History

Retired aircraft engineer Keith Martin and his wife Faith are doll doctors. Over the last 40 years they've saved about 10,000 dolls of all shapes and sizes. Audio, Gallery

After a brief career as a pop singer in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Larry Page became a successful music manager, record producer, and record label owner, working with The Kinks, Daniel Boone, and… Audio

Keggie Carew, estranged daughter of Tom Carew, reunites with her unorthodox father as his memory begins to fail. She unravels the secrets of his past as a member of an elite British military unit and… Audio, Gallery

Daisy Goodwin is an historian, journalist, editor and novelist, and has a long career in British television, devising shows including Bookworm, The Nation's Favourite Poems, Home Front and Grand… Audio

The Otuataua Stonefields Historic Reserve, in South Auckland, is home to New Zealand's earliest gardens and is a significant archaeological site. Audio

Every year in New Zealand we celebrate the foiling of a 17^th Century Catholic terrorist plot. Audio

Today in our visit to the sound archives of Nga Taonga Sound & Vision we are playing recordings about New Zealands' trains. Video, Audio

A group of volunteers is working on plans for a national memorial to those killed in the Mount Erebus crash. They want one erected by 2019. Audio

Arthur Worthington was a con artist who travelled the USA, marrying rich women then abandoning them and stealing all their money. Eventually with private detectives hot on his tail in 1890 he jumped… Audio

What makes someone, or something, ugly? How has the perception of ugliness changed through the centuries? Gretchen Henderson has written a cultural history of ugliness and she joins Wallace to talk… Audio

Vincent O'Malley has dug deep into the history of Aotearoa for his book, The Great War For New Zealand: Waikato 1800-2000 - which he says is the single most brutal and influential conflict this… Audio

Thirty years after the release of their debut album, Neil Finn and Nick Seymour from Crowded House talk about the making of the record and the evolution of the songs from home demos to finished studio… Audio, Gallery

Kim Hill talks to Andrew Sharp, Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Auckland, who has lived in London since 2006. His major new book is The World, the Flesh and the Devil: The… Audio