Wallace Chapman

Wallace Chapman discusses our rich history of art fraud with Penelope Jackson, author of Art Thieves, Fakers and Fraudsters: The New Zealand story. Audio

A stand-off has been going on between pro-life and pro-choice protestors in the Coromandel town of Thames. Audio

On 16 October 1936 New Zealand aviator Jean Batten made history by becoming the first person to fly solo from England to New Zealand.
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For the book, The New Torchlight List - In Search of the Best Modern Authors, Otago University Emeritus Professor of Politics Jim Flynn read and rated 400 books, mostly by modern novelists. In this… Audio

The median age in Porirua is 32.6 - the youngest of any New Zealand city - and 26 percent of the population is under 15. The Otago School of Medicine has created an app to help find out how the young… Audio

Initiatives to target obesity are not working because we are fat shaming people and not addressing the causes. Two social science researchers at Auckland university, Dr Darren Powell and George… Audio

Jim Flynn and Wallace Chapman discuss Australasian literature.

Wallace takes on Jim over Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries - too long, says Jim. Not so, says Wallace. Jim says Catton can write but she… Audio

Jim Flynn tells Wallace Chapman that Italian Umberto Eco's best work is The Name of the Rose but this comes with a warning as Eco "loves to demonstrate his learning. The plot is interrupted by long… Audio

Insight's presenter Philippa Tolley and Sunday's Wallace Chapman bring you a one hour local body election special - The winners, the losers and the big issues from around the country. Audio

Campaign: Auckland 2016 is a weekly series in which Todd Niall takes you behind the scenes of the Auckland mayoral race. In episode five, it's the last night of the mayoral proms - their final public… Audio

The late Studs Terkel has been described as the 20th century's greatest listener. In a career spanning seven decades Studs, he showed an uncanny ability to elicit fascinating stories from a who's-who… Audio

Ric Salizzo joins Wallace to talk about his new book and television show which seeks to find out how many prominent New Zealanders came to be successful - in all sorts of different fields. Audio

Professor Paul Spoonley joins Wallace to discuss his latest book, Rebooting the Regions, which seeks to address the challenges that our regions face. Audio

Back in the late '70s Mi-Sex were top of the charts with their new wave sound. And all these years later - Mi Sex are back on the road - founding member Murray Burns joins Wallace to talk about the… Audio

British transmedia artist Simon Wilkinson talks to wallace about his theatre performance 'Beyond the Bright Black Edge of Nowhere' ahead of the Dunedin Arts Festival. The show is based on the story of… Audio

The recent campylobacter outbreak in Havelock North has shown just how vulnerable New Zealand is to waterborne diseases. An independent inquiry is now investigating the causes of the outbreak and no… Audio