Nigel Collins
Classical:Pop - Episode 2
Nigel Collins explores the intersection between classical and popular music. This episode features music from Serge Gainsbourg, Crowded House and Nina Simone. Audio
Classical:Pop - Episode 1
Nigel Collins explores the intersection between classical and popular music. This episode features music from Radiohead, Nitin Sawhney, Mahinaarangi Tocker, and The Beatles. Audio
Classical and popular music intersections
Nigel Collins talks about his series Classical:Pop Audio
Nigel Collins reimagines the requiem
Think requiem and something like Mozart's unfinished one may well come to mind. But a new spoken word and musical show is reimagining the requiem, both the text and the music. Five Wellington poets… Audio
Five of the Family - Pt 4
'Five of the Family' by David Hill told by Nigel Collins. Jarred, isn't strictly speaking part of this family, and he knows it. Today he has vowed to himself too stay 'dry' for Joleen and the kids… Audio
The Lost Pilot - Ep 7
Jeffrey visits the Kamikaze Museum in Konoya and is moved by the youthful face of one of the pilots Audio
The Lost Pilot - Ep 1
On April 6th 1945 three kamikaze pilots and their navigators attack the H.M.S. Illustrious off Okinawa. On the signals deck Chief Petty Officer W.T Holman dives for cover. Twentyfive years on, son… Audio
The Lost Pilot - Ep10
Jeffrey has one final family to visit before he leaves Japan. Audio
The Lost Pilot - Ep 9
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman's journey of reconciliation is starting to affect those who are helping him, none more so than Ritsu Hall who agrees to write a Japanese foreword for Jeffrey's book, so that… Audio
The Lost Pilot - Ep 2
Jeffrey Holman had always tried to get close to his father, but one way or another the man just kept moving away. Audio
The Lost Pilot - Ep 8
Jeffrey finds himself on the same piece of water where those planes went down. Audio
The Lost Pilot - Ep 4
Jeffrey delves further into his father's time in combat. A seven second experience that saw six young Japanese men die as kamikaze while trying to sink his father's ship sparks the desire in Jeffrey… Audio
The Lost Pilot - Ep 3
Jeffrey wants to understand his father by learning more of his war experience. In particular the events captured in a photograph of a kamikaze plane going down less than thirty metres away from his… Audio
Jacqueline Coats and Nigel Collins
2016 marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. Wellington chamber choir Nota Bene will perform The Cloud-capped Towers, a concert imagining Shakespeare in the Land of the Long White… Audio
Te Awarua by Albert Belz
In a trench in north east France, three peoples paths converge. At stake is the town of Le Quesnoy and her would-be liberators, the NZ Division. Audio
The Lost Pilot - Part 8
Jeffrey visits the Peace Park in Nagasaki and offers an ema prayer board and sakura petals to the six dead kamikaze. Audio
The Lost Pilot - Part 6
Jeffrey goes to the kamikaze museum where he comes face-to-face with the image of 19-year-old Chiharu Nagata. One of the six kamikaze who died attacking HMS Illustrious. Audio
The Lost Pilot - Part 5
Jeffrey plans his trip with the help of Dr. Kota Hattori then begins the first leg staying with Ken Westmoreland. Audio