Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

Saturday 31 July

It's Te Wiki o Te Reo Maaori - Maori Language Week - so whakarongo mai.

2-3 pm

Access All Areas features the BBC's World of Music presenter Mark Coles in conversation with Trevor Reekie. Listen here.

Wai have a new album out - Nick Bollinger casts a taringa over 'Ora' for The Sampler.

3-4 pm

Toni Huata performs waiata from her new collection 'Whiti' live in the Music 101 studio. Listen here.

Sound engineer Chris Gee - phones in. He's on the road with The Black Seeds who are sprouting new fans all over the United States right now. Listen here.

We catch up with Riki Gooch - a.k.a. Eru Dangerspiel - who has 'Great News for the Modern Man'.

4-5 pm

In 'Kapiti: Call and Response' we observe what happens when you leave a poet, a taonga puoro player, a singer, a painter and a producer on an island with the birds, the seals, and the spirits of Te Tipuna o Kapiti.

And Upper Hutt Posse's Dean Hapeta talks about Te Kupu and music.