History

In 1860, the shots fired sparked decades—arguably generations—of conflict. RNZ's Tim Watkin looks at what sparked the conflict and his ancestors' arrival in the midst of these tensions. Audio

A year after the tragic events in Christchurch how does the New Zealand Muslim community feel about living here? Audio

In June last year the Tapu te Ranga Marae caught fire and the main building burnt to the ground. The marae has been an integral part of Wellington for decades and was a lifelong project for Bruce… Audio

On 25th October 1909 a travelling performance group of Māori women took the stage at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan  with Emmeline Pankhurst, the woman leading the militant wing of the British women's… Audio

APEC 1999; the unlikely story of how a free trade talkfest helped save a nation from destruction. Produced by Justin Gregory. Audio

In the early 1990s, RNZ produced a series of programmes called "A Strange Land" featuring half-hour interviews with migrants to New Zealand reflecting on their experiences as they made a new life in… Audio, Gallery

There's a warning the World Heritage status of Tongariro National Park could be threatened by people flouting rahui in the area. The Park has been under a rahui, or temporary restriction, twice… Audio

Today in music history in 1966 The Beach Boys started recording their hit "God Only Knows" Audio

English folk-punk singer Frank Turner's about to come back to New Zealand next month, and he's just put out his eighth studio album, No Man's Land, which is entirely made up of the stories of… Audio

Serhii Plokhy is a professor of history at Harvard University. His 2018 book Chernobyl: History of A Tragedy tells the story of the nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday 26 April 1986, at the No… Audio

Volunteers in Wellington are keen to clean up forgotten war graves, but they aren't allowed to - unless they can get in touch with the dead person's next of kin. Audio

Jeanette Fitzsimons, who led the Green Party into Parliament in the 1990s, has died unexpectedly overnight, aged 75. Her husband, Harry Parke, says she lived her convictions as an environmentalist and… Audio

Fifty years ago, the plight of two iconic Fiordland lakes sparked a nationwide outcry and the largest environmental campaign the country had ever seen.

Some of the original campaigners are gathering… Audio

Fifty years ago, New Zealand was in the midst of a watershed environmental battle.

In 1970, one in ten New Zealanders signed a petition opposing a plan to build a hydro dam that would massively raise… Audio

Multi-instrumentalists, partners, collaborators and music historians  Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi join Kathryn Ryan to discuss the (sometimes fraught) musical connections between race… Audio