Features

Bruce Beutler received the 2011 Nobel Prize for discoveries about the innate immune system in mammals, Our Changing World catches up with him. Audio

It's difficult for Jeremy Taylor to put into words the impact that The Queen Is Dead had on him when it was released in June 1986.

Ryan Smith fathoms out the reasons Estonian composer Arvo Pärt turned to medieval plainsong for his much-loved contemporary music. Audio

It's difficult for Jeremy Taylor to put into words the impact that The Queen Is Dead had on him when it was released in June 1986.

With a few weeks before NCEA exams, education consultant Karen Boyes has key tips for students heading into study leave. Audio

A Tongan-born artist who has won this year's contemporary Pacific artist award in New Zealand says he almost gave up his passion for art.

An intellectually disabled Fijian man won't be deported from New Zealand, the new Immigration Minister says.

Her special sense around colours helps Joyce Yang to learn and interpret music such as Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto which she's performing on tour with the NZSO. They're live from the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington tonight at 6.30pm on RNZ Concert. Video, Audio

Changing roles, gender stereotypes and being the only bloke at the coffee morning. How do you navigate fatherhood in 2017? Katy Gosset looks at the pressures on modern fathers. Audio

Chris Bourke's recently published book Goodbye Maoriland draws on the letters and diaries of Kiwi soldiers to tell of the songs and performers of WWI. Audio

“This album encourages us as a nation to look at each other square in the eye, and open up a forum for honest dialogue.”   Video, Audio

Can penguins and humans co-exist? Specifically the world's smallest penguin - the little blue penguin or kororā. Audio

The stakes were high, but Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok delivers, writes Katie Parker.

Singer Ria Hall has used her iwi history as a starting point for her debut album The Rules Of Engagement, released to coincide with the first national day of commemoration of the New Zealand Wars. Video, Audio

Kim Pickering is an award-winning academic who is developing radical new sustainable manufacturing materials including hemp, flax, scrap plastic and corn starch. Audio

There’s lust and fear in seemingly equal measures, and it’s left to us as listeners to decide who is the seducer and who is being seduced. Audio

His was perhaps the loveliest of the Byrds’ voices – and certainly the most overlooked, and more than half a century on, that voice is still lovely. Audio

Bill English has retained the throne but who could be the next National Party leader? The Wireless takes a look at some possible leaders in the wings.

NZ Wars: The Stories of Ruapekapeka - Historian Vincent O'Malley writes about the importance of acknowledging the darker episodes of New Zealand's past.

Award-winning German cellist Julian Steckel plays one of the great concertos of the cello repertoire with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, tonight at 7pm on RNZ Concert.

Lizzie Tollemache and David Ladderman's central Otago honeymoon was not exactly normal; in fact it was paranormal. And they've turned it into a ghostly play. Audio

Fats Domino, one of the most influential rock and roll performers of the 1950s and 1960s, has died aged 89. Video

Incoming prime minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand's offer to take refugees from Australia's offshore detention centres remains on the table.

People in Honolulu can be fined from now on if they look at their phone while crossing the road.