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Australian musician Jen Cloher, who is of Ngapuhi and Ngati Kahu descent, talks to Anika about embracing her whakapapa and finding her authenticity in the music industry. Video, Audio

This weekend at Auckland Museum there is a rare overnight wananga to share matauranga Māori knowledge around an extraordinary object: Te Rā, the only customary Maori sail in existence. It has returned… Audio

Popular music is not pure; it respects no borders. The only truly indigeneous music from Aotearoa is likely to be bird song. But many birds migrate and bring back jazz, country, rhythm and blues… Audio

The journey anthropologist and award-winning writer Dame Anne Salmond has made into Te Ao Māori as a Pākehā over 50 years - creating a bridge for others to connect with our histories, our environment… Audio

It seems singing to your infant does help to calm them down, but how? Dr Sam Mehr from The Music Lab at Auckland University is trying to find out. Audio

The news that the Oxford English Dictionary has added 'chur' and 36 te reo words to their collection prompted AudioCulture's Chris Bourke to look into the history of the word. Audio

In March 2021, Ihitai'Avei'a – Star Navigator premiered to sell-out crowds in South Auckland, then Covid-19 closed the curtains. Composer Tim Finn and writer Célestine Hitiura Vaite talk about its… Video, Audio

After four years as Director General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield is having a temporary break from work. He chats to Jesse Mulligan about some of the "cracking good" podcasts, books and songs he's… Video, Audio

The first 500 years of Māori settlement in Aotearoa saw significant, dynamic changes to how people lived; changes that challenge the idea of Māori culture as something carved in stone. Video, Audio

Today exercise is a multi billion-dollar fitness industry, and women account for more than half of all gym memberships, and dominate yoga, pilates and barre studios. But it hasn't always been this… Audio

Book review Kingdom of Characters. Cultural historian Jing Tsu's tale of the evolution of the Chinese script is a surprisingly wild ride.

On this week's Our Changing World – how songbirds learn their song, and how researchers in the Southern Hemisphere are trying to correct a long-standing male bias in the songbird world. Audio

The New Zealand accent is a potpourri of international diversity, and it continues to evolve.  Audio

Prominent Pasifika sportspeople discuss the ongoing mispronunciation of Pacific Island names and ask, "What more can be done?" Audio

Edinburgh University Professor of Evolutionary Ecology Jonathan Silvertown at why laughter is our first langauge and what is certifiably funny and what isn't in his new book, The Comedy of Error: Why… Audio

Homo sapiens can be the nicest of species and also the nastiest, according to Harvard University biological anthropologist Professor Richard Wrangham. He joins the show to discuss his book, The… Audio

Researchers at the University of Exeter analysed the lyrics of more than 15,000  songs published between 1965 and 2015 and found that popular songs are getting sadder. Dr. Charlotte Brand was one of… Audio

New research has revealed that music could be prescribed to help us focus, feel happier, relax and overcome sadness. Lyz Cooper is the founder of the British Academy of Sound Therapy and conducted the… Audio

This Saturday on Music 101 we're counting down the top 21 Kiwi albums of the 21st century. Ahead the show, let's take a look at how the New Zealand music scene has grown and flourished over the past… Video

Isa Pearl Ritchie drew on her own childhood experiences and got some help from her daughter to write Awa and the Dreamrealm – a book  about a 13-year-old girl who doesn't know that what she's… Audio

Is Colin McCahon our country's most important artist? Justin Paton thinks so. Paton is Head Curator of International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, an active art critic, and author of… Audio, Gallery

Te Ahi Kaa is with revered orator and Māori language exponent, Professor Pou Temara who discusses the evolution of Māori customary practices as seen on the marae. The marae, a complex of buildings… Audio

What if plants are smarter than we think - a lot smarter? That's the central premise for an essay, published in The Paris Review by New York-based writer and editor Cody Delistraty.  Audio

Risk, learning and sharing remain fundamental to the joy for both players and audiences of the Grammy winning ensemble Silkroad, says Jeffrey Beecher, co-artistic director. Silkroad play Auckland… Video, Audio

The national kapa haka festival Te Matatini takes place in Wellington this week. Performer Ngairo Eruera and judge Te Atarangi Whiu share their experiences of performing on stage alongside their… Audio

The distinctive New Zealand accent and why young women lead the way in the evolution of a uniquely Kiwi way of talking. Audio

We hear 2019 Grammy-nominated works by Missy Mazzoli, Mason Bates, Aaron Jay Kernis; More new music by Chinese-American composer Dy Yun from her album Dinosaur Scar; Carol Shortis's death dirge, An… Video

Musicians Ria Hall and Rob Ruha both agree that kapahaka taught them discipline, voice projection and the confidence to pursue full time music careers. Both artists started at top level kapahaka, Ria… Video, Audio

The word "heaps" is distinctly kiwi. It's gone from being used to describe an amount of things or objects, to being used interchangeably with "very" or "really".  Audio