Best Of The Week

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 2nd November. This week ... A tragic killing which kick-started a campaign to change the law....... why Adolf… Read more Audio

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 26 October. This week ... the New Zealand angle on the banning of Lance Armstrong from cycling, sexism in journalism… Read more Audio

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 19 October. This week ... a lawyer for the Maori Council explains water rights issues, 50 years since the Cuban… Read more Audio

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 12 October. This week...... the blurring of boundaries between advertising and news, the tiny parasite toxoplasma… Read more Audio

This week...... stories the media ignores here but covers extensively overseas, the mystery of a floating raft of pumice in the seas towards the Kermadecs, reducing food waste by dumpster diving, the… Read more Audio

This week...... prior to Lonely Planet Guide there was the Overland Club - we hear from its founders 50 years ago in Wellington, New Zealand's nuclear history revealed, the history of English… Read more Audio

This week...... the law society calls for a rehtink on the use of television cameras in our courtrooms, options for curbing the high New Zealand dollar, the increasing trend towards privatised… Read more Audio

This week...... the hidden side of America's War On terror, according to a new book about the FBI; Is high-quality journalism uneconomic in the future?... Should the New Zealand Government re-consider… Read more Audio

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 7th of September. This week......two years after the BIG Earthquake in Christchurch, and the Pike River Mine… Read more Audio

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 31st of August. This week.....a veteran investigative journalist on TV is appalled at the dumbing down of television… Read more Audio

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 24th of August This week.....another three New Zealand soldiers die in Afghanistan......while our Olympians were… Read more Audio

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 17th of August This week.....Shotputter Valerie Adams is elevated to gold after her Belarussian rival failed a drug… Read more Audio