Karyn Hay

Did you know we had truffles in New Zealand? Like proper, big, gourmet truffles? Well we do and they're just as hard to find here as they are in France. Gary Grootelaar is the lodge proprietor and… Audio

With a foot of snow on the ground, it's not ideal for farming at Lammermoor Station in the Maniototo district of Central Otago, but the sub-zero temperatures are doing wonders at their distillery with… Audio

Wellington's south coast is on high alert tonight with the mayor Andy Foster ordering an emergency evacuation for the seaside suburb of Breaker Bay that's expected to take the brunt of a southerly… Audio

On Monday night's we look at words - in all their wonderful weirdness, because the English language certainly is a very odd mix of languages and concepts.  Audio

Lately's weekly call to the BBC World Service's team about the global news ahead for the week. Tonight Karyn speaks with Rob Hugh-Jones.  Audio

Large swells are forecast for Wellington's south coast - from Tuesday morning until Wednesday evening - with waves expected as high as six metres.  Audio

Wellington's intrepid music connoisseur Finn Johansson shares his new release insights with Karyn Hay tonight. Featured on his Lately play list XIMEUA with the track Teyolokualoyan, Lingua Ignota with… Audio

The Director-General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, says the results to date are good news in Wellington with no community cases of Covid-19 reported today, but the full picture won't be known until… Audio

Tonight we look back in time to 1939 when the first issue of the Listener was published It's almost a year since the Listener was relaunched after its near death experience when Bauer Media dumped its… Audio

The French Film Festival Aotearoa is traveling around the country with its programme of French films for 2021. Karyn speaks with the festival's director Fergus Grady after their opening night in… Audio

Wellington has had its first day at Alert Level 2 after a tourist from Sydney visited the Capital last weekend while infected with Covid-19. There are 20 locations of interest listed on the Ministry… Audio

Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Lately. Colin Peacock talked to Karyn Hay about the launch of the new news channel labelled ‘Fox News for the UK,’ the bike bridge beat-up that’s still creating… Video, Audio

Entertainer, singer, writer and quizmaster, the inimitable Max Cryer makes a welcome return to RNZ National tonight when he joins Karyn on Words. His subject is New Zealand English: words you won't… Audio

BBC journalist Audrey Tinline talks to Karyn about President Biden's first meeting with President Putin this week; Iranians go to the polls to decide who'll be the country's next president and… Audio

A formal apology is coming from the government for the wrongs committed during the Dawn Raids of the 1970s. The raids were carried out to uncover and deport overstayers and took place very early in… Audio

TimeOut has named the coolest streets in the world and Melbourne's Smith Street has taken the top prize. Karyn crosses to a bar on Smith Street as the city comes out of lockdown for it's first night… Audio

This week in 1976 the first McDonald's store opened, in Porirua north of Wellington. Audio

South Island skifields are trying to convince the Government to help them bring in specialist workers from overseas such as groomer operators as border restrictions continue to halt the flow of… Audio