Helen Fisher

South Waikato is kicking its Covid-19 response up a gear with the revelation a person who later tested positive for the virus spent the night in Tokoroa. 

Two new cases were also reported yesterday… Audio

We think of love as a mysterious, unknowable force. Something that happens to us. But what if we could control it? This hour, TED speakers on whether we can decide to fall in — and out of — love.

Love is instinctive and essential, but what is it that brings certain people together? In this hour, TED speakers examine the mystery of connection and relationships.

Bel Canto (Burnside High School), Susan Densem (director). Recorded by RNZ Concert, 28 August 2009.

Commissioned by Ros Emeleus for Chilton St. James Choir, with funding by the Queen Elizabeth II… Audio

Elizabeth Kerr is in Nelson to enjoy the Adam Chamber Music Festival. She reviews Journeys (featuring violinist Monique Lapins as a soloist), Dame Gillian Whitehead's new one-woman opera Iris… Audio

Love is rooted so deeply in the brain it resides next to our primal urges thirst and hunger. And we might as well face it, we humans are hopelessly addicted to it. Video, Audio

Elizabeth Hirst (flute), Donald Nicholls (clarinet), Lynn Robinson (bassoon). Recorded by Radio New Zealand Concert in June 1990. Audio

Rangimoana Taylor, Mere Boyntyon, Linden Loader, Roger Wilson, Richard Nunns, Bob Bickerton, Evey McAuliffe, Whakatu Kapa Haka, Poyhymnos Choir, Nelson Chamber Orchestra, Rita Paczian. Recorded by… Audio

Performed by the Opus Choir. Audio