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From this Saturday through to next Thursday a series of events on Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands will be held to mark the 75th anniversary of one of the most important battles of World War Two. Audio

It's Cook Islands Language Week this week, and in today's visit to the sound archives of Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, Sarah Johnston is looking at the role radio played in communicating with the Cook… Audio

Dayna Berghan-Whyman is just back from Denmark where she represented NZ in full-contact medieval combat. She talks about the joy of wielding a (blunted) steel axe in 35 kilos of armour. Audio, Gallery

For Britons, Dunkirk is one of the proudest moments of World War II. But Gerard Oram Director of Programmes for War and Society, Swansea University says quite often we now forget the catastrophic… Audio

A railway worker whose First World War heroism won him the Victoria Cross has been honoured with a plaque at Wellington's main train station. Video, Audio

A 1956 robbery is the forgotten true-crime story of how Auckland's mobsters pulled off the heist of the century. The crime eventually came to be known as the Waterfront Payroll Robbery and it has… Audio

New Zealand is one of the great immigrant nations. Everyone here has a link to someone from somewhere else. But that doesn't mean everyone can agree on who should get to come here next. In the third… Audio

Opera Otago is presenting the world premiere of John Drummond’s new opera War Hero, which tells the story of Otago farmer and World War 1 conscientious objector Archibald Baxter. NZ international… Audio

Director and Producer, Lala Rolls talks to Kathryn Ryan about her three part documentary series, Tupaia's Endeavour which tells the story of the Tahitian navigator, Tupaia - and how his skills and… Audio, Gallery

Imagine hunting down all the people you have shared an “intimate” moment with, asking him to reflect on their experiences with you and then filming it. New Zealand documentary film maker Paul Oremland… Audio

In the middle of Parliament's debating chamber, in no-mans land between ranked MPs, the ear-battered reporters of Hansard take turns listening for pearls of wisdom and for barbs. Audio

Tahiti had a powerful hold on the popular imagination in the 1950s, films such as "Mutiny on the Bounty" and then later "South Pacific" had promoted the myth of the idyllic tropical island. In today's… Audio, Gallery

The classic costume of Fred Dagg is on display at Te Papa, and curator Stephanie Gibson explains. Audio, Gallery

It's an unusual title, but Susan Tolich can now call herself New Zealand's first official Wikimedian-in-Residence. She's doing a Master's of Museum and Heritage Studies at Victoria University but has… Audio