Features

Recorder specialist Kamala Bain brings a selection of her instruments into the RNZ Concert studio, from the little sopranino recorder to the baroque bass recorder, and gives us a taste of what a recorder can sound like in the hands of an expert. Audio

Nick Tipping, host of RNZ’s jazz show Inside Out, pays tribute to NZ jazz great Rodger Fox who has died at the age of 71. Audio

How do random events impact the bigger events in our lives and the history of the world? Audio

Emma Pearson and Hanna Hipp, two of the lead roles in NZ Opera's season of Le Comte Ory, join Bryan Crump to talk about the production and their characters. Audio

Dan Slevin recommends a crime thriller with a powerful - and unusual - sense of time and place.

Sam Trevethick and Nick Robinson from the NZ drum and bass band Shapeshifter get nostalgic with Charlotte Ryan. Video, Audio

Boris Eldagsen became the most notorious artist in the world last year, after winning an award at one of the world's biggest photography competitions with an image entirely generated by AI.  Audio

Rodger Fox founded his Big Band in 1973 and toured extensively, playing at international jazz festivals including Montreux, Monterey and New Orleans. He also taught generations of musicians at the New Zealand School of Music. Video, Audio

If you take a ketogenic break, senescent, or ageing, cells go away, a US scientist says. Audio

Tony Stamp is in Auckland for a guided tour of the music historian and writer's favourite local venues, in the final of this four part series. Audio

Contract law and ordinances - those are the elements author and former journalist Jake Adelstein says have led to a dramatic fall in the number of Japanese mafia members since the 1990s. Audio

Every human has cognitive biases, but when they collide with digital information overload, bad things can happen, according to Amanda Montell. Audio

Hear the world premiere of Gillian Whitehead's retrieving the fragility of peace, Brahms’ magnificent Symphony No 1, and New Zealand pianist Stephen de Pledge perform Mozart 's stormy masterpiece, Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor. Conductor Alexander Shelley.

Byllie-jean, winner of the 2022 APRA Maioha Award, performs song from her new EP Filter on Music 101. Video, Audio

Blacksmith Jamie Hughes crafts knives for chefs, farmers and tourists in the North Island town of Norsewood. Audio

Childhood friends Alex Towler and Jackson Harvey tell Susie Ferguson about their elaborate retrofuturistic Lego exhibition RELICS: A New World Rises. Video, Audio, Gallery

Renowned botanist Hugh Wilson has spent half his life turning a 1600-hectare block of gorse-infected scrubland back into a regenerated native forest. Audio

The Netflix series brought new pizzazz to period drama back in 2020 but with mixed reviews for the third series, its cultural stock is falling.

Director Renny Harlin brings nothing new to this first part of his remake of a 2008 Liv Tyler horror, says Simon Morris. Video, Audio

In his fourth programme for New Zealand Music Month, William Dart takes a trip around some music from our land that will hopefully spark joy – tracks by Phil Dadson, Billy Farnell, the G&T Trio, Linn Lorkin, Chris Knox, Greg Malcolm and Jenny Ward, Nola McCrorie, and that marvellous Maori show band, The Quin Tikis. Audio

Celebrating Trinity Sunday this week with a selection of hymns including Holy, Holy, Holy and Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead Us. And we mark the start of Samoan Language Week with a hymn of praise and thanks to God: Vivi'i Ia Ma Fa'afetai. Audio

Analysis - Young people trading recreational cannabis and MDMA on social media could face unintended consequences of their data being sold.

Phil Vine looks at how the science of climate attribution could prepare us for the future. Audio