Taranaki
Part 3 - The Riverbend
Ecologist Geoff Park goes in search of the reason why a small stand of ancient Kahikatea trees on a bend of the Mokau River has survived, despite the onslaught of forest-clearing and dairying. Audio
Museum Visit: Bowls New Zealand Museum
The museum visit is to the Bowls New Zealand Museum in New Plymouth with our guide Teena Foreman. Audio
Flashback Tales and Treasures of Taranaki
Curator and author Andrew Moffat reveals some of the hidden treasures from New Plymouth's Puke Ariki museum in his book 'Flashback Tales and Treasures of Taranaki'. Audio
New Plymouth makes a home for Len Lye's artworks
After going largely unrecognised in his homeland during his avant-garde lifetime, the experimental artist Len Lye is to be honoured with an art gallery in New Plymouth dedicated to his works. Audio
Len Lye Favourites with Tyler Cann
Len Lye curator at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth where All Souls Carnival, the largest retrospective of Lye's work, launched in September 2011. Audio
Arborist Reginald Day (circa 1948)
A 1948 peacetime mobile radio unit interview with Reginald Day who talks about New Plymouth's wonderful trees. Audio
Singer Songwriters New Plymouth
In the past five years, Singer Songwriters New Plymouth has played an important part in the resurgence of original music in Taranaki. Once a month they present up to 20 performers to packed houses at… Audio
Preserving historic graves
In the cemetery at St Mary's Cathedral in New Plymouth are the names of some of the city's founding fathers. Each stone, has a story to tell: children who died in epidemics in 1860, the man who fell… Audio
John Keats remembered
In a quiet corner of New Plymouth, on Marsland Hill behind St Mary's Cathedral, lies the final resting place of a man whose support allowed John Keats to write some of his greatest work. Charles Brown… Audio
Kelvin Day - The Taranaki Wars
Kelvin Day is manager of Heritage Collections at Puke Ariki Museum and Art Gallery in New Plymouth. His book is 'Contested Ground: Te Whenua I Tohea, The Taranaki Wars 1860 - 1881'. Audio
Land Wars Exhibition
The Taranaki land wars are remembered in New Plymouth 150 years on with the most ambitious exhibition yet at Puke Ariki. Audio
The Vault - Parihaka and Te Whiti
Deborah Nation has pieced together archival material on New Zealand's own 5th of November event. It was on this date in 1881, that colonial troops invaded the coastal Taranaki settlement of Parihaka… Audio
A Taranaki Holocaust?
Produced by Sue Ingram and presented by Chris Wikaira, this Insight programme looks at the history of the Parihaka area. It includes audio from the speech given by Associate Minister of Māori Affairs… Audio
Nga Tāonga Korero – Dick Scott
In an interview from 1975, Herewini Murupaenga interviews Dick Scott, the author of the book Ask That Mountain, the story of Parihaka. Audio
Ronald Hugh Morrison
Lucy Orbell looks back at the work of Ronald Hugh Morrison and a festival in his honour today in Hawera. Audio