Robert Kelly

It's time for our look at the week's news in the past in The Rest Is History! This week our resident history buff Robert Kelly is investigating the share market crash of 1987 on October the 20th… Audio

It's time for the rest is history when we look into the week's news in the past. This week we're going to be a tiny bit sacrilegious. Our resident historian Robert Kelly is looking back to the first… Audio

This week, our resident historian Robert Kelly is looking down at his feet. The fourth of October marks the anniversary of the trademarking of the Jandal. But where does the name come from and was it… Audio

It's time to dive into the week's news, in the past. This week our resident historian Robert Kelly is pouring a glass of wine and staring at the dregs to try and solve a 120-year-old mystery about New… Audio

It's time our Tuesday book critic and RNZ producer Robert Kelly is here to have another go at making up a genre. This week - murder most foul in historical and fantasy worlds. Audio

It's time for the rest is history where we look at the week's news in the past. Tonight Robert Kelly is looking at moral panic and censorship in New Zealand as tomorrow marks the anniversary of the… Audio

It's time to dive into the week's news, in the past. This week our resident historian Robert Kelly is looking at the author Roald Dahl. September the 13th marks the birth of Roald Dahl in 1916. One of… Audio

It's 50 years ago this week since the first ATM sparked into life and changed the world. Audio

Recovering bookseller and RNZ producer Robert Kelly has been thinking about why deserts and frozen wastelands make such good settings for fiction. Audio

It's the 80th anniversary of the premiere of The Wizard of Oz, so naturally Robert Kelly is taking us along a yellow brick road.  Audio

Our in-house historian Robert Kelly this week delves into our country's rich train history and the time when the main trunk line ran the full length of New Zealand. Audio

Release the tapes! This week our resident historian Robert Kelly looks back at the Watergate tapes of President Nixon and how they lead to his resignation in 1974. Audio

This week our resident historian, Robert Kelly, is looking towards West Africa and and Liberia's connection to the current political rhetoric in the United States.  Audio

This week our resident historian Robert Kelly reckons history has gone to the dogs!  Audio

This week our resident historian Robert Kelly catches up with the anniversary of a particularly important court case that started yesterday in the American south-eastern state of Tennessee, 94 years… Audio

Historian Robert Kelly begins this new weekly spot on Lately With Karyn Hay. Tonight Robert remembers the Wairau Incident in 1843 - one of the most pivotal events in early post-contact New Zealand… Audio

Robert Kelly pops in to take us on a tour through the works of surrealist fiction author Jasper Fforde and investigate how the absurd can provide a way to look at our present. Audio

At the beginning of the First World War maori involvement in the NZ military forces was limited and there was robust debate about whether maori should serve in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.  Audio, Gallery

Robert Kelly tries to work out why history is such a fertile ground for fantasy writers and if there are new opportunities for authors in stories that have been ignored by the genre. Audio

Robert Kelly shares his picks for the best books of 2018 which include; Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne, Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. Audio