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T Rex frontman Marc Bolan was the ultimate chameleon, who's hugely influential career was incredibly prolific considering his short life. Bolan arguably can claim to have introduced glam rock with a… Read more Audio

We trace the journey of artistic director, composer and choir leader Rim D Paul and friends as they re-form the Aotearoa National Maori Choir (Te Roopu Waiata Maori o Aotearoa) after a ten year… Read more Audio, Gallery

Calcutta-based musician Debashish Bhattacharya gave his first guitar recital at the age of four. A virtuoso slide-guitarist who has customised his own instruments, Debashish has also developed a… Read more Audio

Rick Bryant and the Jive Bombers have released a new album The Blacksoap from Monkeyburg. Trevor Reekie catches up with Rick Bryant, collaborator Gordon Spittle and producer Ed Cake. Read more Audio

Stand Up, People - Gypsy pop songs from Tito's Yugoslavia 1964-1980 is a new album that has been two years in the making. Brits Philip Knox and Nathaniel Morris travelled the length and breadth of… Read more Audio

Public Service Broadcasting are two bow-tied corduroy-clad English musicians who search out old British and American wartime propaganda reels, crackly radio broadcasts and public safety films -… Read more Audio

The late Bob Brozman, a virtuoso guitarist and music ethnomusicologist forged a career collaborating with musicians around the globe. On a return visit to WOMAD Taranaki in 2011, Trevor Reekie took… Read more Audio

Trevor Reekie talks to Peter McLennan (Ex Hallelujah Picasso, DJ, Dub Asylum, video maker and journalist) who has curated his book I Believe You Are A Star and Gareth Shute (Musician, award winning… Read more Audio

We talk with the guardian of the world's largest catalogue of vintage American blues, gospel, spirituals, jazz, boogie-woogie, and old-time country music, Gary Atkinson of Document Records. Read more Audio

Mick Harvey (ex. Birthday Party, Bad Seeds) was in New Zealand recently playing shows in support of his latest work Sketches From The Book Of The Dead and dropped into Radio NZ to talk about things… Read more Audio

The pipa is a four-stringed Chinese lute that dates back two thousand years and echoes ancient Chinese musical traditions. Wu Man is a virtuoso pipa player who preserves those traditions, as well as… Read more Audio