Wairarapa
Warning to towns about difficulties of replacing Air NZ flights
A Wairarapa businessman and former MP is warning other small centres about the difficulties of trying to replace Air New Zealand flights. Audio
Plan to reopen the historic ferry route - Mary Tipoki
The owners of the Lake Ferry Hotel are hatching a plan to reopen the historic ferry route over Lake Onoke in Wairarapa. The Lake Ferry settlement, on the shore of Cook Strait south of Martinborough… Audio
Just A Name
Seventy years after they arrived in this unknown country, a group of Polish refugees reflect on their lives in New Zealand. Katy Gosset meets some of those original "Children of Pahiatua".
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Artisan cheesemaker says audit cost will scupper her business
Biddy Fraser-Davies is an award-winning artisan cheesemaker and says the cost of annual audits required by the Ministry of Primary Industries are unsustainable and may put her out of business. Biddy… Audio
Chromatic Investigations
Masterton's Aratoi: Wairarapa Museum of Art and History has pulled off a coup that will make it the envy of galleries around the country. The gallery's director, Alice Hutchison, has spent the past… Audio
Contest for Wairarapa seat two horse race
The contest for the Wairarapa seat is shaping up to be a two-horse race between a current mayor and a professional director and winemaker. Audio
Simon's A-Z
Between the last two census, the permanent population here grew by 14.6 percent. Mind you the total figure is still comparatively small at 8,250 making this territorial authority one least populous in… Audio
Castlepoint Remembers
Castlepoint Station and Castlepoint lighthouse hosted visitors and locals to re-enact the old days when sheep were driven down the beach and wool was loaded by bullock cart onto lighters and then onto… Audio
Spectrum for 26 February 2012 - Pukaha Mt Bruce
Pukaha Mount Bruce reserve is the last remnant of Wairarapa's once-famous 70 Mile Bush which cloaked the countryside from Masterton north to Norsewood. Spectrum's Jack Perkins looks at the work of… Audio
Museum Visit: Museum of Childhood
We pay a virtual visit to one of New Zealand's museums - the Museum of Childhood in Masterton with its founder Diana Stidolph. Audio
Bruce Stirling - Wairarapa Moana
Historian Bruce Stirling discusses the rich and turbulent history of Lake Wairarapa. Audio
Stonehenge Aotearoa (Science)
A full-scale working adaptation of Stonehenge in England, remodelled for the southern skies. Audio
The 1855 Wairarapa Earthquake (Science)
Veronika Meduna joins a geology field party to travel along the Wairarapa fault line 150 years after the 1855 earthquake. Audio
