History

This week on Spectrum – she came down with crash six months ago. But, before her much vaunted implosion, the Christchurch Central Police Station had already known plenty of action. Katy Gosset talks… Audio

Have beards had their day or are they here to stay? A story about beards and the modern man. New Zealand men have wholeheartedly embraced their beards, so much so that beard and moustache competitions… Audio

Are you thinking of doing a summer project turning an old caravan into something new? Murray Holdaway has a love of old caravans and he believes there is more to it than meets the eye. Audio

Teacher of post-colonialism literature at Victoria University, Dr. Dougal McNeill deconstructs public policies from here and around the globe, Harry Holland and the early years of Labour and socialism… Audio

Today's book is History's People: Personalities and the Past, written by Margaret MacMillan, published by Text and reviewed by Lisa Finucane. Audio

In November 2015, a gale smashed landing piers at Helles and Anzac and one officer noted: "All along the beach above the roar of the waves could be heard the crash of the great barges as the sea… Audio

The Elam School of Fine Arts is marking 125 years of producing artists who've gone on to great things here and overseas, as well as unleashing its graduates of 2015. Audio, Gallery

In 1942, 37 women died in a fire at Seacliff Mental Hospital just north of Dunedin. Until the Ballantynes fire in Christchurch a few years later, it was New Zealand's worst fire disaster. Playwright… Audio

Some secrets of surviving in a small town Audio

Kevin Williamson is a poet, author, publisher and activist, who performs his work with musician Craig Lithgow. Singer-songwriter Dan Willson records and performs as Withered Hand. All three… Audio

One hundred years ago this week, the New Zealanders still grimly hanging onto the slopes of Gallipoli, were dealt yet another blow. After enduring a summer of searing heat, with vast swarms of flies… Audio

For almost ten years, U.S Special Forces working in Afghanistan were working blind, unable to gather intelligence from the largest group of citizens in the country, women. When soldiers raided… Audio

Marsden Wharf Auckland, 10 July 1985, just before midnight, two explosions tore through the hull of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior. Today we remember a concert held to raise funds for a… Audio

The Great Barrier Reef, according to Sydney University historian Iain McCalman, is so vast the only people able to fully grasp its scale are astronauts. The reef's network of hundreds of islands and… Audio

The Kennedy family has long held the world's admiration and fascination. But all families have their dark secrets and for the Kennedys it was the daughter born with developmental disabilities… Audio

War Report 63 - 22 Nov 2015 Broadcast Time: 8:53pm Sunday 22 Nov 2015 Memories of six months on Gallipoli with Joe Gasparich giving a vivid description of the carnage at The Daisy Patch. MUSIC… Audio

Kate discusses three children's non-fiction books: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, Timeline by Peter Goes, and Shackleton's Journey by William Grill. Audio