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Remembering service through music
11:39 AM.Mark Brewer served in multiple deployments all over the world, in a military career spanning almost 40 years. He shares three Kiwi songs that transport him back to three very different places in time.
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Reflecting on ANZAC Days past and present
11:29 AM.If the name Arch Jelley seems familiar, it's because Arch famously coached legendary runner, John Walker. But his years as a coach are part of a much larger life which saw him serve as a young… Read more Audio
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ANZAC Day across the Pacific
11:16 AM.In October 1915, 160 men travelled from Niue to New Zealand to join the war effort. After training in Auckland, they left for Eqypt and then France to serve with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
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The next generation - a cadet excited to serve
11:04 AM.The New Zealand Cadet Forces is the country's oldest youth organisation, offering training and unique experiences that develop leadership and life skills. Read more Audio
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The legacy of war - a daughter's story
10:45 AM.Angela Fitchett is one of many New Zealanders marking ANZAC Day overseas - a chance to connect with those who fell far from home and to remember her father, who struggled to leave the horrors of war… Read more Audio
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The war at sea - a survivor's story
10:28 AM.During World War 2, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the Allied supply route to Russia - taken by the Arctic Convoys - as "the worst journey in the world". We hear from 102-year-old… Read more Audio
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Remembering them on Rakiura-Stewart Island
10:15 AM.Communities all over New Zealand are marking ANZAC Day in their own way - including on Rakiura-Stewart Island where a memorial commemorates those lost in the two World Wars. Read more Audio
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Ten year old trumpeting ANZAC Day
10:06 AM.Celine Wu is a trumpet protégé who has played Carnegie Hall. But come ANZAC Day you will find her here at home, playing at local commemorative services. Read more Audio
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Back to Timor
9:30 AM.A group of Kiwi military veterans who served in East Timor 25 years ago have made a pilgrammage back to the country, now called Timor Leste, to revisit some of people and places they encountered… Read more Audio
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The forgotten Greek island that cared for injured ANZAC
9:20 AM.Lemnos is situated about 60 kilometres from Gallipoli in the Aegean sea and in 1915 it hosted tens of thousands of Anzac and other Allied troops before the assault on Gallipoli. In the months… Read more Audio
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Commodore Andrew Brown in Samoa
9:15 AM.The Samoan capital, Apia, is this morning hosting New Zealand and Australian military personnel as part of Anzac Day commemorations. New Zealand navy Commodore Andrew Brown is there and talks to… Read more Audio
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Maungarongo Te Kawa: Weaving whakapapa into art
9:06 AM.Anzac Day is a time where many remember their tipuna and ancestors, especially those who served for this country. This is definitely the case for fabric artist Maungarongo Te Kawa from Ngati Porou… Read more Audio
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Daughter hears voice of father killed in action
8:35 AM.Margaret Hooton's dad was Pilot Officer Daniel Clifford who was killed in action in 1942 while flying on a Royal Air Force bomber on a mission to Germany. He had left New Zealand before Margaret was… Read more Audio
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The changing security landscape
8:15 AM.The horrors of the First World War prompted the saying "Never again" - the hope that humanity would never again unleash such carnage. Unfortunately, history did repeat itself just a generation later… Read more Audio
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Anzac Tiger operation seizes $23m worth of illegal substances
8:06 AM.A New Zealand-led military task force has recently wrapped up a joint operation with Australia and seized more than 23 million dollars' worth of illicit drugs in the Middle East. Called Anzac Tiger… Read more Audio
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A hundred years of the King's College Memorial Chapel
7:43 AM.King's College in Auckland is today marking 100 years since the consecration of its Memorial Chapel. On Anzac Day in 1925 the Archbishop of Auckland, Alfred Walter Averill, consecrated the chapel with… Read more Audio
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Mahia's Dawn Service
7:38 AM.RNZ reporter Alexa Cook has been at the Kaiuku Marae Dawn Service and tells Stacey what's been happening. Audio
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Finance Minister Nicola Willis
7:30 AM.Among those up before sunrise at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington, was Finance Minister Nicola Willis, who delivered the Anzac address a short time ago. She talks to Stacey Morrison. Audio
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Carrying on the Peart name
7:22 AM.Each year an Anzac Commemoration Service is held at the Rome War Cemetery which contains the graves of 426 Commonwealth servicemen. New Zealand soldiers were part of the Allied force which liberated… Read more Audio
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Rolleston College students in Gallipoli
7:15 AM.Every year, hundreds of Kiwis make the long journey to the Peninsula to commemorate Anzac Day. Among them this year, are 15 students from Rolleston College in Christchurch. It's the first time the… Read more Audio
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The Niue New Zealand link in the World Wars
7:11 AM.Veterans Minister Chris Penk is in Niue to attend Anzac services on the island. Its population is only 4000 but during World War One 150 of its men volunteered to join the New Zealand Expeditionary… Read more Audio
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Atatürk memorial
10:59 AM.Bryan Crump and Brodie Stubbs, the manager of Te Pae Mahara Memorials, from the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, walked the track to the Atatürk memorial on Wellington's south coast, to see it first… Read more Audio
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The New Zealand Secondary Students Choir
10:39 AM.Bryan Crump caught up with Sue Densem, the Music Director of the New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir, along with choir leaders, Jasmine Hulton and Teddy Finney-Waters, and cultural leader, Siaosi… Read more Audio
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Comedian Melanie Bracewell
10:32 AM.Billy T Award winner, Melanie Bracewell, has graced screens across Australasia with her quick witted charm. Read more Audio
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Pianos on the frontline
10:06 AM.Emeritus Professor Michael Atherton, shares the remarkable story of the lengths troops went too to get pianos to the front during the Second World War. Read more Audio
