History
Rare photo collection going digital
The stiff poses of Victorian folk etched in glass and stored in a Nelson archive have slowly made their way into the digital era.
Restoring a history embedded in glass
A long-running project to preserve rare photographs held by the Nelson Provincial Museum, has been given a last-minute financial boost to help it over the finish line, as our Nelson reporter Tracy… Audio
The role of women an an online world which is often hostile towards them
In this second of a series of three panel discussions about contemporary feminism, Megan Whelan talks with four women actively involved with the digital world: Anna Guenther, the co-founder of Pledge… Audio
On the frontline: Women in WWI
A hundred years on, World War One has been on our minds for the past few years. Mostly it's been from the point of view of the men who fought and died - or survived.
Recovery - Women's Overseas… Audio
Samantha Owens and Michael Brown - Beautiful Band Rotundas
The story of band rotundas is being told at an exhibition An Ornament to the Town-The Band Rotunda in New Zealand, at the Turnbull Gallery at the National Library of New Zealand. The exhibition is the… Audio
Roy Vaughan and Bernard Tairea - Pasifika at 25
Auckland's Pasifika Festival, held annually at Western Springs, attracts around 200,000 visitors every year. Welshman Roy Vaughan co-founded the festival and Bernard Tairea is the festival's Cook… Audio
Harry Leslie Smith - 'Don't let the mean streets of my past be our future'
94-year-old British author Harry Leslie Smith talks to Kim Hill about his campaign to push for the preservation of Britain's National Health Service and the need for his peers to agitate for change. Audio
Govt rejects NZ First 'shoulder tap' claim
Former Prime Minister Jenny Shipley's appointment to a role worth $28,000 for about 20 days work a year is completely above board, the government says.
The History of Football in New Zealand
The winter football season is about to begin for thousands of New Zealanders. Football is extremely popular in NZ. However, we have literally hundreds of books on our rugby history and very little on… Audio
Only on 3
It's been a wild three-decade ride for broadcaster TV3. They launched in 1989 as an energetic alternative to state-owned Television New Zealand and proved they had what it took to survive - but not… Audio
Nights' Pundit - Damien Fenton
It was a hundred years ago two months ago that the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade played the decisive role in capturing Rafa (9 January 1917), the-then last remaining Ottoman outpost in the Sinai… Audio
The Bone Feeder - a haunting new opera
In 1902, a steamship called the SS Ventnor sunk off the coast of the Hokianga. On board were the bones of nearly 500 Chinese gold miners for burial in their homeland of Canton. A century later their… Audio, Gallery
The Bone Feeder - a haunting new opera
In 1902, a steamship called the SS Ventnor sunk off the coast of the Hokianga. On board were the bones of nearly 500 Chinese gold miners for burial in their homeland of Canton. A century later their…
AudioNovelist Bonnie Etherington remembers her childhood in West Papua
There's been precious little fiction set in the Papua region, though Lloyd Jones' Mr Pip offered an insight into the islands' recent past. Short story and travel-writer Bonnie Etherington grew up in… Audio
The Holocaust: the voices of victims and killers
TV producer and historian Laurence Rees has spent 25 years on his latest book, The Holocaust. It contains personal testimony of both survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust and shows the inner… Audio
George Farrant on preserving historic Auckland
Auckland Council's Principal Heritage Advisor George Farrant has overseen the restoration of the Civic Theatre, the Auckland Town Hall, the Auckland Art Gallery and The Pah Homestead. Audio
Phil Garland on Barefeet and Pohutukawa (2010)
Phil Garland - 'the father of New Zealand folk music' joined Wayne Mowat in the RNZ Studio to sing some songs and talk about his book 'Faces in the Firelight: New Zealand Folk Song & Story' for the… Audio
Landfall New Zealand (1977)
A musical documentary based on 19th century folk songs, featuring Phil Garland, Christine Smith and the Canterbury Crutchings Bush & Ceilidh Band . It was awarded 1st place in the 1977 Japanese Hosa… Audio
‘Singing Historian’ Phil Garland dies
A well-loved and respected New Zealand folk balladeer – the ‘the Godfather of NZ folk music’ – has died. Video
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
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A fluid dynamics specialist talks to Bryan Crump about the collapse of a molasses tank in Boston which killed 19 people. Audio, Gallery
