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Science writer Carl Zimmer looks at "the latest volley in a long-running debate among scientists about the human life span". Audio

New York City's Commissioner of the Board of Elections has been caught admitting that vote-rigging is going on among Democrat voters. Audio

Bob Dylan has won a Nobel prize for literature because of his lyric writing prowess. What the Panelists Duncan Webb and Simon Pound want to talk about. New York City's Commissioner of the Board of… Audio

Nine to Noon talks to New Zealand singer-songwriter Bic Runga about being awarded the 2016 Legacy Award, given to Kiwi artists who have helped shape the NZ music industry. She'll be inducted into the… Audio

Nick Bollinger revisits a Flying Nun classic from Bill Direen's Builders. Audio

Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fawzi Haimor. Audio

The Australian appointed administrator to Norfolk Island is believed to be in London courting backing for his government's controversial removal of the island's autonomy. Audio

Kathryn Ryan talks with Bren Smith, a former commercial fisherman in the US who decided the industrial fishing system he loved being a part of was pillaging the oceans and there would be no life-long… Video, Audio, Gallery

French Polynesia's government has put its case for the territory to be removed from the United Nations decolonisation list. Audio

As much as we might want to live to a ripe old age, the human lifespan it seems has reached its natural limit. Audio

Kathryn Ryan talks to US poet and language activist and educator, Jamila Lyiscott on what it means to be articulate. Her TED talk "3 Ways to Speak English," has been viewed more than three and a half… Audio

The late Studs Terkel has been described as the 20th century's greatest listener. In a career spanning seven decades Studs, he showed an uncanny ability to elicit fascinating stories from a who's-who… Audio

RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson travels to the United Nations in New York, to examine New Zealand's work on the Security Council as its tenure draws to a close. Video, Audio

Doryun Chong is in New Zealand to be part of the judging panel for contemporary art award; the Walters Prize, and was previously Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at New York’s Museum of… Audio

There Are No More Four Seasons! That’s the name of a visionary Swedish duo touring New Zealand. Mattias Petersson and George Kentros make amazing music while recomposing the classics.

There Are No… Audio

A Tongan noble representative has told a Commonwealth Secretariat meeting that countries need to prepare for the possibility of climate change-induced migration. Audio

Jake Baxendale has been spending some time away from New Zealand recently. Jake’s the alto saxophonist for jazz groups The Jac, JB3, and Richter City Rebels, and he received an Edwin Carr scholarship… Audio

There's been little movement on finding resettlement for refugees held on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, five months since PNG's Supreme Court ruled that holding people against their will on Manus… Audio

Al Gillespie is in New York and joins us to talk about John Key's performance at the UN. Emanuel Kalafetalis talks about the latest Research NZ survey revealing New Zealanders attitudes to foreigners… Audio

RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson is at the UN Headquarters in New York, where Prime Minister John Key addressed the UN General Assembly today. She reviews his speech for Checkpoint. Video, Audio

An Australian lawyer who has worked with refugees on Nauru has expressed disgust at Canberra touting its border protection policy, including offshore processing of asylum seekers, as a model for other… Audio

Pacific island countries have called for help in dealing with refugees at a major UN gathering in New York. Audio