Taranaki

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

The museum visit is to the Bowls New Zealand Museum in New Plymouth with our guide Teena Foreman. Audio

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

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 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

A 1948 peacetime mobile radio unit interview with Reginald Day who talks about New Plymouth's wonderful trees. Audio

New Plymouth's Tupare garden have been refurbished. Audio

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

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

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 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

The Taranaki land wars are remembered in New Plymouth 150 years on with the most ambitious exhibition yet at Puke Ariki. Audio

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

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

In an interview from 1975, Herewini Murupaenga interviews Dick Scott, the author of the book Ask That Mountain, the story of Parihaka. Audio

Poi E is back in the countdown, 26 years after it first topped the charts. Audio

Lucy Orbell looks back at the work of Ronald Hugh Morrison and a festival in his honour today in Hawera. Audio