History
'This is deeper into The Beatles than we've been before'
Beatles fans have been awaiting Sir Peter Jackson's new three-part documentary 'The Beatles - Get Back' with keen anticipation ever since the project was first announced. Using 60 hours of footage and… Audio, Gallery
Facing up to the Eighties - an exhibition of portraits
The flashy 1980s are remembered for being wildly over the top - big hair and big shoulder pads, Dynasty, Duran Duran and Michael Jackson. But in Aotearoa it was also a decade of protests and change… Audio, Gallery
Exactly 100 years after the birth of radio in NZ, Sarah Johnston looks back at its early decades
Sound historian Sarah Johnston explores 100 years of radio in a talk at the National Library, focusing on the early decades and the innovative World War II radio Mobile Unit recordings. Audio
Covid battle takes to the skies with flights featuring Māori Battalion
As Aotearoa wages a war against Covid, there's a new battle to get vaccine rates up on the East Coast.
The descendants of the Māori Battalion are being invited to aerodromes on Saturday to get… Video, Audio
Radio Memories with Lloyd Pallensen
We've been getting so many lovely radio memories to celebrate 100 years of radio. Today Lloyd Pallensen shares a memory that will resonate with many of our listeners. Audio
Vaccination event in honour of the Māori Battalion
The names of soldiers in the Māori Battalion from Tairawhiti will be flown across their skies this Saturday as part of a vaccination drive.
Organisers are asking the community to do their bit in the… Audio
Call for College of Psychiatrists to apologise to Lake Alice abuse survivors
Children in the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent Unit in the 1970s were subjected to many forms of abuse, including the use of electroconvulsive therapy as a punishment.
NZ Screen History: RTR Countdown
Simon Morris and Robert Rakete revisit the mid-1970s pop show. Audio
100 years of radio, listeners' memories
We continue to celebrate 100 years of radio with our audience radio memories. Today Kathryn Burnett-Christensen talks to Jesse about her whole family's history of radio and how it played a major part… Audio
Long-lost WWI memorial flagpole found in Bluff
War memorial restorer and bagpipe player, Ann Robbie, tells Jesse the emotional story of how a group of volunteers found a long-lost century-old memorial on Bluff Hill. Audio
Film and TV: Passing, Love Hard and The Lost Symbol
Film and TV reviewer Laumata Lauano joins Kathryn to talk new black and white film Passing (Netflix), which looks at the complicated friendship of two black women in segregated 1920s America, one of… Audio
Lost letters of Elizabeth I rewrite history
British Historian John Guy talks to Kathryn about the lost letters of Elizabeth I which not only shed fresh light on her fraught relationship with Mary Queen of Scots, but have rewritten history. When… Audio, Gallery
Goldie's 'Hori Pokai' painting sold for more than $1 million
A 102-year-old painting of a Maori chief with a full facial tattoo has sold for more than a million dollars. That's a far cry from the original 30 pounds nurse Sibyl Carr paid for the painting after… Audio
100 years of radio in NZ: Broadcasting stalwarts remember big moments
It has been 100 years since the first radio broadcast in New Zealand.
Over the last century, radio has kept us informed, kept us entertained, and kept us company.
Former broadcaster and ex RNZ chief… Audio
100 years of radio in NZ: Major news broadcast over the century
Today marks 100 years of Radio in New Zealand.
While Morning Report has only been around since the 70's - the wireless has been a staple for keeping the nation together in times of hardship, war… Audio
100 Years of Radio: memories of Radio Hauraki, Derek Lowe
Throughout today, RNZ will look back on 100 years of radio broadcasting in New Zealand.. And on First Up - where a decent chunk of the team have done their time in commerical radio, we thought we'd… Audio
How ancient philosophies apply to modern times
Hipster stoic Ryan Holiday boils down the ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and applies it to our very modern lives. Audio
The Shifting Grounds of Tamaki Makaurau
Tamaki Makaurau has a complicated and busy history. But it's a past that has been constantly built over, dug up or destroyed. Historian, author and curator at Auckland Museum Lucy Mackintosh has spent… Audio, Gallery
Humans and moa may have co-existed on Rakiura Stewart island, analysis shows
The analysis of a moa skeleton on Rakiura Stewart Island shows the birds may have lived there at the same time as humans.
Celebrating 100 years of radio with our listeners
Louise Yri has a very special connection to radio through her upbringing in remote rural Hawkes Bay in the 1950s. Audio
