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Two playwrights have won this year’s Adam NZ Play Award: Dan Bain from Christchurch for The Odyssey and Sam Brooks from Tāmaki Makaurau for This Is My Story of Us. Audio

From gently paced travelogues to a cavalcade of local art, Dan Slevin discovers some relaxing options for your home viewing. Video

Around 600 people (including around 350 children) currently live at Gloriavale – a strict Christian community on the West Coast. In TVNZ's upcoming three-part doco Escaping Utopia, former church… Video, Audio

The world premiere of the latest NZ feature film, The Mountain has just been held in New Plymouth. Audio

Coastal plants and species may one day establish themselves in Antarctica, researchers predict. As sea ice melts around the Antarctic coast, species like bull kelp could first travel to and establish… Audio

Kiwifruit are looking good in Hawkes Bay. Some flooded vines have died but generally recovery is better than expected. Conditions are very dry in Marlborough so many farmers are offloading stock due… Audio

Fiona Eadie is head gardener at Larnach Castle in Dunedin and Tony Murrell is principal designer at Auckland's Murrell Gardens. Together they have a wealth of knowledge to share and help our gardens… Audio

For parents who only have a week or two off work over summer, it's hard seeing pictures of other people's kids "smiling from ear to ear" on sunny beaches, says Emily Writes. The Wellington writer and… Audio

Paekākāriki has long been a staging post along the coast, a place of refuge for dreamers, poets, artists, environmentalists and RNZ's own Mark Amery.

Is old-fashioned letter-writing making a comeback? Lucy Corry talks to some dedicated local correspondents.

Tony Stamp meets the people behind some of New Zealand's smaller record labels, marketing and distributing music they love. It's often done in their free time, for little, if any, profit… Audio

Tony Stamp reflects on ten of his favourite international releases from the past year, including Britpop, African folk, UK ambient, and Australian punk. Video, Audio

thanks to a range of very different reasons.

Watermelons are growing well in Pukekohe and potato crops are producing good yields at harvest. In Canterbury, baleage is being made and jersey bulls are being taken out of the dairy herd. Audio

The rest of the world gets to enjoy decades of great television on dozens of different streaming services. What is there for New Zealand, asks Dan Slevin.

What drives New Zealand's faultlines and earthquakes, and what does it mean for us?  Audio

Listen to Alistair Fraser (taonga pūoro) and Bridget Douglas (flute) perform recent compositions from Hong Kong, Aotearoa, and Denmark in this Asian Composers League concert, Te Hau, held in… Audio

On this week's Nashville Babylon there's classic reggae from Horace Andy, a soulful take on Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young courtesy of the Isley Brothers, a brace of tracks from Bonnie Bramlett plus a… Audio

Auckland's aquatic backyard and prime fishing grounds are weed-deep in trouble from exotic caulerpa, a fast-spreading algae that smothers everything in its path.  Audio

In the handsome just released book Don Binney Flight Path Gregory O’Brien tracks the avian-like swoops in the career of the late Tāmaki Makaurau painter, teacher and ornithologist (1940–2012).     Audio

Kiwi broadcaster TimProvise chats to TAHI about "nice cheap hood pies", the art of segue-ing and his former life as a school teacher. Video

It's a resounding fail for Gloriavale Christian school according to its latest ERO report card. The private school operates out of the secretive community on the West coast of the South Island about… Audio

Alison Mosshart speaks to Maggie Tweedie about the American English rock duo and the secret sauce to The Kills musical longevity. Audio

Veteran Taranaki rugby player Kevin 'Smiley' Barrett has three sons playing in the Rugby World Cup final against the Springboks tomorrow. So how is he, and mum Robyn feeling ahead of Jordie, Beauden… Audio

After a devastating collapse in their vote on election night, the Labour Party is examining what went so wrong and who is best to lead them from the opposition benches. 

Current and former MPs alike… Audio

Māori-Samoan hip-hop artist Juwan describes himself as a "rapper's rapper". Raised between the Auckland suburb of Beach Haven and the Gold Coast city of Logan, the 23 year old is now based on the… Video

In this extract from Everything I Know About Books Mary McCallum, of Mākaro Press explains how she came to publish a modern New Zealand classic - Auē! by Becky Manawatu.

As he works on his 11th book, Kiwi tramping guru Shaun Barnett is facing the toughest challenge of his life - stage four brain cancer. He talks to Jesse Mulligan about his passion for the outdoors and… Audio

Dracula's has had more than five million attendees - many Kiwis among them. And some of the best acts from the show will be included in Dracula's: The Resurrection Tour which kicks off tomorrow night… Audio

Some forestry companies on the East Coast have spent millions of dollars cleaning up slash from this year's two damaging cyclones and say they're making changes to reduce the future risk.

But others… Audio