A magazine programme hosted by Kim Hill, with long-form, in-depth feature interviews on current affairs, science, modern life, history, the arts and more.
The OE is considered a rite of passage for many, and Instagram boasts all the hot spots. But many locals are feeling squeezed out.
Award-winning novelist Tina Makereti has written her first nonfiction book. A collection of essays, This Compulsion In Us brings Tina's perspective as wahine Maori - that of a teacher, daughter, traveller, and parent. and confronts experiences with alcoholism and breast cancer.
What do you do when you lose everything? After being forcibly removed from their home, for Raynor Winn and her husband Moth, the answer was to set off on a 630-mile trek along the rugged Cornish coastline - a walk that changed their lives.
New Zealand adds to the cosy crime genre with Gareth and Louise Ward's The Bookshop Detectives.
Last night the APRA Country Music Honours were held in Gore, bringing the country's - best country crooners under one roof.
Booker Prize long-listed English author Susanna Clarke is one of the most influential fantasy writers of our time.
A new docuseries investigates the escalating power struggle between China and the US in the Pacific, climate displacement and colonial unrest.
Over the past 100 years, oceans have progressed from being a complete mystery to being regarded as vital for our survival, according to Sir David Attenborough. Keith Scholey is an Emmy and Bafta award-winning natural history and environmental filmmaker who has worked with Sir David for 44 years. Keith directed Ocean with David Attenborough.
After organising the world's largest haka last year and reclaiming the Guinness World Record, Dame Hinewehi Mohi is back - with the first ever Waiata Singalong series.
The battle for Auckland's Western Springs Stadium - the home of the Ponsonby Rugby Club - is heating up with two former All Blacks on either side of the debate. Mihi speaks to Sir Bryan and Ashley Stanley, daughter of former all Black Joe Stanley - she's a parent at the Ponsonby Rugby Club.
Tauranga based drone manufacturer Syos Aerospace won the top prize at the Hi-Tech Awards last night in Wellington. The company makes uncrewed vehicles for land, sea and air and recently won a big UK defence contract. CEO and founder Samuel Vye talks to Susie.
International pressure has ramped up this week on Israel - to end its aid blockade on Gaza - and stop its military offensive. Rory Challands is an international news correspondent based in London and talks to Mihi.
The government has been accused of taking money out of women's pockets - to make its Budget work. The Prime Minister has previously disputed this suggestion, saying changes to pay equity is about having legislation that is workable and not complex. Paula O'Kane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Otago and speaks to Mihi.
This week the budget dominated the news with Finance Minister Nicola Willis promising no frills after cutting new spending nearly in half. Max Rashbrooke is a senior research fellow in the School of Government at Victoria University, he has written extensively on inequality and talks to Susie.
Professor Vincent Mor is a world-leader in research into the needs of older people who has been working tirelessly to change the way we care for older adults and people with dementia.
One of Aotearoa's most daring and decorated playwrights, Victor Rodger's award-winning 2013 play Black Faggot is back at the Court Theatre. More than a decade on, the play remains painfully relevant.
So you like the idea of gardening but can't bring yourself to spend hours toiling away in the outdoors, making a self-sowing 'Forage Garden' might be the answer.
The recipient of a Diamond Dagger award, which recognises outstanding lifetime achievement in crime fiction, Ian Rankin is unparalleled in his field. The Scottish crime writer and philanthropist, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels discusses his latest.
While millions of people are living with the consequences of limb amputation due to injury or disease, axolotl salamanders can replace entire lost limbs.
Is tyranny the default of human existence? Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. But how does tyranny end?
Prisoners in a level 5 maximum security prison in Missouri are the subject of a new and award-winning short documentary out on Netflix this week. The Quilters follows a group of men inside the South Central Correctional Center, where they work on quilts to give to local foster care children.
Immunologist Dr Michelle Linterman is a Program leader at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research.
Last month, scientists from Cambridge University found compounds that are considered hallmarks of life, in the atmosphere of a planet about 124 light years away from Earth. But that finding has been highly controversial in the science community, according to research scientist Caroline Freissinet.
A randomised study of air quality in primary schools in Milan has revealed that adding air purifiers to classrooms not only reduced children's exposure to air pollution, but increased students' concentration and overall school attendance, reducing the expenses associated with absentees.
Just yesterday Finance Minister Nicola Willis pledged $577 million dollars to support film and TV production. That will boost funding of the rebate scheme to just over $9 billion.
US president Donald Trump has been in the Middle East this week - visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The BBC's Middle East Editor Sebastian Usher wraps up the trip.
Late on Friday the Waitangi Tribunal released its interim report into the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill.
Tomorrow a new batch of Kiwi will be moved from Kapiti Island to their new home at the Brook Waimarama Sancutary in Nelson.
What is altruism? And is there a particular personality type that naturally delivers acts of kindness to others? Award-winning health and science journalist Nicole Karlis looks at the type of people who are more than happy to help.
Catherine Chidgey is one of New Zealand's best known and internationally critically acclaimed novelists. She has won pretty much every prize going. Her ninth novel The Book of Guilt is just out.
Retired Australian professional boxer Diana Prazak stepped into a boxing ring for the first time age 27, having been told she'd never make it, and to forget boxing as a career.
Dr Linda Johnson and her team from AgResearch have been awarded Te Puiaki Putaiao Matua a Te Pirimia, the Prime Minister's Science Prize.
Entrepreneur Tama Toki's new venture Aotea Energy is solar energy project for rural communities on Aotea/Great Barrier Island.
A next-generation living soil developed by a husband and wife in their Taranaki backyard has been named Germany's Garden Product of the Year.
Illustrator, best-selling author and mental health advocate Campbell Walker, better known as Struthless, has amassed over 50 million video views where he discusses mental health and creativity - and how the two go hand in hand.
Elin Anna Labba's nonfiction book The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow, the forced displacement of the Northern Sámi blends history, memoir, poetry and images to depict a hard life and give voice to long-held grief.
Back in 1982, the broken-hearted 23-year-old Elspeth Beard set out on the solo adventure of a lifetime - clocking up 35,000 miles and becoming the first British woman to circumnavigate the globe on a motorcycle.
It is New Zealand Archeology Week this week and Tuhura - Otago Museum has a Treasure of Tiwai event on.
This week National introduced a members' bill to ban social media for people under the age of 16.
A fertility industry conference held in Singapore last weekend has considered some of the ethical issues for donor conceived people.
Hundreds of people from Dunedin to Auckland took to the streets this week to protest the government's new Pay Equity Amendment Bill. It was pushed through parliament this week under urgency.
We've seen the worst outbreak of violence in Pakistan and India in 30 years this week and Reuters is reporting that 48 people have been killed so far in the latest escalation of conflict.