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Best known for Fugitive Pieces, Canadian novelist and poet Anne Michaels talks to Susie about her new novel Held. With a cast of characters spanning over a century, in Held Michaels explores favourite… Audio

Christchurch-born bass player Hamish Smith features on New York-based guitarist Rotem Sivan's new album 'Dream Louder'. Also this hour - classics by Hampton Hawes, and an exciting track from… Audio

A project led by Cook Islands environmentalist Alanna Smith, is taking advantage of an anatomical quirk to track turtles' movements around her home country of Rarotonga. The director of NGO Ipukarea… Audio

An online auction of historic photographs is taking place, with the aim of returning them to New Zealand hands. Australian media company Fairfax sent 1.4 million images from its photographic archive… Audio, Gallery

PNG academic says fundamental change is required after riots; 'I believe the Fiji coalition is still strong'; US Coast Guard lead says relationship with the Pacific is top priority Audio

PNG academic says fundamental change is required after riots. Audio

'I believe the Fiji coalition is still strong' - Usaia Waqatairewa  Audio

US Coast Guard lead says relationship with the Pacific is top priority Audio

A year on from the Auckland Anniversary floods, some families are still living in soggy, mouldy state houses, with holes in the floor of bedrooms. In Mangere, the stream overflowed, swamped houses… Video, Audio

Brewing your own beer used to be a hobby fraught with undrinkable results, but these days homebrew can cut it with the professional stuff, says a brewery founder.

Hilda Heine sworn in as Marshall Islands' president. Audio

Hold onto your wallets, It's official, inflation is deflating. The latest figures show it's slowed to its lowest levels in two years. Consumer prices rose just half a percent in the three months to… Video, Audio

The SPCA is slashing its adoption fees to ease pressure on its packed animal shelters . From next week adoptions will be half price whether its a kitten, puppy, pony or porka. Nationwide the SPCA has… Video, Audio

Auckland utility company Watercare has found itself in hot water on social media, after using an offensive stereotype of women to promote water conservation.

The post, shared on both Facebook and X -… Audio

The Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced this afternoon, with HBO's Succession set to dominate with a whopping 27 nominations.

The awards were initially scheduled for September, but months of… Audio

Paekākāriki has long been a staging post along the coast, a place of refuge for dreamers, poets, artists, environmentalists and RNZ's own Mark Amery.

After 27 years, living on Waiheke Island feels like both a blessing and a curse for RNZ digital journalist Rose Davis.

thanks to a range of very different reasons.

Stories plucked from the 2023 archives: Cosmo's with chooks on a cliff edge, Sally's picking apples and Leah meets a dairy farmer who hails from Japan. Audio

Disney celebrates its centenary with a coldly calculated confection, reports Dan Slevin. Video