Jack Perkins
Spectrum for 11 February 2007
Petone's 100 year-old state houses, - unique and well ahead of their time. Audio
Spectrum for 4 February 2007
Italian settlers in Canterbury talk about their new home. Audio
Spectrum for 31 December 2006: A New Year Wedding Iban Style
Deep in the jungles of Sarawak, Borneo, New Zealander Gary, marries Suzy and celebrates with Susy's Iban family on the occasion of the Iban New Year. Audio
Spectrum for 17 December 2006: A Day with a Lady
Lady Elworthy talks about her life from her home at Maungati in the Craigmore valley south Canterbury. Audio
Spectrum for 10 December 2006: Marilyn and Edwina
David Steemson spends time with former controversial politician Marilyn Waring and Edwina Thorne, often labelled New Zealand's premier lady of jazz. Audio
Spectrum for 03 December 2006: Capital Commerce
Historian Kynan Gentry visits places of commercial significance in Wellington's history and relates them to life in the capital. Audio
Spectrum for 19 November 2006: Prayas, The Endeavour
Indians in New Zealand decide to challenge the cultural stereotype of Bollywood - all dancing all singing - by forming Prayas, theatre groups determined to change these perceptions. Audio
Spectrum for 12 November 2006: The Bird Lady
Indians in New Zealand decide to challenge the cultural stereotype of Bollywood - all dancing all singing - by forming Prayas, theatre groups determined to change these perceptions. Audio
Public vs Private: The broad picture 1970 - 1996
Free enterprise and deregulation see the expansion of private radio and public radio is threatened. Audio
From the Back Country - Deer Dogs with Bernie Chaney (1986)
Bernie Chaney tells Jack Perkins about deer culling in 1948 and breeding long legged dogs for hunting deer. Audio
Tales From the Tip Face (1984)
His years as overseer of the Nelson tip have brought Jim Hargreaves into contact with all kinds of people and their rubbish. Jack Perkins joins Jim during a busy Saturday morning down at the dump. Audio
He Taonga Tuku Iho - A Treasure Handed Down
The fall in the thermal activity at Rotorua's Whakarewarewa, has caused national concern but it has a special significance to the villagers who live alongside the pools and geysers. Guide Bubbles… Audio
Queen Victoria's Incedible Journey (1982)
An amazing document has been 'discovered' in one of our research libraries by the Spectrum team. In Queen Victoria's own handwriting, it details how she visited this country incognito in 1882… Audio
How to Record your Grandfather
History is not only a written record of events, it also resides in people's memories. Through the audio recorder, this resource of memory can be preserved for today's and future generations. Over a… Audio
Career By The Kings Shilling (Part 2): Sandbags And Singing Wire
In April 1918 George Lee was shipped from England to the Western Front in Belgium and the realities of life behind the sandbags. In conversation with Jack Perkins he gives a vividly detailed… Audio
Career By The Kings Shilling (Part 1): They Taught Us How To Kill Men But Not Lice
In April 1918 George Lee was shipped from England to the Western Front in Belgium and the realities of life behind the sandbags. In conversation with Jack Perkins he gives a vividly detailed… Audio
Massage and Mud Pools
Ian Rockell, curator of Rotorua's museum, talks about the colourful history of Rotorua's one-time world famous health spa, Tudor Towers, and introduces Spectrum's Jack Perkins to some of the pleasures… Audio
Excursions and Diversions
For the modern tourist, Rotorua presents a range of thermal virtuosity which has diminished little over the years. But exploration of the thermal area has lost much of the adventure it once had… Audio
