Language
60 percent of youth offenders have language difficulties
Courtrooms are intimidating places for anybody but what if you were on trial and had no idea what was going on. International research started here in New Zealand shows 60% of youth offenders have… Audio
The Benefits of Profanity
Victoria University researchers, Emma Wollum has been investigating our use of profanity, how it is changed, and what is says about us. Audio
Luci Tapahonso - Navajo poet laureate
Luci Tapahonso is a professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson and the first poet laureate of the Navajo nation. The native speaker of Navajo is in New Zealand as part of Victoria… Audio
David Lawrence: the Week in Shakespeare
Kim Hill talks to David Lawrence, director of Wellington theatre company The Bacchanals, and research and development consultant for the Popup Globe, which returns to Auckland in a new and improved… Audio
Tokelauans fight to save their language
RNZI's Koro Vaka'uta reports on the struggle to save the Tokelauan language. Audio
Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris: creating an Annual
Kim Hill talks to Wellington writer Kate De Goldi, whose most recent novel, From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle won the junior fiction category at the 2016 Book Awards for Children and Young… Audio
Anna Coddington: motherhood and music
Kim Hill talks to Auckland singer and songwriter Anna Coddington, who has been nominated for the APRA Silver Scroll four times since 2010, and is a regular collaborator on the Fly My Pretties… Audio
Nicky Dunne: free books for life
Kim Hill talks to Nicky Dunne, manager of Heywood Hill, an independent bookstore in London that is marking its 80th anniversary with the world's first lifetime literary prize. The Library of a… Audio
James Geary: The Secret Lives of Metaphor
They are two peas in a pod, this is a recipe for disaster! Every six minutes, we use a metaphor. We use them without knowing it, and they are a key to how we think says James Geary. Audio
Kate's Klassic: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Kim Hill talks to poet Kate Camp about the 1958 novella by Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audio
Robert Forster: Grant McLennan and the Go-Betweens
Kim Hill talks to Brisbane singer-songwriter Robert Forster, best known for his work with songwriting partner Grant McLennan, with whom he co-founded The Go-Betweens. The band, formed in 1977, made… Audio
Teenage te reo speakers attend first wananga reo for youth
About 50 teenagers from schools around Auckland are spending their holidays in Rānui, attending the first wananga reo specifically for their age group, where they will speak only Te Reo Māori. Audio
Why adjectives have set the internet ablaze
Did you know when you describe something your adjectives should go in a certain order? That's why we're the land of the long white cloud, not the white long cloud. Audio
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien
Kim Hill talks to painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien, who discusses The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, and the new edition of Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works… Audio
Sarah Laing: Katherine Mansfield and comics
Kim Hill talks to graphic designer, illustrator, and writer Sarah Laing. She is co-editor (with Rae Joyce and Indira Neville) of Three Words: an Anthology of Aoteraoa/NZ Women's Comics (Beatnik… Audio, Gallery
Shakespeare with David Lawrence: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Kim Hill talks to David Lawrence is research and development consultant for the Popup Globe, and director of The Bacchanals, a Wellington theatre company he founded in 2000 to explore text-based… Audio
As their nation sinks, Tuvaluans raise their language
New Zealand's Tuvalu community is celebrating its language week with a reminder of the country's vulnerability to climate change. Audio
Tuvaluans celebrate Tuvaluan Language Week
Tuvalu is celebrating its culture with Tuvaluan Language Week, and many in New Zealand are joining in the celebrations. Video, Audio
Month-long commitment to te reo hard work
Two Māori broadcasters who made a commitment to speak only Māori during the month of September say even just getting their daily coffee fix was a challenge in a world where te reo is rarely spoken.
Tuvalu Language Week focuses attention on climate change
This week New Zealand is marking Tuvalu Language Week - Te Vaiaso o te 'Gana Tuvalu, for the fourth time.
