Tales from the festive season

Collection items

• The history of Christmas in New Zealand (Part 1)

  24 Dec 2012

  Brigid Gallagher, Vice President of the NZ Conservators of Cultural Materials Association. Audio

• The history of Christmas in New Zealand (Part 2)

  24 Dec 2012

  Brigid Gallagher, Vice President of the NZ Conservators of Cultural Materials Association. Audio

• Tales From The Back Country - Fighting Father Christmas

  27 Dec 2012

  A daily serial featuring colourful characters from our rural past. Audio

• Christmas on the Farm

  16 Dec 2011

  A classic recording from 1951, of a farmer's wife from Wanganui who shares her tale of Christmas on the farm Audio

• Christmas cakes

  17 Dec 2011

  They're full of spice with loads of white ice. Helen Leach has studied the history and evolution of the Christmas cake in New Zealand. Audio

• Samuel Marsden and the introduction of Christianity to New Zealand

  19 Dec 2014

  As Christmas draws ever nearer, so do the bicentennial celebrations of the introduction of Christianity to New Zealand. The man credited with making that introduction is Reverend Samuel Marsden who… Audio

• Augusten Burroughs - Stories for Christmas

  20 Dec 2009

  Writer Augusten Burroughs talks to Chris Laidlaw about what he calls the most dysfunctional day of the year - Christmas. Audio

• Strange Christmas traditions

  17 Dec 2013

  Why do they decorate Christmas trees with spider webs in the Ukraine? And the country where Christmas dinner includes deep fried caterpillars. Author Joey Green knows all about the weird side of… Audio

• The legendary First World War Christmas truce

  14 Dec 2014

  In the month marking the 100^th anniversary of the legendary First World War Christmas truce, Wayne Brittenden looks at how the warrior bishops on both sides managed to get the message of peace and… Audio

• Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint - Christmas

  16 Dec 2012

  The politics surrounding the origins of Christmas: Emperor Constantine and the Nicean Council, and a contemporary perspective from the Associate Priest from St Matthew's in the City, Clay Nelson. Audio

• Poetry for Christmas

  11 Nov 2009

  A word here and there may imply more than what those words meant to mean... poetry for Christmas. Audio