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Spectrum for 7 August 2011
12:10 PM.The Wellington Vintage Machinery Club collects everything from old typewriters to tractors, their motto is 'don't throw it away, restore it and display'. And if you want to find out how your… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 31 July 2011
12:10 PM.Not everyone can explore the universe from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Some people have to make do with their backyard deck. While amateur astronomer Jennie McCormick is one such person… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 24 July 2011
12:15 PM.Deborah Nation joins Antarctic Society members at the Naval Point Club in Lyttelton for a midwinter celebration dinner a century after Scott and the Terra Nova party sat down to seal, soup, roast beef… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 17 July 2011
12:15 PM.New Zealand was the first country in the world to anticipate the power of the new medium of radio and passed a Wireless Telegraphy Act in 1903. In July 1911, the country's first radio station, ZLW… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 10 July 2011
12:10 PM.'I used to be shy at reading. Now I'm confident and learning amazing new words.' Just one happy student who's taken part in One Tree Hill College's reading enrichment programme. Each week a posse of… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 3 July 2011
12:10 PM.The Volcano Café was damaged beyond repair by a 6.3 Earthquake, in February this year. Owners Lois Ogilvie and Peter Llewellyn Evans remember their 23 years in business along with personality waiter… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 26 June 2011
12:10 PM.The old farmhouse stove is the only potbelly you'll see at the Gentle World vegan community in Northland. The 15 or so who live in the Victoria valley near Kaitaia are slim, fit and healthy and proud… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 19 June 2011
12:10 PM.Aileen, Leena and Diane meet each week to sort dozens of woollen garments, destined for needy new born babies at the 'Kidz First' Children's Hospital in South Auckland. They've been knitting all their… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 12 June 2011
12:15 PM.Deborah Nation visits the site of a once forgotten Chinese camp near Lawrence in Central Otago. Established during the gold rush of the 1860s, the camp is now being given the respect its due thanks to… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 5 June 2011
12:10 PM.Helen Pratt has built her own town - in miniature. She's created replicas of historic buildings from all corners of the country. 'Helenstown' is on display in the Murrayfield Clydesdale complex near… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 29 May 2011
12:10 PM.Jonathan Moon was a boy when his dad told him that there is no such word as 'can't'. Jonathan went on to found an Auckland technology firm that's now producing the world's only 'motion stamps'. The… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for Sunday 22 May 2011
12:10 PM.Otago celebrates 150 years since Gabriel Reid discovered the first payable gold which resulted in the great New Zealand gold rush. Spectrum's Deborah Nation joins descendants of the miners and… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 15 May 2011
12:15 PM.Wind strength and constancy make The Tararua Wind Farm, on the ranges behind Palmerston North, one of the world's most efficient electricity producing sites. One turbine, with 90 metre diameter… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 8 May 2011
12:10 PM.Lisa Thompson spends a day at the races, soapbox style with 13 year-old Henry Dyer. Henry is the 2010 national soapbox derby champion and has spent the last four years careering down hills in West… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for Sunday 1 May 2011
12:10 PM.Lyttelton's luthier Peter Steven makes guitars from tree trunk to completion and counts his lucky stars his Lyttelton workshop survived the big quake of February 22nd. Audio
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Spectrum for 24 April 2011
12:10 PM.The Capital's inner-city bypass opened in 2006 but many who live in Te Aro do not think that their bypass surgery was necessary or desirable. Spectrum's Jack Perkins looks at upper Cuba St through the… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 17 April 2011
12:10 PM.Barry Steiner was twelve years old when he found a couple of interesting beer cans on his way home from school. Twenty five years later he's collected 12-thousand! They're all on display at his New… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 10 April 2011
12:10 PM.Deborah Nation meets southern woman Fleur Sullivan a restaurateur and provider of food and wine from the region.Fleur of 'Fleur's Place' at Moeraki by the sea, is now commuting daily to Oamaru to… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 3 April 2011
12:10 PM.British cars by the hundred gather at Trentham Memorial Park, north of Wellington. Proud owners show off their sleek Daimlers and elegant Rolls-Royces. A few yards away an exuberant mob of Morris… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 27 March 2011
12:10 PM.Graeme Cairns has been poking fun at the Establishment for most of his life. Since his student days he's led the satirical Clan McGillicuddy, which itself spawned the not-so-serious McGillicuddy… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 20 March 2011
12:09 PM.A Christchurch Anglican vicar resigned from her parish to care full time for her mother. Nesta Clinton is in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease. Mandy Neil has taken over from her sister… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 6 June 1999 - The Lonely Miaow
2:00 PM.David Steemson spends a night with Auckland's 'Lonely Miaow' brigade on the trail of the region's stray cats. Audio
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Spectrum for 13 March 2011
12:10 PM.A hundred years ago it was known as 'the Red Rattler', but Wellington's city- to-Kelburn cable car now rides smooth as silk. Jack Perkins climbs aboard the cable car to look at its technology and… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 6 March 2011
12:30 PM.Every year Eddie travels the length and breadth of New Zealand's rail network checking for rail fatigue, cracks and fissures. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson rides the rails around the Auckland region with… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 6 March 2011
Deborah Nation meets southern woman Fleur Sullivan, a restaurateur and provider of food and wine of the region. Fleur Sullivan of 'Fleur's Place' at Moeraki by the sea, is now commuting daily to…This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions.