Nigel Collins

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' 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

Jeffrey has one final family to visit before he leaves Japan. Audio

Jeffrey visits the Kamikaze Museum in Konoya and is moved by the youthful face of one of the pilots Audio

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

Jeffrey Holman had always tried to get close to his father, but one way or another the man just kept moving away. Audio

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

Jeffrey's search leads him to Japan. Audio

Jeffrey finds himself on the same piece of water where those planes went down. Audio

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

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

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

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