Arts
Red carpet rolls out for Avatar 3
Wellington is playing host to the stars of Tinseltown, with the third Avatar movie Fire and Ash having its Australasian premiere there tonight. Audio
Exhibition looks at decline in state of freshwater across Ngāi Tahu takiwā
The Unutai e! Unutai e! exhibition opens in Christchurch on Saturday and uses photographic works to highlight the realities being faced by waterways across the country.
Crashing In, Not Crashing Out
OPINION |The team talk 'crashing out' (having a meltdown) and how they cope given the dysregulating political age we are living in. They discuss the importance of bilingualism in Aotearoa, eugenics… Audio
Multi-Motu Mechanics
OPINION |The girls discuss semantic drift, oceanic pattern recognition, and shared philosophies across land, time, and culture. They swing between their favourite Pan-Pacific ideologies and the ways… Audio
Eroticism, Time Travel, and Other Home Remedies
OPINION | What does eroticism have to do with land back and fighting capitalism? This week, the Orators Anonymous gals are talking about the erotic as political remedy. They unpack ancient erotic… Audio
Live Love Land Back
OPINION | Indigenous reclamation, repatriation, and reclamation for the modern girl. We're talking about the returning and restoration of land, repatriation, living on the whenua, restorative justice… Audio
Te Wā, Te Vā, Yada Yada
OPINION | Time travel, time bending, and time dilation. It's also our last episode, so the gals reflect on their time together and how their journey has been. Audio
Existential Pick 'n' Mix
OPINION An assortment of hyperfixations and theories from the Orators Anonymous girlies. This one's for the indigenous misfits and insufferable bookworms across the Pacific and around the world. Audio
Te Papa exhibition takes visitors on a journey into nature
Breathe | Mauri Ora opens at Te Papa this weekend and uses an immersive experience to explore the rhythm that cultivates and connects all life - breath. Audio
New immersive nature experience opens at Te Papa
National museum Te Papa is opening an immersive experience this weekend that takes viewers on a journey into nature. Krystal Gibbens reports. Audio
Why some typefaces feel different
Lecturer in Psychology, Edge Hill University Andrea Piovesan has been exploring how the shapes of letters can subtly influence our feelings. Audio
In pictures: 150 years of quirky Kiwi collectibles
Christine Fernyhough has built an extraordinary collection, spanning from the 1860s to the 1970s.
Sharks exhibition shows power, vulnerability of ancient fish
Nathan visits the big new exhibition at the Auckland War Memorial Museum called Sharks. Audio
Wildlife comedy photography winners announced
An amateur photographer has won the Comedy Wildlife Awards with his shot titled 'High Five' of a young gorilla cavorting through a forest.
Don McGlashan
A revealing conversation with one of our great songwriters. He opens up about the heartbreaking loss behind his song Andy . Plus his one regret about the night he told a minister to “shut up” at the… Video, Audio
The school that rocks: Inside St Andrew’s epic prizegiving
A Christchurch secondary school's end of year prizegiving concert has become a thing of legend.
When a Margaret Mahy classic mixes with raucous sea shanties
The West End, a chance discovery of a children's book and a night of raucous sea shanties in Wellington, inspired The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate.
NZSO: Extravaganza
Enjoy an evening out in 17th-century Europe with NZSO Extravaganza - a concert of courtly music by some of the most masterful baroque composers. Recorded by RNZ Concert at Wellington College. Audio
Coming up
Introducing: Orators Anonymous
OPINION | Presented by a rotating roster of presenters, each episode is a conversation about individual concerns/interests/hot topics for the week, including headlines, pop culture, indigenous… Audio
Netflix poised to acquire Warner Brothers
Netflix seems poised to acquire Warner Brothers and all its assets in a deal worth almost $144 billion. Tech commentator Paul Spain spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss. Audio
