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Young gifted and heading overseas, Bryan Crump speaks to talented musicians Madeleine Xiao and Lorna Zhang, joint winners of ROSL Pettman scholarships to study beyond Aotearoa in 2024. Audio

Award-winning broadcaster, host of the BBC television series Grand Designs, writer, environmentalist, and storyteller, Kevin McCloud is coming to New Zealand in February for a series of special… Audio

Tony Stamp reviews the electronic duo's first record in nineteen years. Audio

When the heavens opened last weekend, some channels of official information closed. Emergency management agencies and the news media both copped criticism for lagging behind events - and behind social… Audio

A cheating scandal has rocked the chess world, but it's just the latest in a long list of sports cheats. Audio

Tony Stamp dissects genre-hopping musician Santigold's latest album Spirituals, with help from the artist herself. Video, Audio

Which comes first – happiness or success? In other words, does success at work make you happy or does happiness make you more likely to succeed? After five years studying 1 million US Department of… Audio

On-air promotions, outside broadcasts and commercial radio ratings, this episode explores Māori radio and the work behind the mic. Audio

Thirty years ago Catherine King and Wayne Adams started a project to build their dream home - a floating complex off the coast of western Canada which they have dubbed Freedom Cove. What they created… Audio

Tony Stamp assesses the second album from witty Canadian rockers Kiwi Jr., a new EP by Christchurch husband and wife duo Terrible Sons, and a roster of local artists taking on a classic Split Enz… Audio

In Voices this week, we meet the Auckland couple who smashed the Guinness World Record for baking the world's biggest lamington. Audio

Nick Bollinger reviews new albums from current LA singer-songwriters Phoebe Bridgers and Christian Lee Hutson, plus a lost 70s set from Neil Young. Audio

Chronic fatigue syndrome and other ‘mystery’ neural-inflammatory illnesses are now widespread and we urgently need to understand them better, says US singer Sarah Ramey. Her new book The Lady's… Audio

Art galleries, writers and publishing houses, cultural institutions and arts related events facing cancellation are offering online options for art lovers and for the artists themselves.

RNZ Music is excited to share this exclusive preview of the new album from NZ-born, Nashville-based Americana duo, the Tattletale Saints. Dancing Under the Dogwoods is out Friday, January 24.

Marriage Story shows (yet) another side of the great Adam Driver, reports Dan Slevin. Video

Time for On The Road now. This is where we get a prominent New Zealander in to chat about their favourite ever road trip, reflect a bit on the year just gone, and play us a few of their essential road… Audio

Just over four percent of the films in Hollywood are directed by women - a number that hasn’t substantially changed in 20 years. Director and writer Amy Adrion wanted to find out why. Her debut… Video, Audio

Words have power. No one knows that better than Matt Blomfield, a former Hell's Pizza executive who found himself the subject of an orchestrated attack by Cameron Slater on the blog Whale Oil in… Audio

A year on from a $5.8 million investment in forestry, the Bay of Plenty village of Minginui is showing seeds of promise, but the 90 jobs initially promised is now being described as 'aspirational'… Video, Audio

Ground-breaking electronic album Switched on Bach celebrates its 50^th anniversary this year. RNZ Music’s Trevor Reekie spoke to music lecturer Mark Graham who recently wrote a comprehensive piece on… Video, Audio

Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is one of the most celebrated albums in popular music. An exhaustive new 6-disc set lets us sit in on its construction. Audio

New Zealand Music Month has been running for 17 years. Alex Behan asks the people who were there from the start to tell its story: how it began, what it's achieved and where it's going next. Video, Audio

How do our brains change as we get older? Noelle finds out, with the help of a neuroscientist, a centenarian, and a Poet Laureate. Video, Audio

James Gardner interviews Brian Hodgson, electronic music composer; for many years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop where, among other things, he created the sounds of the Tardis for Dr Who.

James Gardner interviews Bernie Krause; with Paul Beaver, they were the go-to duo for Moog work in the late 60s.