History

Weddings and wading knee-deep in snow on the way to Wanaka...it's been a bit of a week for Bruce Hopkins. Audio

Carmel Cedro is doing a PhD on baking, nostalgia and femininity at the Auckland University of Technology. She has been looking at Anzac biscuits and some of the myths that surround them. Audio

Roy Courlander was a New Zealand soldier who joined Nazi Germany's infamous SS during WW2. Black Sheep investigates why he chose to turn traitor. Audio

Teachers from Czech schools around the country have produced the bilingual book Annie and Johnny’s Diary: A Year in New Zealand to help Czech-Kiwi kids connect to their European heritage. Audio, Gallery

The latest technology meets some of Christchurch's earliest buildings with the release of a new app in time for upcoming New Zealand Archaeology Week.  Audio, Gallery

A British-led scientific expedition is hoping to find arguably the most famous ship in Antarctic history – Ernest Shackleton's Endurance. If the Endurance is found, there are plans to make it… Audio

In today's visit to the sound archives of Nga Taonga Sound & Vision we will hear about the sort of entertainment the troops were enjoying 100 years ago. Audio, Gallery

A series of exhumations from grave sites in the South Island at Lawrence and Milton are revealing more about the lives of our early settlers. The Otago Historic Cemeteries Bioarchaeology Project is in… Audio

The story of a nation is more than great works of art, turbulent moments of history and dramatic discoveries. Sometimes you can see the truth of a country in a piece of fish with a scoop of chips. Audio

Soul and R&B singer P.P. Arnold talks to Kathryn about her extraordinary life. She became a backing vocalist for Ike and Tina Turner in 1964, and went on to work with other huge names in the music… Audio

New Zealanders started hearing things in new ways when new audio technologies arrived from overseas in the late 19th century. From the first public demonstration of a phonograph in a Blenheim hall in… Audio

50 rivers in one day? That's nothing for Bruce Hopkins. Audio

Since the 1880s hard-working Chinese have been at the heart of the fruit and vege business in New Zealand. That history has been captured in a new book, including the story of 80-year-old Nancy Young… Audio, Gallery

Kimble Bent was one of a tiny handful of Europeans who switched sides during the New Zealand Wars, who deserted the British army to join Maori "rebels" in Taranaki. RNZ's Black Sheep podcast tells the… Audio

Choman Hardi was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1974. During the 80s her family fled Iraq after Saddam's forces attacked the Kurds with chemical weapons. In 1993, Hardi was granted refugee status in… Audio

Malcolm Smith and Robyn Curtis-Smith have transformed an abandoned West Coast gold mining valley into fertile farmland for their cattle. They've also built a house and a huge waterwheel that generates… Audio, Gallery