Great War
Jane Tolerton: Kiwi teens on the Western Front
Historian Jane Tolerton helped set up the WWI Oral History Archive that recorded the voices of 84 veterans. She's used material from that as the basis to her latest timely work - it's an e-book called… Audio, Gallery
Rupert and Chris Powell: descendants' big part in special day
Lieutenant Colonel Chris Powell is a member of the Army Reserves, and will attend the Armistice Day service today at Auckland War Memorial Museum with his 14 year old son Rupert, who has a special… Audio
Other Armistice events
Wallace Chapman wraps up other Armistice events around the country. Audio
Jo Brookbanks: War Memorial Museum Armistice Commemorations
Jo Brookbanks from the Auckland War Memorial Museum covers off a big day for the museum open late to reflect the occasion of World War One ending 100 years ago. Audio, Gallery
Herb Farrant: Le Quesnoy museum a dream finally being realised
Historian Herb Farrant talks about why a museum in the French town of Le Quesnoy has been such a mission. November 4 marks one of the final commemorative events of World War I - other than Armistice… Audio
Christopher Pugsley on the legend of Le Quesnoy
November 4 is a special date for a little town in France called Le Quesnoy and for the people who liberated it - the New Zealanders. Military historian Christopher Pugsley has written a book called Le… Audio, Gallery
Paul Turner: wartime lament over pudding
The first World War is familiar territory to Paul Turner, founder of the music collective Ceol Manawatu. He talks about the history of one of the band's songs - the Maunganui Duff. Audio
Ghosts bring new life to WW1 exhibition
A 100-year-old trick is being used to project the images of soldiers in a new feature for the Great War exhibition at the Dominion Museum in Wellington. Jed Brophy, one of the actors involved in the… Audio
Jane Tolerton: the forgotten Kiwi women of WWI
We may have been the first country to give women the vote, but the New Zealand women who served in WWI as doctors, ambulance drivers and munitions workers have largely been left out of our written… Audio