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Gallantry star: SAS Commander Jamie Pennell
31 Aug 2024Former SAS commander Jamie Pennell recounts his experiences in Afghanistan in his memoir, Serviceman J, detailing life in one of the world's elite military forces and the transition to civilian life… Video, Audio
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Minerals potential mapped: now what?
29 Aug 2024A new report by GNS maps the country's potential for new mining. Minister of Resources Shane Jones hopes the information will spark new investment in the sector. Audio
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Corruption is rife within Fiji police force - academic
31 Aug 2024A Pacific academic says corruption is rife within the Fiji police force because they're underpaid. Audio
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Petitioner reveals NZ First's original fast track bill, with hidden projects
30 Aug 2024Petitions often touch on very human stories, or on tricky philosophical issues. This week, one threw explosive new information into an already contentious debate. Audio
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Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
2 Sep 2024Today Kennedy joins Kathryn to talk about how technology is being harnessed in the fight against New Zealand's pests and predators. He's been looking at eradication projects in Northland, including… Audio
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Primary pupils can access porn on school devices, schools want better protection
2 Sep 2024Primary age students are able to view pornography, sexualised animal content, and information about self-harm on school devices - shocking school leaders and leading to calls for far better online… Audio
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'It's an other-worldly state': Bill Callahan talks songwriting
31 Aug 2024American Songwriter Bill Callahan has been writing music under the name Smog and his own name since the early 1990s. His distinctive baritone voice and melancholy songs often sound like poems set to… Audio
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All Blacks face the Springboks at Ellis Park
1 Sep 2024Rugby writer and columnist Gregor Paul joins us. Audio
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A sweet life farming salt - "just a man and his bucket"
James Moore is up to his knees in the waves at Cable Bay in Northland, a bucket in each hand. He's a small-scale salt farmer, with a plan to help others into salt farming. Audio
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London's calling, but more New Zealanders aren't picking up
Young Kiwis are heading overseas in record numbers, but are finding that the traditional London OE looks different than it did for earlier generations Audio
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Brian Eno – One Brain
1 Sep 2024In the wake of the recent showings of the documentary film Eno, each one unique to its particular screening, William Dart looks at the career of the barrier-demolishing musician and artist Brian Eno.
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Musket Missionary: the story of Thomas Kendall (part 1)
Early Missionary Thomas Kendall facilitated the sale of hundreds of muskets to Ngāpuhi Māori, helping to enable the bloodiest wars in New Zealand history. But there's more to Kendall's story. He was… Audio
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Crowded house: Tips for when adult children move back home
16 May 2024One in every three people between the ages of 18 and 34 still live at home with their parents, according to Stats NZ. How do you navigate sharing household costs with adult children who've either… Audio
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Grammar a focus of new primary school English curriculum
Children will be learning more about grammar and less about pictures and video under the new primary school English curriculum. Education correspondent John Gerritsen reports. Audio
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Winston Peters on death of Kiingi Tuheitia
30 Aug 2024The acting Prime Minister Winston Peters spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss about the death of Kiingi Tuheitia. Audio
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Should New Zealand treat misogyny as extremism?
2 Sep 2024Misogyny could be considered its own form of extremism under new laws in the UK. Ellen O'Dwyer reports. Audio
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Blue Note in my Suitcase
31 Aug 2024New Caledonian Hammond organist Michel Bénébig has a new album out, called 'Blue Note in my Suitcase'. Audio
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Around the motu: Simon Wilson in Auckland
2 Sep 2024Watercare has revealed that 90 trucks a week are carrying waste from 300 homes in a new subdivision because they do not have adequate sewage connections. Audio
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Innovative Waikato scheme pays artists basic income
1 Sep 2024What happens when you fund 10 artists a part time wage - a universal basic income - for an entire year, to help facilitate change within their community across an entire region?
Over 2022 and… Video, Audio
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Friendly labrador and brainy collie-cross take out Top Dog competition
29 Aug 2024Greta, Hamilton City Council's reading buddy dog, and Muddi an ex-avalanche dog, have been crowned this year's Top Dog with a Job and Top Office Dog, respectively, in the Frog Recruitment Top Dog… Audio
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The Big Sing 2019 - Gala Concert - Massed Choir Items
31 Aug 2019The massed choir items at The Big Sing 2019 National Finale Gala Concert from the Dunedin Town Hall. Audio
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Concern over changes to teaching of reading, writing and math
2 Sep 2024Some teachers and principals are describing aspects of the changes to the way schools teach reading, writing and maths as worrisome. Education correspondent John Gerritsen reports Audio
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Sovereignty debate sees major parties weighing in for first time
Tributes are flowing from across Aotearoa and around the world after Kiingi Tuuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII died early on Friday morning.
It ends a fortnight in which the question of whether… Audio
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Michael Snyder: Which ‘ageotype’ are you?
10 Sep 2023You're born, you live, you die - ageing, it would seem, is linear. Wrong. It turns out, the human body tends to age in parts, with some organs more susceptible to the ravages of time than others… Audio
