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Free download: Marta Zabaleta playing Love The Magician (El Amor Brujo) by Manuel de Falla. Plus bonus tracks!

They came. They waved. And they conquered our media completely, writes Colin Peacock. Video, Audio

A group of Māori and Pasifika will be the only indigenous youth delegation at the UN climate conference next month.

Back in March we spoke to musician, music producer and screen composer Rhian Sheehan for Bookmarks, and he told us he was working on his fifth album. A Quiet Divide is out now and Rhian joins to give us a taste of his live show. Video, Audio

Auckland War Memorial Museum chair, Orchid Atimalala talks to Kathryn Ryan about recognising the city's multicultural demographic and the importance of embracing diversity and having a multilingual base to reflect the stories/tala of future generations of city. Audio

Fiji football captain Roy Krishna has embraced his new-found role as a senior member of the Wellington Phoen

Niue will screen its entire population for tuberclulosis after two school children were diagnosed with the disease.

The 21-year-old Olympic pole vaulter is the face of the Switch to Water campaign - a NZ Dental Association challenge. She tells Jesse Mulligan why people shouldn't fall for the marketing of sugary sports drinks. Video, Audio

Fiji's 2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist has ruled out representing the country again.

The 1918 influenza pandemic that killed 9,000 New Zealanders peaked in the month of November. One hundred years on, are we prepared to deal with the next disease epidemic? Audio

The group of seven are the only indigenous youth delegation attending the intensive two-week climate conference in Poland next month.

Greg Johnson swings by Music 101 to play an impromptu set and share some stories in the midst of his national tour. Audio

Auckland's Superturtle come from a place where it's always the early 80s. Nick Bollinger stops by for a listen. Audio

When you think 'coleslaw' do you picture the "heavy, overdressed creamy stuff you'd get at a supermarket"? Jess Daniell makes a case for fresh coleslaw with three delicious recipes. Audio

News coverage of the American midterm elections suggests the stakes are high and the result could impact the world for years to come. How so? Tim Watkin breaks it down. Video

Elvis Costello has just released a new album, Look Now, his first collection of original material for some few years now. William Dart examines the treasure. Video, Audio

Back in 1969, The Valley Stompers formed as a Dixieland jazz band Wellington's Hutt Valley. They've cracked on for over 50 years now and are now known as The New Valley Stompers. Audio

“Women hold up half the sky,” Mao Zedong is famously misquoted as saying. In her new book, historian Gail  Hershatter looks at just how heavy 'half the sky' has been for the Chinese women tasked with holding up this last 150 years.

It's been 15 years since Scribe released his ground-breaking debut The Crusader, one of the biggest NZ hip-hop albums of all time. To mark the album's anniversary, with thanks to Grindin.net, we take a look back at the making of one of its biggest tracks - 'Not Many – The Remix!'.

At The Movies - American Animals cuts between real life and dramatization, telling the true story of a heist that went wrong, writes Simon Morris. Audio

New Zealand composer Gareth Farr explains how he's added a stunning soundscape to Dylan Thomas' words for Under Milkwood. Audio

Auckland digital artist and film-maker Lisa Reihana, recently appointed MNZM, on kiwi music and the stories behind her work that amazed the world at the Venice Biennale 2017. Audio, Gallery

Although his first three symphonies had been descriptive of the sea, the city of London, and the countryside respectively, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams could not explain his Symphony No 4 in words. James MacMillan conducts the NZSO.

Yadana Saw tours the creative space of Orchestra of Spheres – a Wellington band whose onstage garb is as fantastical and out-there as their music. Video, Audio