History
Maori University thriving 30 years on
Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi is one of three Maori Universities. It began with two relocatable classrooms in Whakatane, teaching programmes that included a Certificate in Maori Studies and a… Audio
Te Karere celebrates 40th Anniversary
On Monday 21 February, the Maori News programme 'Te Karere' celebrates its 40th Anniversary. What began in 1982 as a four minute news programme in Te Reo Maori fighting for air time and resource to… Audio
History with Dr Grant Morris: Parliament’s lawn
Historian Dr Grant Morris talks to Jesse about the Parliament lawn and the protests, celebrations, ceremonies and picnics he's seen there over the past two decades. Audio
NZ Sporting History: 2011 Rugby World Cup
Sports broadcaster James McOnie talks Jesse through the memorable 2011 Cup and the nail-biting finish. Audio
Fears for 103-year-old war memorial building
Heritage advocates are calling for a 103-year-old war memorial building in Christchurch to be saved from demolition. Audio
Whanganui museum appoints curatorial team for famed taonga Māori collection
The museum's famed collection of taonga Māori will be overseen by a Māori curatorial collective in the first arrangement of its kind in Aotearoa.
Case #034 - Raurimu
Six people were killed and four injured when Stephen Anderson took his father's shotgun and went on a rampage in the sleepy North Island settlement of Raurimu, in 1997. Michael Morrah interviewed… Audio
Heke Rua: a campus for our taonga
The ground has been turned and the building begun for a new whare for more than 7 million important documents. A building of national significance, Heke Rua Archives, the new purpose-built archives… Audio
Blue Smoke: The Beatles and NZ Music - Part 1
The arrival of The Beatles' music in New Zealand required a response, whether you were for or against. Young musicians reacted quickly: if you didn't comb your hair forward, suddenly you looked dated… Audio
Search continues for wreckage of plane that went missing in 1962
What happened to a pilot and four passengers aboard an ill-fated flight that went missing between Christchurch and Milford Sound 60 years ago is still a mystery.
Hapū adamant on return of ancestral lands destined for Crown ownership
Tribal members of Ngāti Takapari, Te Waiariki and Ngāti Kororā hapū are contesting the Ngunguru Sandspit & Protection Society bid.
'Incredible stuff': History, science and art in the mix for Fiordland expedition
An expedition into one of Aotearoa's most remote areas has unlocked some long-hidden secrets, and will give Kiwis a glimpse into an unseen past.
NZ Sporting History: All Whites make the 1982 FIFA World Cup
For NZ Sporting History today we go back to a defining moment for sport in 1982. For the first time ever, the All Whites qualified for the Fifa World Cup. Jesse Mulligan speaks to Ricki Herbert. Audio
The Fight for Ukranian Independence
Military Historian Damien Fenton takes a timely look the history of Ukrainian efforts to fight for their independence since WWI. Audio
Case #033 - Honora Parker
In the winter of 1954, two schoolgirls - Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme - murdered Pauline’s mother on a remote walking track in Christchurch. Author Peter Graham recounts the events leading to… Audio
Why Māori adoptees and their descendants need law change
A truly personal story lies behind Erica Newman's ground-breaking research that is helping reshape family relations in New Zealand. Audio
Evolutionary Thinking: On Darwinism, Doubt and Dunedin
Dunedin citizens were embroiled in a tempestuous public debate over Darwin's Theory of Evolution in the 1880s says Dr Rosi Crane. She speaks with Lynn Freeman about these fractious times. Audio
The women of the New Zealand goldfields
Frustrated by the lack of information about the many women who made a living on the New Zealand goldfields in the 1800s, Canterbury Museum researcher Julia Bradshaw went in search of them and speaks… Audio
Queen Elizabeth quietly marks 70 years on the British throne
Queen Elizabeth marks 70 years on the British throne on Sunday, a milestone never reached by any of her predecessors over the past 1000 years.
Erica Newman: Maori adoptees finding their turangawaewae
The 1955 Adoption Act allowed adoptive parents to sever ties with a child's birth parents, and left few options for adoptees to access information about them. For Maori who went through the system as… Audio
