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Tony is joined by musician Luke Rowell and label boss Zac Arnold, to bring you six brand new tunes. Video, Audio

Ha The Unclear is a guitar-drums quartet originally from Dunedin. They released their debut album Bacterium, Look At Your Motor Go in 2014, and follow-up Invisible Lines in 2018. They had a big 2019… Video, Audio

Hitting massive local success in the late '90s, rock band Shihad (briefly named pacifier between 2001-2004 ) are a household name. Together the band produced five number one studio albums, and hold… Audio

American country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson has just released his fifth album as a solo artist. His second album Metamodern Sounds in Country Music was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best… Audio

Rob Brown and Sean Booth make up English electronic duo Autechre. Signed to Uk electronic label Warp Records, the duo remains one of the labels best-known acts. Nick Bollinger reviews their recent… Audio

Māpura Studios is a creative space located in central Auckland. They “provide for people of diverse life experience to learn, grow, and enhance their lives through creativity”. 

The studio offers… Audio

Seattle band Pearl Jam have recorded 11 studio albums, sold 85 million+ albums, played over 1000 shows, and had 5 albums reach number one. But after over thirty years of success, why isn't Pearl Jam… Audio

Rob Ruha discusses how he feels about winning the 2020 APRA Maioha Award. Video, Audio

As Historian-in-Residence of the Presidential Pet Museum Andrew Hager records the menagerie of domestic animals that have called The White House home. Recently Donald Trump's failure to own a pet… Audio

Born from a chance encounter in a Laotian opium den in 1973, Alan Brunton and Sally Rodwell's avant-garde troupe Red Mole exemplified political, provocative, creative and chaotic theatre. Their… Video, Audio

How will the global rise of populism, allied to the pandemic, shape the future of international law? Professor Campbell McLachlan QC of Victoria Law School recently returned to New Zealand from… Audio

Poet, playwright, and novelist Jackie Kay is the current makar (the National Poet of Scotland) and previous winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize. Born in Edinburgh to a Nigerian father and Scottish… Audio

Former politician, environmentalist and activist Peter Garrett first came to prominence as the lead singer of the Australian band Midnight Oil, welding socially conscious lyrics with atmospheric… Audio

Olive and Mabel are two labradors who've become social media stars thanks to a series of short, funny videos made by their owner, Scottish sports broadcaster Andrew Cotter. Video, Audio

Consultant clinical virologist at Cambridge University, and one of BBC Radio 5 Live's Naked Scientists, Dr Chris Smith returns to digest emerging COVID-related science and research. This week; the… Audio

With democratic candidate Joe Biden looking likely to win the US presidency, it's time to delve into his background and ambitions. And to ask how he is going to deal with a deeply divided America… Audio

An elderly Hawke's Bay man says he's lost his best friend - his dog Tabatha vanished from outside a Napier shopfront a week ago.

Eighty-year-old Doug Hodgetts believes his 7-year-old Jack Russell… Video, Audio

As the US enters the final hours of voting in its 2020 election, what are the numbers showing? Which races are too close to call, what impact will such a large amount of early voting have on the… Audio

The Tudor Consort's next concert marks the 500th anniversary of one of the most incredible summits to have taken place between two heads of state: the Field of Cloth of Gold meeting of Francis I of… Audio

Avid board-rider and photographer Derek Morrison's book Surf Dreams takes us through the country's popular and most remote surfing communities with tales of the personalities who ride the waves. The… Audio

A new book, Eat the Buddha by foreign correspondent Barbara Demick, focuses on protests by Tibetan monks in one town in China to peel away layers of hurt and history.

New Zealand has recently gained a cornet virtuoso. Harmen Vanhoorne is now living here, and is soloist in Auckland Sinfonietta's next concert. Audio