Jack Perkins
So Cruel To Land Like This (Spectrum 1978)
Prolonged winter rains and a sudden very dry spring in 1977 left the Douglas's Wairarapa hill country farm bare of growth and vulnerable to the long summer drought which followed. Audio
A Festival of Cans (1975)
A nostalgic tribute to that most humble and human New Zealand institution, the dunny. The long-drop, the three-holer, the users, the emptiers, the designers, and, of course, the good-old night-cart… Audio
And all the Queen's Men (1974)
A recreation of the battle fought at Gate Pa, Tauranga, in 1864 and its aftermath. A previously unknown diary of the affair was used, along with a specially recorded battle scene. Audio
And all the Queen's Men (1974)
A recreation of the battle fought at Gate Pa, Tauranga, in 1864 and its aftermath. A previously unknown diary of the affair was used, along with a specially recorded battle scene. Audio
Capital Sound (1973)
Spectrum's microphones travelled Wellington's streets for several weeks to capture this evocation in sound. Audio