History

Kim Hill talks to the New York journalist, essayist, critic and author about her memoirs Fierce Attachments (1987) and The Odd Woman & the City (2015). Audio

Kim Hill talks to the District Court Judge and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group with a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces. He discusses the collapse of the… Audio

Kim Hill talks to the British novelist who has published over a dozen works of fiction since her 1985 debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; her latest is The Gap of Time, a "cover version" of… Audio

Nelson Mandela's former bodyguard says the All Blacks were deliberately poisoned during the 1995 Rugby World Cup campaign. Audio

Last week on the show we marked the passing of private radio pioneer, Chris Parkinson, one of the founders of Radio Hauraki. You may have also heard another well-known radio voice of days gone-by… Audio

The play Everest Untold, by Gareth Davies, tells the little known story of New Zealand mountaineer George Lowe and British Mount Everest Expedition army Colonel Sir John Hunt; the men who in 1953… Audio

Archaeologists in the US believe they may have located the Endeavour. Audio

Jim Mora talks to the actor who played lawyer Dennis Denuto in the 1990s movie, The Castle, and Martin Di Stasio in the television series Frontline. Audio

Jim Mora talks to the Associate Dean at the School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, about the research studies of Roy Baumeister and Dianne Tice into ego depletion and willpower. Audio

Jim Mora explores the history of car logos with a creative director at Auckland agency Brandspank. Audio

Jim Mora talks to the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Adelaide, whose research interests include population dynamics, extinction… Audio

Jim Mora talks to the British television producer best known for the series Downton Abbey, whose latest project, Julian Fellowes's Belgravia, is a story available online in weekly episodes, before… Audio

Jim Mora looks back on 30 April in history, with memories and music. Audio

Dr. Sherr is a specialist in Holocaust remembrance music, as a composer, producer and lecturer. He's a guest of the New Zealand School of Music to attend the Australasian premiere of his sonata for… Audio

From Vikings high on mushrooms to soldiers on speed in Vietnam... Historian Lukasz Kamienski traces the relationship between drugs and war. Audio

Legal historian Grant Moffett looks at New Zealand's patterns of home ownership over the years. Audio

1990s fashion - apparently it is having a revival moment right now - with Taylor Swift saying chokers are the new must-have for girls and grungy flannel shirts are back in for the guys. So what do our… Audio