  Audio

You can download your own copy of our National Youth Orchestra playing Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra  from our Podcast Classics page.

New music from Margo Price, tour dates from Frazey Ford and Supersuckers, raucous blues from Lightning Hopkins and home-grown country from Eb & Sparrow. Audio

Katy Gosset talks to parents and a clinical psychologist about the R&D of child rearing in Are We There Yet? Audio

Katie Parker puts The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Living a Beautiful Life to the test - and finds that being lazy doesn’t come cheap.

'Slacktivism' and, ironically, the belief that people power can change society undermine attempts at collective action, new research has shown. Audio

An Auckland academic says he has seen an extraordinary race-based bias in the coverage of Pacific fans at the Rugby League World Cup.

Visitors to Central Park in Wellington can use a new app to follow a virtual kākā named Kaia and help her set up a nest. The app, named Kākā, is aimed at young people and families. Audio

An Australian academic says it is too early to say what impact the release of the Paradise Papers will have on the four Pacific nations so far involved.