Wallace Chapman

Normanby School in South Taranaki has brought back the robust game bull rush. Audio

What the Panelists Wendyl Nissen and Greg O'Connor want to talk about. Audio

Topics - One aspect of this year's White Ribbon Campaign is an emphasis on equality in relationships. Normanby School in South Taranaki has brought back the robust game bull rush. The RSA Presisent BJ… Audio

It's Jim's final countdown and he rates the authors from the very best, through to those he wants to read more of, promising authors, those not quite good enough, the unpromising - and the just plain… Audio

Kiwi Bruce McLaren took the world of motor racing by storm and aged just 22 he won the Formula 1 Grand Prix. Dreydon Sobanja is the author of Bruce Wants To Go Faster - the story of Bruce McLaren's… Audio

Wallace Chapman talks to the frontman of goth-rock band The Cult about their success and the inspiration behind their new album. Video, Audio

What makes someone, or something, ugly? How has the perception of ugliness changed through the centuries? Gretchen Henderson has written a cultural history of ugliness and she joins Wallace to talk… Audio

Vincent O'Malley has dug deep into the history of Aotearoa for his book, The Great War For New Zealand: Waikato 1800-2000 - which he says is the single most brutal and influential conflict this… Audio

Associate Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell is director of the Popular Culture Research Centre at AUT. She explains the traditions around Halloween and why it's becoming more and more popular here in New… Audio

This chapter of The New Torchlight List takes in a big geographical area and a variety of cultures. Audio

If you're on Facebook chances are you've seen a friend share a picture of themselves riding high on an elephant in Thailand or patting a tiger in India? Well that could soon be a thing of the past… Audio

Kiwi group The Mockers are set to reunite for a 30 year anniversary tour next year. Frontman Andrew Fagan joins Wallace to talk about the band's success in the '80s and what we can expect next year -… Video, Audio

Jim agrees with Wallace's love for Disgrace, by South African writer J.M. Coetzee - though Jim says Coetzee's "not brilliant". He describes the Cairo trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Prize winner Naguib… Audio

Unshakeable beilefs, Pardon for gay men in UK, Hekia Parata and her husband's health. Audio

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