History

Recent retiree from the position of Director of International Operations, and Vice President at Marie Stopes International, after working for 15 years around the world for international humanitarian… Audio

Our next guest has been re-examining gender and sexuality in Nazi ideology, and how history views the persecution of gays and lesbians. William J Spurlin is professor of english and director of… Audio

An historic piece of alpine history has turned up at a most unusual place. The very first log book of the West Coast Alpine Club has been found, dumped at the Greymouth tip. It dates back to the… Audio

Opo, the Crazy Dolphin was a big hit released 60 years ago this week at the end of 'the summer of Opo', when thousands of Kiwis flocked to Opononi in Hokianga Harbour to see Opo, the dolphin which… Audio

Oamaru's historic courthouse will be restored, seismically strengthened and re-opened. Audio

Heather Eggleton recalls her time on 'It's in the bag' and remembers Selwyn Toogood. Audio

Ex RNZ programmer Jonny Douglas talks about the 1964 Beatles tour in Wellington and his interview with them. Audio

An early mining settlement in the mountains of Germany that now produces carved wooden toys is where New Zealand artist Oscar Enberg is heading. He's just been announced as this year's recipient of… Audio

What gets published and what doesn't? How is it presented and illustrated? What gets heavily-edited and what sticks close to the original? These are all decisions made behind the closed doors of the… Audio

Rick Gekoski is regarded as one of the world's leading bookmen: a rare-book dealer, non fiction writer, broadcaster, academic - and soon to be first time published novellist, in his 70s. He's got to… Audio

More than 80 percent of films made before 1929 have been lost - damaged beyond repair, thrown out or reused. In an effort to save what remains, film maker Martin Scorsese set up the Film Foundation in… Audio

The Ministry for Culture and Heritage is openly inviting arts organisations to look further afield for its funding, rather than simply relying on the tax-payer. They suggest looking for funding from… Audio

Chair of the Waitakere Ranges Local Board, and driving force behind the inaugural open day at New Zealand's largest cemetery, the first event of its kind in New Zealand. Audio, Gallery

Senior Lecturer in the Science in Society Group, Victoria University of Wellington, and editor of Dispatches from Continent Seven: an Anthology of Antarctic Science, a new collection of writings by… Audio

Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Mary Kisler, discussing the recently reopened Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Audio, Gallery

Filmmaker whose first New Zealand movie in 20 years, Mahana, adapted from the novel Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera, tells the story of two Maori sheep-shearing families on the East Coast in the 1960s. Mah… Audio

Writer and environmental activist who grew up between South Africa and Zimbabwe, and moved to New Zealand. She is reporting from the frontline of Africa's poaching crisis at savingthewild.com, and has… Audio, Gallery

Columbia University Historian, Richard W Bulliet has written the book, The Wheel, which traces the history of the invention that changed the world. He begins in 4-thousand BC when wheels were first… Audio, Gallery

that moment when one must apply their skills as a fluvial geomorphologist in determining a centuries-old border dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua - with Prof. Colin Thorne, Chair of Physical… Audio

Today on the show, David Downs will be looking at his favourite lesser-known NZ inventions. How a tobacco company kept the world fit; why Ernest Rutherford is the SECOND most famous person from the… Audio