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Settling The Score 2025: About Your Choices
Hundreds of people have requested their most loved classical music for broadcast on Labour Day Monday on RNZ Concert. It is going to be wonderful listening. Until then, enjoy some interesting trends drawn from those requests.
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Louisa Williamson live at Wellington Jazz Festival 2024
3 Oct 2025Saxophonist and composer Louisa Williamson and her band perform 'The Chasm Where We Fall Into Each Other' - inspired by the ancient Patuna Chasm in the Wairarapa - as part of the 2024 Wellington Jazz Festival. Audio
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Soweto Gospel Choir: HOPE live at AAF
29 Sep 2025Listen to the Soweto Gospel Choir's performance 'HOPE' at the Auckland Arts Festival in 2025. The South African choir is known for its powerful blend of African gospel music, freedom songs, and international classics.
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Pūmanawa - a celebration of kapa haka
19 Sep 2025Pūmanawa embodies the ideals of legacy, talent and dedication to a centuries-old way of celebration as four kapa sing and haka with full voices, fierce wairua (spirit) and boundless energy. Listen online now.
Programmes
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Morning Report
RNZ National’s flagship news programme known for breaking news stories, incisive interviews with politicians across the political spectrum and newsmakers and commentators from Aotearoa and…
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8 'til Late
Join Corey Fuimaono and Ellie Marsden as they explore all things weird and wonderful. Throwback tracks, absurd chats and so much more.
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Afternoons
Jesse Mulligan presents an upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time.
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Spectrum at War
World War One treasures from deep in the archives of Spectrum.
Presenters
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Lisa Owen
Station: National
Programme: Checkpoint
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Davina Zimmer
Station: National
Programme: The Detail
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Sharon Brettkelly
Station: National
Programme: The Detail
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Jim Mora
Station: National
Programme: Sunday Morning
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Marama T-Pole
Stations: Pacific, National
Programme: News
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Colin Peacock
Station: National
Programme: Mediawatch
Today’s Schedule
12:00 AM. All Night Programme
A selection of the best RNZ National interviews and features.
6:00 AM. Country Life
Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)
12:10 PM. Māpuna with Julian Wilcox
Julian talks to Māori throughout Aotearoa, from sports legends to business leaders, to artists and community advocates.
1:06 PM. Music 101
The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from New Zealand and the world
5:00 PM. The World at Five
A roundup of today's news and sport (RNZ)
5:10 PM. Focus on Politics
5:30 PM. Tagata O Te Moana
A weekly Pacific magazine programme features New Zealand and regional Pacific news, issues, information and music.
6:06 PM. Nashville Babylon
Mark Rogers offers the very best in Americana, alt country, folk, soul and blues music (RNZ)
7:06 PM. Saturday Night with Phil O'Brien
An evening of requests, nostalgia and musical memories (RNZ)