Life And Society

A new way to extract DNA will mean that hundreds of thousands of shell samples in museums will now be available for study. PhD candidate at the University of Otago's Department of Zoology Kerry Walton… Audio

The party's over for the world's most famous plastic container brand in New Zealand. After nearly 50 years, Tupperware is pulling its products out of Aotearoa this October. 'Tupperware parties' –… Audio

Do you feel a bit snappier when you haven't had a good sleep? You're not imagining it. People are less likely to help each other when they haven't had enough rest, according to a new study by UC… Audio

A Blenheim green grocer says he's been able to maintain good stocks of veges for sale throughout the floods, because of the goodwill of others.

Flooding and slips threatened to cut off regular… Audio

The axing of a third of the staff at Mt Ruapehu's skifields is sending reverberations across the region.

About 135 people have lost their jobs, as one of the warmest, wettest winters on record leaves… Audio

Christchurch's peace train is on track to make its spring debut, thanks to dozens of residents answering a call by the City Council for volunteers. Volunteer and chief train driver, Andrew Wilson… Audio

A Northland woman is offering up a secluded getaway free-of-charge for Nelson residents whose homes have been badly hit by flooding or landslides.

Kristan Lopes told Māni Dunlop why she was offering… Audio

The Palmy Drag Fest is fast approaching. Not the normal hoons in Toyotas along Fitzherbert Ave that we know and love, its a show at the Regent Theatre in Palmerston North with Drag Queens and Kings… Audio

It doesn't get more Kiwi than the ole-Buzzybee - and this week on TradeMe you could be the star of your town's Christmas Parade - it's a Buzzy-Bee float up for auction. And a Piha grand design. But… Audio

A group in Christchurch is plotting a revolution against throw away culture, to help people maintain and fix their broken belongings.

The Repair Revolution meets once a month in a community house in… Video, Audio

Live music venue operators say urban intensification is sounding the death knell for their sector. As more and more people move into apartments and other developments in our urban centres - tension… Audio

Calling Home this morning, a very familiar name, and voice Don McGlashan.  He's calling home from Canada where he lives with his wife Canadian, Ann Macdonell, Director of Library Advancement at Simon… Audio

Comedians Tim Batt and Carlo Ritchie consider a question so daft that no one ever asked it: Did Titanic Sink?

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Anthony Field is probably better known to under-35s - and their appreciative parents - as the Blue Wiggle, part of the phenomenally popular Australian children's music group The Wiggles. He's the… Audio

Former prisoners and family members with relatives behind bars have described the penal system as hard to navigate from the outside, and dehumanising and nightmarish for those inside.

Names have been… Audio

Two Christ Church Cathedral restoration workers have become the first people to legally venture inside the severely damaged building since the city's 2011 earthquake.

Senior engineer Pete Carney and… Audio

A new home-grown reality competition show "Heartbreak Island" has begun streaming online where 16 singles compete for love and $100,000.

But as many of us know, reality TV is not always paradise for… Audio