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Culinary history: Anzac Biscuits
9:36 AM.Culinary historian, Allison Reynolds, shares the history behind the humble Anzac biscuit. Read more Audio
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The NZ Mounted Rifles Brigade
9:10 AM.The New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade was a brigade of horsemen from the New Zealand Army during the First World War. Read more Audio
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Scott Base - the southernmost ANZAC service
8:51 AM.We check in with the southernmost ANZAC Day service taking place in Antarctica at Scott Base. Read more Audio
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ANZAC around the motu
8:44 AM.RNZ reporters, Anna Sargent, and Finn Blackwell, report back after attending the Christchurch and Auckland dawn services. Read more Audio
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Mehrts: All Blacks At War
8:18 AM.52 All Blacks served in World War I, and 13 didn't return home. Read more Audio
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Prime Minister Chris Hipkins' Anzac message
10:40 AM.Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will today attend the Anzac Day National Commemoration Service at the National War Memorial in Wellington. Audio
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Aboriginal playwright Wesley Enoch
10:25 AM.This Anzac Day could have a special poignancy for indigenous Australians. Thousands of them served in the First World War and other conflicts hoping it would help usher in greater equality at home… Read more Audio
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Ambassador Omur Unsay on Turkey's 100th birthday
10:08 AM.Earlier this morning Turkey's ambassador to New Zealand Omur Unsay attended the dawn service here at the National War Memorial. Her country's story of resistance as they defeated Allied forces at… Read more Audio
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NZ soldiers in Sinai
9:46 AM.The Anzacs tasted nothing but defeat at Gallipoli but later on New Zealand soldiers were involved in victories over what was then the Ottoman Empire. One such place was the Sinai desert - which sits… Read more Audio
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Waitangi Treaty Grounds Field of Remembrance
9:32 AM.A Field of Remembrance consisting of 569 memorial crosses with the names of Maori service personnel killed in action and buried overseas has been laid and will remain in place after Anzac Day. The… Read more Audio
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Whanau of WWII soldiers receive medals
9:07 AM.It's been a busy few years for Auckland lawyer David Stone. A curious question about his great uncle has led him on a years-long mission to reunite members of the Maori Battalion with their unclaimed… Read more Audio
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Cathedral Square's first dawn service since 2010
8:46 AM.Earlier this morning Christchurch's Cathedral Square saw its first dawn service since the earthquake in 2011. The city's Mayor Phil Mauger was there. Audio
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Le Quesnoy to house NZ memorial museum
8:25 AM.After the 1915 Gallipoli campaign many of New Zealand's soldiers spent the next three years fighting in the trenches of northern France and Belgium and the French town of Le Quesnoy has a special… Read more Audio
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Andrew Little live from Gallipoli
8:10 AM.Defence Minister Andrew Little is at Gallipoli to lead the New Zealand delegation at the Anzac Cove dawn service. Audio
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Hastings to erect statue of Dolly the war horse
10:40 AM.About ten thousand New Zealand horses served in the First World War but only four made it home. One of them was Dolly who was the war horse of the decorated Hawke's Bay soldier Sir Andrew Russell… Read more Audio
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Anzac Day service in Seoul
10:30 AM.New Zealanders abroad are marking Anzac Day. In South Korea's capital, Seoul, staff from the New Zealand Embassy held a service at the local war memorial museum. Philip Turner is New Zealand's… Read more Audio
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Turkey nears 100 years as a republic
10:05 AM.Next year will be the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was elected as the country's first president. He was also the man perhaps most… Read more Audio
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Vietnam veterans to hold overdue reunion
9:35 AM.Last December was fifty years since one of the last New Zealand rifle companies left Vietnam but because of Covid-19 restrictions veterans from that war are still waiting to hold a reunion. Three… Read more Audio
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The future direction of New Zealand foreign policy
9:16 AM.The war in Ukraine is prompting radical changes to the way some smaller countries think about defence. Sweden and Finland have long been neutral but the Ukraine conflict is pushing them towards… Read more Audio
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Defence force chief Air Marshal Kevin Short
9:06 AM.As we remember those who fell at Gallipoli and other past wars current events are sadly proving that war is still very much with us. And New Zealand is operating on the fringes of the biggest current… Read more Audio
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The changing face of Anzac commemorations, 1965 - 2015
8:25 AM.Visits by New Zealand and Australian political leaders to Gallipoli on Anzac Day have been common for decades. But go back a little further and it was much more low key. Ahead of the 1965… Read more Audio
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Veterans Minister Meka Whaitiri from Gallipoli
8:15 AM.Veterans Minister Meka Whaitiri is leading the New Zealand delegation at the Anzac commemorations at Gallipoli in Turkey. It's the first official New Zealand delegation to attend since 2019. Audio
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Jude Dobson talks with a remarkable group of this country’s WWII aviators
5:00 AM.Jude Dobson talks to aviators from WWII about their experiences of wartime. Read more Audio
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Paris Peace Conference 100 years on
10:10 AM.For six months Paris in 1919 was the capital of the world,” said Professor Margaret Macmillan in her book The Peacemakers. Read more Audio
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For King and Other Countries
9:45 AM.Military historian Professor Glyn Harper has a new book out as well - it's called For King and Other Countries and focuses on the New Zealanders who served outside the New Zealand forces in the first… Read more Audio, Gallery
