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Bob Dylan compared him to Proust. Kris Kristofferson suggested he was so good “we’re gonna have to break his fingers”. John Prine paid a rare visit to New Zealand in February 2019. Nick Bollinger… Video

Nick Bollinger appreciates the verbal virtuosity of Chicago rapper Noname. Audio

This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger discusses the solo debut of veteran Kiwi rocker Harry Lyon, the verbal virtuosity of Chicago rapper Noname, and a Paul Simon album that offers new ways to… Audio

German Canadian virtuoso cellist Johannes Moser has performed with the world's leading orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics and Chicago and London… Video, Audio

Bizet transports us to Ceylon, where two devoted friends find themselves in love with the same woman, an entrancingly beautiful priestess, Leïla.

Tristan Meyer Odell is a typical Canadian teenager with an unusual hobby: he's into taxidermy. And even though stuffing dead animals isn't perhaps the pastime you'd choose for your offspring, his… Audio

Florence + The Machine, Courtney Barnett and Parquet Courts will headline Auckland's Laneway festival when it returns to Albert Park on 28 January.

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Dame Louise Casey is a Visiting Professor at King's College London and a guest lecturer at the London School of Economics. She has been a driving force in the establishment of the Institute for Global… Audio

Paul Fronczak spent most of his life thinking he knew who is was. A boy from Chicago, albeit with a good backstory. He thought he was the child pictured in faded news clippings from 1964, stolen at a… Audio

It’s theatre month, and musical theatre week. While crowds are flocking to see the international production of Chicago in Wellington this week, Kiwis trying to make a living in the industry are… Video

London-based couple Gavin Wong and Claire Curran were having way too much fun hearing stories about their single friends' dating exploits not to turn them into a podcast. Audio

Fifty years ago, the first wave of children born in the post-World War II baby boom were growing up - and they weren't happy about the world they had inherited. In today's visit to the sound archives… Audio

The RNZ Music Team bring dancefloor bangers and warm fluffies to their mid-Winter play and tell.  Video, Audio

The thing about the song The Gambler is that he obviously never took his own advice, whereas the man he met on the train bound for nowhere did. A new study out of the University of Chicago Booth… Audio