History

The Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex have put any differences aside overnight, uniting to unveil a statue to their late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

Princes William and Harry attended a low-key… Audio

In our look back in history tonight - we're going back to 1999. On the first of July the new Scottish Parliament was opened by Queen Elizabeth, the first time Scotland had its own parliament for… Audio

NZ Screen history today looks back to the Holmes show. Former TVNZ Head of News and Current Affairs and original executive producer Paul Cutler, alongside another former EP, Susan Baldacci, join Jesse… Audio

History won't be re-written, but it will be re-learned and taught under the new New Zealand history curriculum.  Audio

The Abuse in Care inquiry looking at abuse of young people at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s, has concluded.

After two weeks and two days of a public hearing and about 40 witnesses -… Audio

The Abuse in Care inquiry looking at abuse of young people at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s, has concluded with one survivor saying the darkness and shame carried by all survivors has… Audio

Musician Stephen Coates joins us from the UK with the fascinating story of how some people in the former USSR got around the ban on western music using X-Rays clandestinely obtained from hospitals. Audio

At age 94 Boyd Klap continues to have a remarkable life helping make remarkable things happen. In recent years these have revolved around the memory of Anne Frank. Audio

Founded by Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria sat at an important junction of the southern foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains. And then it vanished. Alexandria, the new book by Dr Edmund… Audio

The marriage of modern day technology and ancient artefacts has led to some remarkable discoveries in recent times. The latest, involving a 2,300 year-old Egyptian shroud, comes from our very own… Audio

Tonight we look back in time to 1939 when the first issue of the Listener was published It's almost a year since the Listener was relaunched after its near death experience when Bauer Media dumped its… Audio

Today historian Dr Grant Morris talks about how soon is too soon to write history after the event. It is always difficult to analyse major events when you are living through them. Grant Morris looks… Audio

This week NZ Screen History celebrates New Zealand's longest-running children's show - What Now. Hard to believe but What Now turned 40 this year! The creator of What Now, Rex Simpson, and former… Audio

Senior curator of palaeontology at the Queensland Museum Network, Dr Espen Knutsen, joins us on the show to talk about prehistoric sea monsters! Audio