Peter Vere Jones
Actor Peter Vere-Jones will be remebered for his golden voice
New Zealand actor, Peter Vere-Jones, will be remembered for his "golden voice", after dying yesterday aged 82.
He had been a professional actor since the 1960s and his career included parts in… Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 8
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui.Read by Peter Vere-Jones from the book Memories of Early Years… Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 7
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui. Read by Peter Vere-Jones from the book Memories of Early… Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 6
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui. Read by Peter Vere-Jones from the book Memories of Early… Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 5
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui. Read by Peter Vere-Jones from the book Memories of Early… Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 4
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui. Read by Peter Vere-Jones from the book Memories of Early… Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 3
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui. Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 2
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 1
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui. Audio
Spectrum for 11 January 2015
The Catapult Cowboy, Messenger Mick, Simple Simon Green, The Skycop, all were heroes in comic books with names like 'Young Men of Great Britain', 'Beano' and 'Dandy'. From the late 19 century till… Audio
Richard Interred by Dean Parker
A play about the discovery of the bones of the dramatically infamous Richard III under a carpark in Leicester in 2013 and about a contemporary Richard-inspired villain who uses that very carpark. Audio
The Circus of Errors by Sam Trubridge
A disturbing fable set in the timeless fantasy world of a travelling circus where the Ringmaster rules and dreadful secrets are buried and forgotten. Audio
Leslie Quartermain: an Antarctic explorer's letters home from WWI
Leslie B Quartermain is remembered largely for his connections with the Antarctic and his books on the Southern Continent. But there's an earlier, more personal body of his literature - his letters… Audio