West Coast

From erosion to earthquakes with geologist and paleontologist Dr Hamish Campbell from GNS Sciences. Tonight, how the Pancake Rocks at Punakaiki were formed. Audio

Gay Cavill revisits the West Coast six months after the Pike River tragedy. Audio

It took 16 years of hard labour with pick and shovel to dig the Otira Tunnel through the Southern Alps, but by 1923, it was finally finished. Sage Forest spends a night at the Otira Hotel and delves… Audio

David Cliff, Associate Professor at the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre at The University of Queensland and former Safety and Health Adviser to the Queensland Mining Council. Audio

The whitebaiters of Jackson Bay and the mica miners of the Mataketake Range. Audio

Keen whitebaiters on the West Coast have been hitting the streams today for the start of their whitebait season, just over two weeks later than the rest of the country. Audio

Jim Davidson is one of the last full time fishing operators based at Jackson Bay in Southern Westland. Jim or 'Jimbo' as he's known locally runs a tuna and crayfish boat that's crewed by members of… Audio

When your work day begins in the wee hours of the morning, you can be forgiven for hearing voices and seeing shadows. But something else may be bothering Maurice Piner from Phil's Bakery in Greymouth.

One of the West Coast's oldest rail tunnels has been relegated to history. The 90 Meter long Kiwi Point rail tunnel east of Greymouth near Stillwater was built 130 years ago, mostly by hand. Audio

Back to Shantytown for some instruction in gold panning. Audio

It's a replica of what life was like in old days, during the gold mining and timber boom. Audio

With Les Wright - writer, broadcaster and historian. Audio

A re-creation of the earthquake which devastated the Buller region in June 1929: the destruction, the plight of the refugees, the struggle to break the isolation imposed by the shocks, and the costs… Audio

Compiled from official sources combined with eye-witness accounts, some previously untapped, this is a graphic reconstruction of New Zealand's most famous manhunt, in 1941. Audio

A Defence Force Bomb Squad has detonated a First World War Sea Mine found by a tramper on a West Coast beach. Audio

The story of the Otira Tunnel - an old dramatisation full of worthy stuff, in the classic style of the those 1950s mega productions for the hey day of the wireless. Audio

Pike River Coal hopes to have its mine in the Paparoa Range, north of Greymouth, at full production next year. Audio

Insight looks at the fight to stop a new big hydro dam on the West Coast as demand for power increases Audio

Paul Maunder talks about the centenary of the miners' strike in Blackball. Audio

How the children of Barry Town School discovered in the 1940s that they had a special species of bird. Audio