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She's been all around the world but she's not conducted her national orchestra in concert before. Tianyi Lu talks about coming home to the NZSO.

A study led by Associate Professor Ryan Paul (Ngāti Maru, Hauraki) has found the wider use of continuous glucose monitoring technology could help thousands of Kiwis with type 2 diabetes live longer and reduce their risk of serious complications including blindness, kidney failure and amputations. Dr Paul says the technology is a game changer. 

In 2025 Pounamu Jade Aikman was the Emerging Māori writer in Residence at Victoria University. From that he produced a new book called Whose Knowledge Counts? From Warp Drive to Waka Huia. He says it's a "story woven of my interlinked passions: Māori knowledge systems, critical theory and Star Trek." 

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Australian comedian Heath Franklin has spent 20 years in the iconic Aviators, fake horseshoe moustache and Sharpie tattoos that transform him into his stand-up comedy version of infamous Aussie jailbird Chopper Read. Ahead of returning to New Zealand next month to roll out some of his greatest hits, he talks to Kate Rodger about what life is like behind the moustache.

It's Shakeout 2026, a day and set time to practice your drill if you're in a potential tsunami danger zone. Principal Scientist at Earth Sciences NZ's Graham Leonard dropped into the studio to talk us through the dangers, and what practical steps you can take to stay safe along with the latest science.

On any given Saturday, before much of Auckland is stirring the Ōtara Markets are already humming. For 50 years they've been a fixture of South Auckland life - rich in Pacific culture and vibrancy, offering food, music, crafts and art.  One stallholder has spent 30 of those years turning up week after week - driving from whakatane rain hail or shine to set up her stall. Known around the markets as...

The Kiwi-born best-selling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz is back with another work of historical fiction, this time detailing the story of a young Jewish woman in World War Two era Paris who is protected by her piano teacher at great personal risk. Heather Morris joins Saturday Morning to talk about her new book, The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse.

With an aging population and everyday tasks that seem to involve more and more tech, technological progress marches on, but is it leaving some of us behind? Kate Rodger spoke to Melanie Stowell, a doctoral candidate at the University of Auckland, who's been looking into the way fear of technology can leave older Kiwis feeling isolated.

What may be the world's oldest shipwreck has been found off the coast of Turkey. It's a discovery that could transform our understanding of Mediterranean connections during the Early Bronze Age and show the foundations of trade routes that still mean so much today. Kate Rodger spoke to Karin Sowada, an archaeologist who specialises in Egypt and the Middle East.

East of Eden, Heart of the Beast, Tenzing and Minecraft. New Zealand locations have been front and centre in some of the biggest film and television productions. Our crews are rubbing shoulders with some of Hollywood's biggest and brightest. Director Toa Fraser spoke to Kate Rodger about the benefits of bringing Hollywood to Aotearoa.

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ESNZ releases its Tropical Cyclone outlook; The Kiwi cost of living forces hard choices; Mangere's voters grill political candidates; Pacific people struggle with the highest rates of respiratory illness in Aotearoa.

This morning's top stories and other headlines

The Cook Islands braces for what could be the first Cyclone of the season. Across the region, the cost of food is surging. PNG calls for tougher laws against violent criminals. How Polynesian Voyaging stays alive in the Cook Islands

The Cook Islands braces for what could be the first Cyclone of the season.

Across the region, the cost of food is surging.

PNG calls for tougher laws against violent criminals.

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport

How Polynesian Voyaging stays alive in the Cook Islands.

The latest news in Cook Islands Maori (Te Reo Maori Kuki Airani) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders living overseas are enrolled to vote. But many of them don't feel they've been invited to the party.

A wrap of the day's big stories