Jack Perkins

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… Audio

We continue the commemoration of one hundred years of radio in New Zealand. Tonight Jack Perkins presents the radio retrospective on New Zealand's most popular pastime, sport. Audio

In the first of a series looking at the history of radio in New Zealand, Jack Perkins discusses the fear and caution engendered by this new and powerful electronic medium, and also excitement during… Audio

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… Audio

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… Audio

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… Audio

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… Audio

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… Audio

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… Audio

What is it about the port town of Lyttelton that attracts so many artists and other interesting characters? In Harbour SouNZ Kris Vavasour talks to a group of young musicians, as well as Robin… Audio

Jack Perkins, renowned Radio NZ producer, has been with us a bit talking abouts aspects of the Canterbury quake in the past few days. Today he wants to take us back to Cathedral Square Christchurch to… Audio

Jack Perkins plays a sample from a Spectrum documentary on the work of a Wellington USAR team (Urban Search and Rescue) recorded in 2007, and gives us an insight into some of the work which has been… Audio

We're marking the 80th anniversary of NZs worst natural disaster, the Napier earthquake, It struck at 10-47 in the morning of Feb 3 1931. Audio

Gillian Jackson was 17 when she climbed her first peak. That was in 1948 and it set the pattern for a lifetime love affair with the mountains. She's still climbing and tramping at the age of 80. Audio

The final episode in the documentary series on the history of radio broadcasting in New Zealand. Thanks to Jack Perkins for so generously making this series available this summer. Audio

Part 19 of a documentary on the history of radio broadcasting in New Zealand. Audio

Part 18 of a documentary on the history of radio broadcasting in New Zealand. Audio

Part 17 of a documentary on the history of radio broadcasting in New Zealand. Audio

Part 16 of a documentary on the history of radio broadcasting in New Zealand. Audio