Features

It's been ten years since Anika's In Swings The Tide was released and she's touring nationwide in support of the occasion. Indeed a lot in her life has changed since that year. Video, Audio

Tom Petty’s great gift was for writing songs that sounded like they had always been there. Here are just ten of the great ones. What a shame there won’t be any more.

Dance Music was given a symphonic twist in front of a heaving Auckland Town Hall on Saturday Night. Tony Stamp was in the glow-stick waving crowd. Video, Audio

Increasing automation will see a lot of us – especially women and young people – out of work. Engineer and social entrepreneur Priti Ambani has a plan to fight back. Audio

Nearly 300 species of fish and invertebrates have crossed the Pacific Ocean on floating debris since the 2011 earthquake. Audio

A team from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says it is impressed with the work of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program in the Marshall Islands.

Canadian clarinettist James Campbell and the Goldner Quartet play classics by Borodin and Françaix at the 2017 Adam Chamber Music Festival in Nelson.

Cultivate Christchurch's Peterborough Street garden has become a 'safe place' for the city's at-risk youth and homeless people. Video, Audio

With Auckland's first downtown Pacific restaurant now up and running, chef Robert Oliver is planning his next move – a Pacific Islands food campaign which will include a TV cooking show. Audio, Gallery

The head of the Tonga National Centre for Women and Children says she is proud to see so many women running for parliament in Tonga's upcoming general election.

The Clean were inducted into the NZ Music Hall Of Fame on Thursday. The day after we headed to the bass player's home in Port Chalmers, where he performed for us live. Video, Audio

The invisible homeless mothers of New Zealand, the untold story of Kim Jong-nam's assassination and the totalitarian dystopia of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.

Thomas Hall scandalised New Zealand when it was revealed he had attempted to murder his wife in order to steal her family fortune. Audio

It's 50 years today since the death of American activist song-writer Woody Guthrie, composer of This Land is Your Land and hundreds of other songs. You can listen to or playlist William Dart's six-part survey of Guthrie's life's work here. Audio

While New Zealand struggles with a lack of affordable houses, a Nordic country has come up with a permanent solution to homelessness. Audio

The election polls aggressively promoted and reported by our two big TV broadcasters returned very different results.  Does this mean we need more of them - or none at all, asks Colin Peacock. Video, Audio

“Where are the Silver Scrolls we deserve?” asked The Wireless last week. This question begs another – Who are “we” and whose Scrolls are they anyway? Nick Bollinger responds.

Despite the fact all the APRA Silver Scroll finalists were women, they're still severely underrepresented in New Zealand’s music industry. Audio

Al Brown's new book pays homage to classic Kiwi dishes, he says we should be wonderfully proud of our traditional food culture. Audio

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme says Pacific people are more affected by microbead plastics in the marine food chain than other populations.

Other potentially habitable planets are far away and hard to find, but there are over 10 billion in our galaxy, says NASA astrophysicist Dr Natalie Batalha. Audio

Farming couple Duncan Smith and Annabel Tapley-Smith took over the butcher's shop in the central Hawkes Bay town of Waipawa this July. They're selling beef and lamb from their farm just down the road and business is taking off. Audio

Tuvaluans in New Zealand are celebrating their fifth annual language week this week.

Maioha Award-nominated Kingi Kiriona talks about his foray into kapa haka and what he believes is his koha or gift to the Māori language. Audio