Jono Kenyon: Battle of the sexes rages on
Defending the Caveman is the longest running comedy on Broadway ever, seen around the world by more than eight million people - and it's com...
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20 of 160 episodesNZ's first feature stop motion animation
Harry Sinclair has made New Zealand's first stop-motion Claymation feature film Kiri and Lou go Raaa!
Deidre Brown: Uncovering the harakeke trade
New research has revealed a surprising chapter in the history of one of our most iconic plants, the harakeke, or flax.
Philip Oakey: The Human League
Few bands have changed the sound of pop music quite like The Human League. They created some of the biggest hits of the '80s.
Chew your Food! Why Mum was right
Scientists have evidence chewing is good for the brain and can even ward-off Alzheimer's.
Business confidence up despite inflation pressures
The latest on the economic horizon.
The hidden threat of unexploded WWII bombs in the Solomons
A survivor's story - the unexploded bombs that kill and injure up to 20 people a year in the Solomon Islands.
Brian Tyler Cohen: Saving Democracy
With November's mid-terms the next big date in the Trump election cycle, people are wondering what could come next.
Charlotte Lockhart and Professor Jean Abraham: treating breast cancer
A new cancer treatment being developed at Cambridge University's Precision Breast Cancer Institute is returning results the global medical c...
The 2026 Lynley Dodd Children’s Writers Award
This week Claire Mabey was announced as the winner of the Lynley Dodd Children's Writers Award. Claire's she's the founder of Verb Wellingto...
Jemima Jones: tackling hard to recycle plastics
Grassroots Recycling is a volunteer-run scheme that has diverted more than 200,000 food and beverage cartons from landfill in the Nelson reg...
Antarctica's volcanic landscape
When you think of Antarctica it's more likely that cold and ice come to mind than magma and ash; but the continent is home to the largest vo...
A body needs a body - para-athletics
The Commonwealth Games are underway in Glasgow, one of those rare tournaments celebrating para-athletes in tandem with other competitors. Fo...
90's Icon: Macy Gray
90's icon, Macy Gray is heading to New Zealand. Since breaking out with the 1990's megahit 'I try', Macy's gone on to sell millions of album...
Macbeth - the same skulduggery today: Ben Kilby-Henson
Shakespeare's OG thriller Macbeth is as relatable today as it was 420 years ago. And it's coming to Auckland. In-demand director Ben Kilby-H...
Death with Dignity, Fergus Wheeler
A funeral in New Zealand can cost between $8,000-15,000, and it keeps getting more expensive. So, can death be done with dignity, without de...
Jimmy Paul, turning Scotland's crime stats upside-down
New Zealand and Scotland have a similar population size, but while our youth prison population hovers around 130 to 160, Scotland's is curre...
H is for Hawk flies onto the big screen
Dealing with grief? Have you tried training a hawk? Reckoning with her dads death, historian Helen Macdonald, did just that. It became the s...
Quake Update - Weston Kirton
A strong and shallow earthquake jolted the central North Island at 4.51am, around five kilometres southwest of Taumarunui, Measuring 5.9, an...
Remembering Emmy & BAFTA winning wildlife cameraman Doug Allan
The cameraman behind award-winning images that helped to bring Sir David Attenborough's conservation work to life, is being remembered in a...