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On Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 80th birthday, RNZ Concert presenter Clarissa Dunn joins Jesse to share magical moments from Dame Kiri's career including recordings of the young star on the rise and… Video, Audio

Poet Laureate Chris Tse curates a selection of recent books by Aotearoa’s East and South East Asian writers to mark Lunar New Year.

Maggie Tweedie talks to Sudan Archives ahead of her show in Aotearoa next week. Video, Audio

An Auckland Transport proposal could see the Gulf Harbour to Downtown ferry discontinued within the next five years, with passengers forced onto buses instead… Video, Audio

Making the Tasman Mako's rugby team has taken a huge amount of commitment and sacrifice from 17-year-old Buller High School student Ashlee Forsyth and her whānau. 

Music from the world, for the world, hosted by Trevor Reekie. Audio

Budget day is all about the Minister of Finance’s big reveal. But spare a thought for other party leaders who must prepare speeches opposing something they haven't read yet. Audio

An American mathematician is using maths and computer science to end the decades-old political tactic of gerrymandering. It's a practice used by both Republicans and Democrats in the US to manipulate… Audio

From a standing start of little tank engines chugging along wooden rails, New Zealand built a vast rail network, made up of enough steel rail to wrap halfway around the moon. Video, Audio

‘Not OK’ is the beautiful new melodious soul-folk-influenced single from Taranaki-based Australian singer-songwriter Renée Millner.

This week on Introducing its Taranaki-based Australian… Audio

The ocean going waka Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti is scheduled to depart Tauranga on Monday for a trip around part of the North Island. The crew have been trained by celestial navigator Jack Thatcher who has… Audio

Writer and podcaster Nicola Twilley's latest book, co-authored with husband Geoff Manaugh, is Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine. She joins the show to discuss the importance of… Audio

Josh Richards has made it on to the shortlist to go on a one-way trip to Mars. Josh speaks to Karyn from his Mount Gambier home in Australia. Audio

On what would have been Bob Marley's 76th birthday, his son, Ziggy, opens up to Charlotte about his fathers legacy, and Rastafarianism. Audio

Kate Tempest, UK spoken word artist and rapper has been one of the most talked about artists in the opening days of the New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington.

Audiences have also been taken… Audio

My next guest is one of New Zealand's foremost nature photographers, his photos have graced postage stamps, featured on New Zealand bank notes and in magazines from around the world. And now Rob… Audio, Gallery

2020 NZ Festival of the Arts co-curator, Laurie Anderson talks about her own shows there, including a virtual out of body trip to the moon.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing: we take a trip on a spaceship with Julie London. 

A tribute to the inventor of bossa nova, Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, who died earlier in… Video

A satellite tracking programme is revealing, for the first time, where New Zealand's Pacific golden plovers or kuriri migrate to breed. Audio

In 'Breath of the Birds' Dame Gillian Whitehead discusses the origin of taonga puoro, their revival, and how she has used traditional Māori musical instruments in her compositions. Audio, Gallery

Visionary, former partner of Lou Reed and Nasa's only artist-in-residence - Laurie Anderson is taking audiences at the 2020 New Zealand Festival of the Arts on A Trip to the Moon, on an out of body… Video, Audio

William Dart travels to the moon and beyond, charting two decades of Tom Ludvigson and Trevor Reekie's Trip to the Moon albums, and looking at their new two-man improv album, Roto. Video, Audio

It's the 50th anniversary of the moon landing: we take a trip on a spaceship with Julie London. 

A tribute to the inventor of bossa nova, Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, who has died.  

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In December 1968 a 22-year-old David Bowie penned what is now one of his most loved songs, 'Space Oddity'. It offered a dystopian counter-image to the overwhelming global enthusiasm for space… Audio

I Am Mother from Netflix is a high concept science fiction film where the execution doesn’t quite live up to its grand ideas, says Dan Slevin. Video

An Auckland woman has accidentally found her late grandfather's diary, which revealed that he was part of a secret society that helped overthrow China's last imperial dynasty. Seventy-two-year-old… Audio

Almost 50 years ago, in July 1969, the US astronauts Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong went to the Moon on Apollo 11 and then all safely came back to Earth again. A new BBC series called… Audio

Trevor Reekie has been a pivotal figure in the NZ music scene throughout his career, from helping discover Bic Runga and Shihad to showcasing trans-global artists on RNZ. Here Trevor shares five songs… Video, Audio

Young tangata Maori and Pasifika aim to revitilise traditional Polynesian wayfinding skills on a training voyage from Auckland to Norfolk Island. Audio

New Zealand's merino industry is world leading and the third-biggest producer on the planet, but it's processed largely in Asia. To investigate, Zac Fleming visited a processing compound in Namh Dinh.