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President Donald Trump has ordered US firms to stop doing business with the wildly popular TikTok app and with WeChat within 45 days in a major escalation in Washington's stand-off with Beijing… Audio

Controversial American film director Oliver Stone has published a intimate new memoir about his life and work up to 1987, when he won Best Director  for the Vietnam War film Platoon.

Alice Procter is an art historian, tour guide and museum enthusiast who thinks institutions need to be more honest about how they came to acquire their collections. She runs "Uncomfortable Art Tours"… Audio

Our expert on ageing Doug Wilson's back with his take on how the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic will affect older New Zealanders and what we need to do to protect them should the virus start spreading… Audio

Layla (not her real name) is a New Zealander working remotely from the Bay of Plenty as an online advocate for some of the estimated 400,000 migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. They are mostly women… Audio

Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer Ned Kelly is both a man and a myth. From Sir Sydney Nolan's epic paintings to Peter Carey's 2001 Booker Prize-winning novel… Audio

In the new documentary The Girl on The Bridge, suicide survivor Jazz Thornton confronts New Zealand's youth mental health crisis head-on. The film documents not only Jazz's extraordinary activism but… Video, Audio

American mountaineer and writer Jon Krakauer was a member of a fateful 1996 Mount Everest expedition that got caught in a blizzard that claimed eight lives, including New Zealanders Rob Hall and… Audio, Gallery

Brazil is on track to overtake the US and have the world's highest death toll from Covid-19 by the end of this month. Led by President Jair Bolsonaro, who currently has the virus - which he calls a… Audio

Cambridge University consultant clinical virologist Dr Chris Smith returns to digest emerging Covid-related science and research. This week, a growing understanding of the widespread (and sometimes… Audio

Described by a Guardian reviewer as "superb hate-reading", writer and columnist Anand Giridharadas's latest book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World investigates the hypocrisy of… Audio

Slow Boat Records is a Wellington institution, a magnet for musos and vinyl heads. As the city's longest surviving independent record store, it was named one of the world's finest music shops back in… Audio

Astronaut, oceanographer and adventurer Kathy Sullivan recently became the first person ever to have walked in space, and to have travelled to the deepest point of the world's oceans. She's just… Audio, Gallery

The author of Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, and number9dream, David Mitchell, has just released a new novel: his first in five years. Utopia Avenue, is a magical, musical story about '...the… Audio

Formerly a writer on Shortland Street, director Max Currie is bringing his acclaimed web series Rurangi to the big screen as part of this year's New Zealand International Film Festival. Billed as a… Video, Audio

Air New Zealand has put a hold on the number of people returning home, while it and the Government work to increase the capacity at managed isolation facilities.

The Minister in charge of managed… Audio