Chicago
Tastemaker and DJ Sadar Bahar curates a Chicago music special
Taste maker and crate digger Sadar Bahar speaks to Kara Rickard and Mark Williams On The Air and shares music from his hometown of Chicago, a city which is synonymous with House Music. Audio
Covid-19: The uncertain future of global air travel
Many airlines grounded their fleets in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, while most others were forced to cancel the majority of their flights. Ian Petchenik is a spokesperson Flightradar24, a global… Audio
BBQ history: The Sporkful
Listener Ange emailed us at pods@rnz.co.nz as she's loving The Sporkful with Dan Pashman. She says the show's become a "recent podcast obsession", and strongly recommends an episode called 'A Brief… Audio
Shelly Berg - first call pianist and arranger
American jazz pianist and arranger Shelly Berg is one of the great go-to's for American singers - his lengthy CV includes working with Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, Gloria Estefan, Bobby McFerrin… Audio
Black Ferns to play in Chicago
The World Champion Black Ferns will play for the first time at Chicago's Soldier Field - as they join the Māori All Blacks, the United States, Italy and Ireland in a triple-header in November.
Craig Renaud: US documentary maker
Brent and Craig Renaud are brothers and US documentary makers and journalists living in New York. They've spent the past decade covering humanistic stories from Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Egypt, Libya… Audio
The Mutant Sounds of Chicago
Nights' electronic music doyen Paul Berington takes us back to streets of Chicago which after the peak of the original Chicago sound, mutated into a fresh new movement, now often referred to as the… Audio
Chicago to pay nearly $US5m for police misconduct cases
Shawn Whirl, who was tortured into confessing a murder, has been awarded $US4m ($NZ5.5m) in one of two major settlements in the US city.
All Blacks can't deny Ireland this time
The All Blacks produced the great escape to break Irish hearts in 2013, but three years on and in a neutral venue, it was a step too far.
Gun violence soars in US murder capital of Chicago
Murder rates in the US city of Chicago are set to reach their highest level in nearly two decades, amid soaring gun violence. Video, Audio
Mohamed Hassan: slam poetics
Kim Hill talks to Mohamed Hassan, an Auckland journalist for RNZ, and co-founder of Waxed Poetic Revival, a member of the South Auckland Poets Collective, and the 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion… Audio
Rich Cohen on The Rolling Stones
Kim Hill talks to Rich Cohen, co-creator and screenwriter of the HBO television series Vinyl, who for the past 15 years has travelled with, reported on, and become friends with the Rolling Stones. He… Audio
Nights Culture - Electronic music
the evolution of music made with devices powered by electricity and/or computers, with Paul Berrington aka DJ B-Lo... the birth of house and techno music in Chicago, New York, and Detroit... Audio
RP Boo
RP Boo explains the symbiotic relationship between dance and music in Chicago footwork. Video, Audio
Nights' Culture - Hip Hop
University of Auckland ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke raps about hip hop music and culture. Tonight, the Chicago scene. Audio
Chicago police chief fired
Chicago's police chief has been fired following days of protest over a white officer shooting a black teenager 16 times and the department's refusal to release a video of it for more than a year. Audio
Chicago braces for video of shooting
Community leaders and others in Chicago are bracing for the release this week of a police video of the fatal shooting in October last year of a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, by a police officer. Audio
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein - digital journalism
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein is a lecturer in journalism at Columbia College, Chicago and is a former database and investigative reporter for the Spanish language paper Hoy. He blogs for the Huffington Post.
…Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy's principle songwriter and band mouthpiece, Pete Wentz, talks to Sam Wicks about straddling the pop/punk divide. Audio