Southland
Derek Grzelewski: extreme New Zealand
Writer, filmmaker, former professional fly-fishing guide, founder of the Wanaka Flyfishing Academy, host of the Trout Diaries podcast, and author of new book, Going to Extremes: Adventures in Unknown… Audio
Invercargill mosques plays down suggestions of radicalisation
Muslims in Invercargill say suggestions they are being radicalised in their Mosque is nonsense. Audio
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien discusses Horse with Hat by Marty Smith, and Edwin's Egg & Other Poetic Novellas by Cilla McQueen Audio
Rejection of Fiordland monorail ends decade of debate
The Conservation Minister, Nick Smith's, decision to reject plans for a 2-hundred and 40-million dollar monorail through conservation land in Fiordland, draws the curtain on 10 years and three massive… Audio
Introducing: Shunkan
Shunkan, with Wash You Away, from her EP Honey, Milk, and Blood. https://artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/album/honey-milk-and-blood Audio
Your Place - Oban, Stewart Island
It's an Island off our coast named by early European settlers in 1841 as New Leinster. The name stuck for only five years. In the end its English identity came from the man who first mapped it. Audio
Your place - Te Anau
It's a modern village, sitting beside our second largest lake, a body of water of 344 square kilometers and 417 metres deep in places. Surrounded by imposing mountains, this town straddles the border… Audio
David Ward and Peter Daube: Wheel of Experience
Two of the creators of Wheel of Experience, a musical show that brings the 'wild west' of New Zealand to life and will travel the country throughout May. Audio
Your place - Riverton
The Maori called it Aparima but when European whalers arrived in 1835, they named it after a prominent Maori fisherman who lived near the mouth of the estuary and whom they all called Jacob. Jacob's… Audio
Dr. Michael Stevens traces the history of Bluff
Dr. Michael Stevens, history lecturer at Otago University and a proud "Bluffie", has received a Marsden Fund Fast-Start grant to research the history of Bluff between the years 1800 and 2000. He… Audio
Royal couple jet around Otago on seventh day of tour
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent the seventh day of their Australasia tour in Otago yesterday, first in Dunedin and then Queenstown. Audio
Into The East live session
This famous Invercargill acoustic duo are touring the nation with Twizel native Sarah Conlon. They're all performing live in the studio with Nick Atkinson. Audio
Southlanders prepared to fight for roading subsidies
Farmers, rural councils and business leaders are joining forces to fight a billion dollar redistribution of road funding to the big cities, and in particular to pay for the Roads of National… Audio
Haast highway strikes major legal hurdle
The backers of a multi million dollar highway linking the West Coast and Milford Sound say paper roads up and down the country could be at risk, after they found out their road doesn't exist on… Audio
Rakiura Stewart Island: the tourist levy
Lynn Freeman finds out how the money will be used and what the tourists think about it. Audio
Rakiura Stewart Island: volunteers
The Department of Conservation staff on Stewart Island/Rakiura have a vast area of national park to cover, and restructuring has not made that responsibility any easier. Audio
Rakiura Stewart Island: plans to make the island a predator-free zone
There are mixed views on Stewart Island/Rakiura when it comes to Gareth Morgan's multimillion-dollar conservation plan to create the world's first predator-free island with a substantial human… Audio
Rakiura Stewart Island: rat trapping
Lynn Freeman continues her series on Stewart Island/Rakiura, this time joining DoC trappers, Josephine Sheppard Anthony Hobern as they headed out by boat to the trap site. Audio
Rakiura Stewart Island: tokoeka
One of the biggest drawcards to Stewart Island are the Rakiura tokoeka, the kiwi. Audio