Life And Society

For Freaky Friday this week we hear from Duncan with a spooky tomato sauce encounter and Jenny whose time in a haunted house left her family trembling! Audio

Like a cat cuddle with your cappuccino? The South Island's only cat cafe is celebrating five years of business - including setting up 150 rescue cat adoptions. Audio

It's a trip they're unlikely to forget anytime soon. Taranaki farmers, Rebecca and Lloyd Alexander, were part of a dozen-strong team who spent three weeks touring across the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Audio

Christmas might be six months away, but Santa Claus is already on the hunt for helpers this year. Eric Diamond has been a very good friend of Santa's for the past 10 years, helping him out during the… Audio

There's been whale-spotting excitement around Wellington Harbour again with a tohorā or southern right whale appearance.

Facebook groups dedicated to dolphin and whale sightings lit up with photos… Audio

An otago school boy is youngest ever winner of a prestigious bravery award after rescuing his brother in monster waves and freezing conditions at Chrystalls beach in Milton. The Royal Life Saving… Video, Audio

More than a decade after the devastating quakes, Christchurch's iconic buildings are coming back to life. Scratch artist Mike Beer, aka 'Ghost Cat', has embarked on an ambitious collaboration to… Audio

A group of New Zealand teenagers have been selected to take part in a South Korean reality TV show called 'After School: School Trip'. The show is in its fifth season, and the concept is to take… Audio

Would you believe that the theory of bulls*** has become a genuine area of study? It's called "bullsh**ology", and it all kicked off when American philosopher Professor Harry Frankfurt published his… Audio

Religious structures are big on TradeMe this week, with a church in Southland and a Shinto temple themed ... hearse up for auction. But before we go there, producer Jeremy Parkinson talked with Millie… Audio

If you're looking to buy a classic video game that was released before 2010, you'll need a lot more than good luck. That's because 87 percent of these are critically endangered according to a major… Audio

Yoga - when does appreciation become appropriation? In this two-part series, Voices talk to New Zealand practitioners about the commodification of ancient Indian practice. Audio

Locals in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland are rallying around the families of the two men shot dead in the city's CBD last week.

Solomona Tootoo from Manurewa, and Tupuga Sipiliano, from Wattle Downs, were… Audio

A woman who has lost friends to conspiracy theory communities has described how she became a prisoner in her own home, living in fear of her former friend.

People who have been sucked into extremist… Audio

Dr. Jean Twenge is a Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, and the author of more than 140 scientific publications. She was last on RNZ six years ago discussing the less happy and… Audio

At the Easter of 1939, on the cusp of WW2 and when Aucklander Johnny Green was just nine years old, his mother gifted him an egg cup. It featured three ceramic chicks, contained a single chocolate… Audio

People love sharing photos and videos. There are unknowably huge numbers of images on-line. But what if you disappeared from your own photo-album? The rest of the scene still there, but your face is… Audio