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Marking the Feast of All Saints today with William Walsham How's great hymn For All the Saints. Audio

In this special Anzac Day episode of Blue Smoke, Chris Bourke explores New Zealand music during wartime, from the First World War to the Korean War, uncovering overlooked gems and forgotten songs… Video, Audio

We celebrate Easter Day with a Festal Choral Eucharist from Wellington Cathedral of St Paul. Audio

Celebrating the Feast of All Saints this week, with hymns including For all the saints and Let saints on earth in concert sing. Audio

Dr Qu Mai Nguy n Phan's latest novel Dust Child sets out to subvert Hollywood movie stereotypes of Vietnamese women being subservient and passive. She talks to Paula Morris in this highlight of the… Audio

The Auckland Philharmonia presents its annual Christmas concert. For 2022, their guests are soprano Anna Leese, the Graduate Choir New Zealand and conductor Benjamin Bayl. Audio

From a standing start of little tank engines chugging along wooden rails, New Zealand built a vast rail network, made up of enough steel rail to wrap halfway around the moon. Video, Audio

The 1950s saw an explosion of youth culture. “Bodgies and widgies' ' tearing round on motorbikes & hanging out in milk bars scandalised many Kiwi adults. Was “the teenager” invented in the 1950s? And… Video, Audio

The Ngati Porou composer Tuini Ngāwai (1910-1965) is not well-known outside the Maori world, even though many of the 300-plus songs she composed are still sung all over Aotearoa-New Zealand. The… Video, Audio

Sound historian Sarah Johnston explores 100 years of radio in a talk at the National Library, focusing on the early decades and the innovative World War II radio Mobile Unit recordings. Audio

Writers of TVNZ's new series The Panthers, Tom Hern and Nua Finau, join Charlotte to chat about how the show came together, its importance, and it's incredible soundtrack on this episode of The… Video, Audio

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Audio

Steven Johnson's new book, Enemy of All Mankind is also a harrowing account of the most dastardly pirate you've probably never heard of, Henry Every, and the brutal lifestyle and appalling existence… Audio

Military wives is about an army social club choir, run by two bickering choir directors. Starring Kristen Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan. Video, Audio

Last weekend marked the 75th anniversary of the arrival in New Zealand of over 700 Polish child refugees during World War II. Commemorations were held at Pahīatua. Video, Audio, Gallery

A Spanish nobleman attacking a windmill; birdsong; drunken soldiers singing folk songs - just some of the musical depictions in NZ Barok's final concert of 2019. Audio

In this week's programme, hymns to mark All Saints' Day and Reformation Day. And there's a great arrangement for brass band of Handel Parker's Deep Harmony. Audio

John Bluck explores what it means to be Pakeha in a series of talks. This sixth and final episode is entitled How might it be? Audio