Christmas
Spending the Festive season with Moses MacKay
Love it or hate it, Christmas music is everywhere this time of year. And it seems Sol3 Mio love Christmas, and the public love their new Christmas themed album. A Very Merry Christmas, which launched… Video, Audio
Aucklanders already lining up for Xmas food parcels
People in need have been lining up since midnight to get a Christmas food parcel and presents for their children, Auckland's City Mission says.
David Tua delivers Christmas gifts to Ōtara children
Christmas has come early for some South Auckland children with the boxing superstar David Tua among volunteers handing out gifts as part of the Christmas Present Drop. Video, Audio
Carol Advent Calendar for Festive Season
Today RNZ Concert is the first radio station in the world to broadcast a new carol by top British composer John Rutter. It’s one of 25 carols being released in the lead up to Christmas. The carols are… Audio
A new kind advent calendar
Christmas is just weeks away and every year there's a cry that the holiday has become too commercialised. One church is combating that with an advent calendar to bring the focus back to what they… Video, Audio
Are you too Christmasy?
Apparently those who put up their Christmas decorations early are happier than the rest of us. Bah humbug! Audio
Santa arrives early for 4000 children in Ōtara
About 4000 students in south Auckland's Ōtara will be receiving a Christmas gift through the 'Christmas Present Drop' initiative.
Christmas parcels packed for overseas troops
Soldiers, navy and airforce personnel joined forces today with the RSA, Foodstuffs, Z Energy, and school kids to pack Christmas parcels for about 300 personnel on overseas deployments. Video, Audio
Auckland Philharmonia - Celebrate Christmas 2016
The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra performs its annual 'Celebrate Christmas' concert in Holy Trinity Cathedral with special guests soprano Patricia Wright and The Graduate Choir. Audio
NZ's Xmas history one of feasting, not praying - academic
Some people lament the loss of the religious meaning of Christmas, but a religious academic says early European settlers were more interested in food than church on Christmas Day.
Helping with free lunch 'captures the essence of Christmas'
For the 600 volunteers helping out with the Auckland City Mission's Christmas lunch today, getting the chance to give something back makes it the happiest day of the year.
A Christmas Playlist
Tired of the same carols on repeat? Clarissa Dunn and Cynthia Morahan asked colleagues and friends from the music community to contribute some of their favourites to a Christmas Playlist. Video
Christmas charity: An 'attitude for gratitude'
Hundreds of volunteers will prepare Christmas lunches for the less fortunate today, and some Christchurch kids have been helping raise money for the homeless.
Christmas weather: Mild temperatures for most of NZ
It should be a mild Christmas Day for most of New Zealand, with light showers in some regions in the morning expected to fade away by the afternoon.
Naughty or nice? Who really gets the Christmas goodies?
Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists with groundbreaking research that must already be one of the front runners for this year's Ig Nobel science awards. For the first time there is empirical… Audio
The history of Christmas Dinner
Kathryn Ryan talks to Katie Cooper, a historian at Te Papa who's an expert in the social history of food in New Zealand with a particular interest in rural areas during the colonial period. She's just… Audio
What's the best free gift you can give someone for Christmas?
Not every present has to be purchased. We took to the streets to hear what free gifts people are giving this year. Audio
A Christmas message from United Future
A Christmas message from United Future leader Peter Dunne. Audio
A Christmas message from the Act Party
A Christmas message from Act Party leader David Seymour. Audio
Tongan Christmas in Salt Lake City
Bev Uipi is a city councilor in Millcreek City, a township bordering Salt Lake City. Utah is home to more people of pacific descent than anywere else in continental USA. We'll ask her about her… Audio
