Jack Perkins

A daily serial featuring colourful characters from our rural past. Audio

A daily serial featuring colourful characters from our rural past. Audio

A daily serial featuring colourful characters from our rural past. Audio

A daily serial featuring colourful characters from our rural past. Audio

Featuring dairy farmer Norm Bryan from the far north. Audio

We are revisiting 'Tales from the Back Country', a series of historic programs that ran on the Radio New Zealand network for over 12 years. Audio

When he's not producing Spectrum documentaries for Radio New Zealand, Jack Perkins is writing poetry. Contact Jack via email on jperkins@paradise.net.nz for copies of his book, Out of Time. Audio

Just days before Christmas, a Christchurch homeless man shares his world with Spectrum. In the wasteland near the central city but outside the patrolled red-zone, vagrants and squatters have never had… Audio

Dannevirke's main street boasts a Fantasy Cave, maintained by a tight core of 13 cave-dwelling locals with an impressive array of skills, supported by an army of volunteers. Beginning in 1989 as a… Audio

Members of the Association of Blind Citizens visit The Suter Art Gallery in Nelson and take a rare opportunity to touch the art and sculpture on show. Audio

Change in Farming Audio

Wellington Kindergartens developed The YMen project with help from government. It addresses the chronic shortage of men working in childhood education and also the high rates of unemployment among… Audio

On 23rd February 1855, a magnitude 8.2 earthquake - the most powerful ever recorded in New Zealand - rocked the southern part of the North Island. In this documentary, Jack Perkins explores what… Audio

Ten years after the event, Jack Perkins assembles a group of Edgecumbe residents to relive the experience, and trace its effects not only on the landscape but on their own lives. The result is a… Audio

The Nelson Ark Audio

Spectrum's Jack Perkins records at a self defence course for 11 to 13 year-old girls at Wellington's Holy Cross school. In 2011 alone, 11,463 girls from around the country attended Self Defence… Audio

The original 2 roomed cottage, built in the 1840s, sits on whale vertebrae from Kaikoura's shore-based whaling station. The rest of Fyffe House reflects the hardships endured by the families who lived… Audio

Every so often Pearl, Basil, Monty and Cracker like to get together with thirty of their mates for a Saturday morning walk. Oh, and thirty humans come too. You see P, B, M and C are all beagles, a… Audio

Te Aro Medical Centre Audio

Hutt River News Report Audio