Katrina Batten

An Auckland rest home is winning plaudits with a programme for dementia patients - teaming them up with babies. Baby Buddies has been hailed a great success and is loved by both the patients, the… Video, Audio

Black Pink, BTS and Gangnam Style - all K-pop bands, the style of music has been growing in popularity and some K-pop bands are worldwide phenomenons. If you've never heard of it, let us introduce… Video, Audio

In the pledge to rid the country of single use plastic bags supermarkets warned and then removed plastic bags from checkouts. This forced customers to bring in their own bags. And just a month or so… Video, Audio

A while ago we spoke to Ruth MacKenzie who along with her husband Mark is living in Dili in East Timor working for Volunteer Service Abroad. The last time we spoke, Mark was working but Ruth was yet… Audio

Long time RNZ listeners will remember newsreader Hewitt Humphrey, When he started out in the 60s he was one of our youngest newsreaders and was reading the afternoon news bulletins when the… Audio

It seems the cheeky blue penguins that tried to make a home underneath a Wellington sushi store have accepted their fate - and found a new home. The pair were moved from underneath the building near… Audio

A couple of weeks ago, we spoke with the head of Volunteer Service Abroad about the importance of volunteering and the work they do across the Pacific. Stephen Goodman told us that the volunteers make… Audio

The longest running theatre performance on the West End was based on a real life crime which took place in Britain at the end of the 1940s. But unless you've been to London, most of us will never get… Video, Audio