Spectrum
-
Spectrum for 19 May 2013
Excavator operators demonstrate skill and precision in using their 12-tonne diggers to pour tea from a teapot attached to their massive claw-buckets and even add a teaspoon of sugar but there's also the serious stuff. And after two days of gruelling competition, one operator emerges winner of the National Excavator Operator Competition.
-
Spectrum for 12 May 2013
She left home in the 1800's, and returned only fifteen years ago. After a multi-million dollar restoration, Mataatua Wharenui is back on Whakatane's foreshore. The 24-metre long meeting house was sent abroad in 1879 by the New Zealand government and displayed in Australia and London before being erected at the Otago Museum for seventy years. Spectrum's David Steemson traces her story.
-
Spectrum for 5 May 2013
The Port town of Lyttelton- just through the tunnel from Christchurch- embraces and celebrates its musicians and artists. Poet Ben Brown is one of these and we hear Ben in public performance and he also tells his story to Deborah Nation.
-
Spectrum for 28 April 2013
Keen landscapers and DIYers turn up with their trailers, buckets and shovels, eager to collect gravel or river stones from the Otaki river bed for their garden or home projects. Normally permission is needed to remove gravel and stones from the river, so it's an extremely popular event. Removing gravel also helps with river management and flood protection.
-
Spectrum for 21 April 2013
Longer than 3 rugby fields and equal to the height of a 23-storey building, Cunard's 151-thousand-tonne flagship Queen Mary 2 is the largest ship to ever visit New Zealand. She recently called into Auckland for a one day stopover as part of her first Royal Circumnavigation of New Zealand. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson takes in the QM2's arrival from aboard a Ports of Auckland tug before climbing aboard.
-
Spectrum for 14 April 2013
Cantabrians raise funds for their Cathedral by gathering at Lansdowne Park and Homestead to picnic and listen to Mozart arias at a Glyndebourne-inspired concert.
-
Spectrum for 7 April 2013
Spectrum's Jack Perkins traces the story of Pumpkin Cottage in Silverstream, Upper Hutt, which became an artists' retreat for early impressionists such as James Nairn and Mabel Hill, who travelled to the rural setting to learn and paint together.
-
Spectrum for 31 March 2013
It's a museum of dreams and memories. A bit tongue-in-cheek really, but its founder was inspired by a friend with Alzheimers. The tiny Jonesonian Institute €think Smithsonian Institution €is hidden away in Auckland's Waitakere Ranges. There, you'll find bottling jars, full of preserved memories, marbles (in case of loss), pliers (in memory of being pliable) and photo art depicting dementia and nightmares of genetic engineering!
-
Spectrum for 24 March 2013
As protestors gather and clash with local police at the annual Waihopai protest, organic farmer and teacher Adrian Leason recalls the saga of the 2008 break-in at the Waihopai surveillance base near Blenheim.
-
Spectrum for 17 March 2013
Tenants of Hanson Court in the Wellington suburb of Newtown have had their apartments upgraded by Wellington City Council. But alongside the Housing Upgrade project, the Council is also helping tenants with various schemes aimed at allowing them to develop their interests and potential and to lead richer lives.
-
Spectrum for 10 March for 2013
It's art. Tiffany Singh uses rice and lentils in her work, she's dusted her bees-wax effigies with spice, and hung thousands of tiny bells and bamboo wind chimes in parks and art galleries. And for this year's Auckland Arts festival she's got help from three thousand local school children to paint their hopes or dreams on rainbow coloured Tibetan-style prayer flags which'll fly over Aotea Square during March.
-
Spectrum for 3 March 2013
Residents of Christchurch's historic riverside community The Avon Loop, gather to walk their streets for the last time.
-
Spectrum for 24 February 2013
Blue lines on Owhiro Bay roads indicate tsunami safe zones. Their faces also painted with blue lines, children of Owhiro Bay primary school and kindergarten sing about coping with an earthquake and tsunami which could devastate communities dotted along Wellington's rugged south coast. Spectrum's Jack Perkins found that the children are just one part of a community effort to raise awareness about the threat posed by tsunamis.
-
Spectrum for 17 February 2013
Every parent wants to see their child grow up and achieve their own independence. For parents of children with a disability this can seem an impossible aspiration. But John and Jane Taylor have found a way for their 24-year-old son Lawrence, who was born with Down syndrome. A furniture-maker by trade, John refined the design of a Cape Cod style chair and then worked out a production system that would allow Lawrence to assemble a chair from scratch, with only minor assistance. Try21 chairs,...
-
Spectrum for 10 February 2013
Photographer, artist, publisher and environmentalist Craig Potton looks back on a life of adventure and achievement as he reaches 60 alongside a new young wife and a two year old daughter.
-
Spectrum for 3 February 2013
Like-minded folk who travel the north island in housetrucks, vans and buses cluster on a playing field at the back of Waitara central school, north of New Plymouth. Their stalls offer a variety of wares which helps them eke out a living. But as Spectrum's Jack Perkins discovers, it's love of the life-style which keeps the Gypsy Travellers on the road.
-
Spectrum for 27 January 2013
Pre-schoolers Taylor, Samuel, Honor and Brayden may not know how lucky they are€yet. One of their classrooms is their own Wild Woods, complete with trees to climb, a balance log, eels-in-a-stream and cow pats. These children go to Open Spaces Preschool near Whangarei, run by Cherry Daly who's an ardent advocate of a world-wide movement to bring children to nature.
-
Spectrum for 20 January 2013
In 1913, 23 year-old Florence Harsant rode on horseback through the gumfields and isolated settlements of New Zealand's far north. Florence was working on behalf of the Women's Temperance Movement, combatting the excessive use of alcohol amongst Maori but she also witnessed a smallpox epidemic: most of the 2000 cases reported were Maori as were the 55 who died. In 1974, Spectrum's Alwyn Owen talked with Florence Harsant. This repeat broadcast marks the centenary of the epidemic.
-
Spectrum for 13 January 2013
Marianne Elliott and Amanda Scothern have known each other for 14 years. They're both from New Zealand – but they met in Gaza doing aid work in their 20s. Back then, their idea of dealing with the disturbing events and stories they were encountering was to load up on cheap Israeli wine and dance the night away. But over the years, and with much more experience, both turned to yoga as a fundamental tool in self-care, especially in difficult and traumatic times. Marianne recently visited...
-
Spectrum for 6 January 2013
Bill Tilman was lost at sea in 1977 en route to an unclimbed peak on a remote Antarctic Island. It was a typical adventure for the sailor and mountaineer who'd already explored many of the world's mountainous regions. Spectrum's Nick Atkinson speaks to a small group of Tilman's fellow antipodean adventurers.
-
Spectrum for 30 December 2012
Ever fancied riding a 50cc scooter across the Southern Alps in the middle of winter? No? Funny that. And yet earlier this year, more than two hundred mad men and women did just that. Spectrum's Justin Gregory visits Safari headquarters the day before the big ride and follows the epic journey.
-
Spectrum for 23 December 2012
Just days before Christmas, a Christchurch homeless man shares his world with Spectrum. In the wasteland near the central city but outside the patrolled red-zone, vagrants and squatters have never had such choice or such surveillance.
-
Spectrum for 16 December 2012
Young Aucklander Eddie Vazey died in World War Two. His family has just heard his voice for the first time since then. Twenty four year old Eddie was lost when HMS Neptune was sunk in the Mediterranean on December 19th, 1941. Only weeks before, The New Zealand Broadcasting Service Mobile Unit had visited Neptune to record Christmas messages from the kiwis aboard. Spectrum records the moment in 2012 when Eddie Vazey's niece and her three children hear his voice 71 years after his death.
-
Spectrum for 9 December 2012
Dannevirke's main street boasts a Fantasy Cave, maintained by a tight core of 13 cave-dwelling locals with an impressive array of skills, supported by an army of volunteers. Beginning in 1989 as a Christmas-themed grotto, the Fantasy Cave has grown into a display of southern Hawke's Bay history and a fairytale wonderland which attracts visitors from around the world.
-
Spectrum for 2 December 2012
Members of the Association of Blind Citizens visit The Suter Art Gallery in Nelson and take a rare opportunity to touch the art and sculpture on show.
-
Spectrum for 25 November 2012
Wellington Kindergartens developed The YMen project with help from government. It addresses the chronic shortage of men working in childhood education and also the high rates of unemployment among young men. Spectrum's Jack Perkins looks in on Ymen at Katoa kindergarten in Wellington's Porirua basin.
-
Spectrum for 18 November 2012
Spectrum's Lisa Thompson climbs aboard the almost 80 year-old yacht Ranui to meet former fisherman turned lawyer Richard Allen. Richard has had the sea in his blood since he was a young boy. He boasts an impressive cv - olympic yachtsman, antinuclear activist, he also carries out humanitarian work using the Ranui as a mobile medical unit.
-
Spectrum for Wednesday 14 November
'Innocents Abroad'. Between 1962 and 1974 Volunteer Service Abroad ran a school-leaver programme sending seventeen to eighteen year-olds fresh out of school off into remote corners of South East Asia and the Pacific. Deborah Nation attended a reunion of these VSA workers in 2004.
-
Spectrum for 11 November 2012
The Nelson Ark APART Programme brings together young people and animals as a way to teach empathy, compassion and tolerance.
-
Spectrum for 4 November 2012
Spectrum's Jack Perkins records at a self defence course for 11 to 13 year-old girls at Wellington's Holy Cross school. In 2011 alone, 11,463 girls from around the country attended Self Defence Project courses. From as young as 7, they are taught strategies and skills which will keep them safe in the face of threat.
-
Spectrum for 28 October 2012
Take twenty young kiwi business women, add four 'token' males, plus two builder blokes, and send them to Sri Lanka. What do you get? Answer: Four new brick and tile houses. The New Zealanders were part of a contingent of 100 volunteers from around the world which, in just a week, helped build twenty four homes for Habitat for Humanity.
-
Spectrum for 21 October 2012
Spectrum's Deborah Nation joins Christchurch City Mission delivery truck driver Brian Smithers on a house-lot pick up, as the Aranui owners prepare their family home for demolition.
-
Spectrum for 14 October 2012
The original 2 roomed cottage, built in the 1840s, sits on whale vertebrae from Kaikoura's shore-based whaling station. The rest of Fyffe House reflects the hardships endured by the families who lived there and the growth of the South Island east coast community of Kaikoura. Spectrum's Jack Perkins explores Fyffe House, a New Zealand Historic Places Trust category 1 property curated by Ann McCaw.
-
Spectrum for 7 October 2012
Every so often Pearl, Basil, Monty and Cracker like to get together with thirty of their mates for a Saturday morning walk. Oh, and thirty humans come too. You see P, B, M and C are all beagles, a breed notoriously ruled by its nose which can lead an untrained owner seriously astray!
-
Spectrum for 30 September 2012
English doctor Angus Priddy 's love of sailing brought him across the globe to New Zealand and to Invercargill hospital. 'It's the bottom of the world' he admitted, but at least I have the Pacific as my playground'. Last year he spent 5 months as medical officer for a fleet of ocean-going wakas. Spectrum's Deborah Nation briefly caught up with Dr Priddy during the voyage of the waka fleet and also back in New Zealand.
-
Spectrum for 23 September 2012
Dr Arthur George Harvey practised in the southern Taranaki town of Waverly and its backblocks from 1895 until his death in 1927 at the age of 61. He served the district beyond the call of duty and met difficulties with zeal and ingenuity - his inventiveness was legend. Waverly locals, including Robert Bremer, who is related to Dr Harvey's wife Tilly, recreate the doctor's extraordinary story.
-
Spectrum for 16 September 2012
When Thomas and Mahrukh Stazyk purchased a disused dairy farm overlooking the Kaipara Harbour in 2003, they had a vision to establish a special retreat for people to relax and rejuvenate. However, after watching more and more nearby properties subdivided for development, the couple decided they would convert the farm back into native forest, eventually gifting it to the community. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson meets the couple who are planting for future generations.
-
Spectrum for 9 September 2012
Stonemason Mark Whyte puts sculpting commissions aside in order to respond to the Christchurch earthquakes and save classic street facades from the 1870s. Across the Red Zone and 3 generations of the Aires family- Bob, Rob and Suzie are at work on the Heritage Hotel which were the old government buildings.
-
Spectrum for 2 September 2012
An affectionate look back to the 47 year-old tradition of Broadcasts to Schools, and particularly its singing lessons, which all ended in the final school term of 1979.
-
Spectrum for 26 August 2012
It's only been a week but with guidance from graffiti artist Otis Frizzel, young Wauki Paniani has finished a massive mural of the face of Jesus. Wauki is part of a project for a group of fifteen and sixteen year olds who've been excluded from mainstream education. Each Rangatahi or teenager is paired with an artist for the week to create a piece of art.
-
Spectrum for 19 August 2012
German master craftsman Norbert Kleinschmidt has built a new thatched roof on the 'old slab hut', a south Canterbury landmark. Norbert talks to Spectrum's Deborah Nation about his life and work as New Zealand's only professional thatcher.
-
Spectrum for 12 August 2012
In 1912, Arthur Chorlton, Ernest Gilling, and Harold Richards drove their Model T Ford Roadster along the seemingly impassable tracks of the King Country and pointed the way to main road travel between Wellington and Auckland. Journalist Arthur Chorlton wrote an account of the journey which was dramatized for radio in 1964. To mark the centenary, Jack Perkins reconstructs this epic adventure.
-
Spectrum for 5 August 2012
For thirty five years Dr John Swinney's been hoarding bits of redundant apparatus from Whangarei Hospital and any medical stuff that didn't seem to be wanted by anyone else. His collection quickly became the Northland Medical Museum, but soon outgrew the small space allocated to him at the hospital. Now the museum has moved to a permanent and much bigger home.
-
Spectrum for 29 July 2012
Barrister and actor Mervyn Glue, fondly regarded as Christchurch's Rumpole, looks back over his long career.
-
Spectrum for 22 July 2012
Specialist palliative care nurse Joan Doyle sees her work as walking alongside her terminally ill patients, helping them to live their lives to the full. They live at home and can call on Lower Hutt's Te Omanga Hospice teams' services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Spectrum's Jack Perkins accompanies Joan Doyle on her rounds.
-
Spectrum for 15 July 2012
Every Sunday for over three decades, the pleasing sounds of hissing steam, trains tooting and tracks clickity clacking, have echoed around Centre Park in the Auckland suburb of Mangere. And if the sun is shining, so too will be the brass on the miniature trains that belong to the Manukau Live Steamers. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson climbs aboard.
-
Spectrum for 8 July 2012
In Spectrum this week we're going a bit further afield than usual. Bamyan province - right in the centre of Afghanistan - is one of its 34 provinces, and in ancient times this region was well travelled because of its location along the trading routes between the Roman Empire, China and Asia. As New Zealand's military presence in Bamyan comes to an end, many in the province are once again looking to tourism as a potential source of income. Marianne Elliott is a human rights lawyer who worked...
-
Spectrum for 1 July 2012
Since it began in 2008, Wellington's non-profit food rescue service Kaibosh has saved nearly 100,000 meals from ending up in the landfill and distributed them to charities. Spectrum's Jack Perkins joins a team of volunteers as they rescue about 90kgs of fruit and vege left over after a Sunday market and follows the food to the Wellington City Mission.
-
Spectrum for 24 June 2012
Her Majesty Queen Victoria was there. So was her right hand man, Mr Brown - solemn and kilted. It was Live Day at the Howick Historical Village, this one marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Howick Historical Society. The three hectare village comprises over thirty original colonial buildings including schools, a church, a working forge, general store and a street of fencible cottages, all inhabited by 60-volunteers in Victorian dress busying themselves with butter-making,...
-
Spectrum for 17 June 2012
From the 1940s to the 60s, Annette Mary Eleanor Jane 'Ma' Clifford was Christchurch's most prominent landlady and in the 1950s she was receiving rent from up to 550 tenants. In 2002, Deborah Nation collected the memories of students, artists, and a variety of other tenants who paid rent to the eccentric property owner. (First broadcast in 2002)
-
Spectrum for 10 June 2012
The drowned valleys at the top of the South Island - the Marlborough Sounds - offer an idyllic but isolated lifestyle. Folk living in the bays and inlets along this convoluted coastline require services which are only available by sea. Spectrum's Jack Perkins heads out from Picton on the boat which carries mail, provisions and even livestock for families in Queen Charlotte Sound.
-
Spectrum for 3 June 2012
She's been out of the water for twelve years, and looks a bit unloved. But the eighty year old Auckland Harbour ferry Toroa will sail again. A gang of determined volunteers has raised over a million dollars and is rebuilding her from the inside-out. Replacing the massive steel framework is just about done and now the hunt's on for 90-cubic metres of New Zealand Kauri to reclad her.
-
Spectrum for 27 May 2012
Former trade training hostel residents, along with Anglican social worker Bill Cox who ran it, remember the early days of the Maori Trade Training Hostel Te Kainga, in Hansens Lane Christchurch. The hostel opened in 1962. Produced by Deborah Nation. (The programme was first broadcast in 1992)
-
Spectrum for 20 May 2012
'Ceud Mille Failte' - One hundred thousand welcomes to the 148th Turakina Highland Games. Every year since 1864, the tiny settlement of Turakina south of Whanganui has resounded to the skirl of the pipes. The tartans swirl as competitors strut their stuff in the Sword Dance or Half Tulloch, while in the field events, brawny men in singlets toss sheaf and caber. Amelia Nurse and Phillip Collins were on hand for Spectrum.
-
Spectrum for 13 May 2012
The distinctive vomit-like smell of ripe fruit from a Ginkgo tree is enough to put most people off harvesting it. But each Autumn, members of the Asian community can be seen shaking the leaves of trees. For Bay of Plenty couple Graham and Mavis Dyer, who watched nuts being knocked to the ground, curiosity proved too much and they tried growing Ginkgos. Join Spectrum's Lisa Thompson as she meets the Dyers and explores why they might not be so nuts after all.
-
Spectrum for 29 April 2012 - Waipawa's Wimbledon
Sharapova and Djokavitch may be missing but the competition is still fierce on court. This is Waipawa's Wimbledon with well over 100 veteran tennis players, some in their 80s, battling for supremacy in the country's oldest tournament of its kind. A love of the sport itself along with the enjoyment of meeting and competing with old friends brings vets back year after year.
-
Spectrum for 22 April 2012
Archie Clapham trained as an engineer and for years ran the small power station that powered the Wellington tram system. He also collected clocks. By the time he was in his late 70's he had four hundred of them crammed into his house. After moving to Whangarei he sold his collection to the local Council and today Claphams National Clock Museum has over fourteen hundred time pieces.
-
Spectrum for 15 April 2012
With half his life work destroyed by earthquakes, Christchurch conservator Graham Stewart is on a mission to save what is left of Canterbury's remarkable stained glass history.
-
Spectrum for 8 April 2012
Pupils from Christchurch's Cashmere Primary School explore Wellington's Old St Paul's and find that uncovering the secrets and symbols of a wooden gothic cathedral is a fun way of learning.
-
Spectrum for 1 April 2012
Surplus drugs, redundant medical equipment, dental supplies, you name it, if it's in-date and of use, Medical Aid Abroad New Zealand will take it and ship it to wherever it's needed. Founded more than forty years ago, MAANZ is a volunteer organisation staffed by former doctors. They stack and pack in a warehouse in Auckland and send help all around the world. For Spectrum, Justin Gregory explores.
-
Spectrum for 25 March 2012
Every year, curlers from throughout the south gather for the Dunedin Masters Games. Spectrum meets veteran curlers as they compete on indoor ice rinks and enjoy the warmth and comfort of a bar and facilities which are a far cry from the frozen lakes of Central Otago where curling competitions, or Bonspiels, are normally held.
-
Spectrum for 18 March 2012
Forty years ago to the day, 18 March 1972, the first Spectrum documentary was broadcast. Jack Perkins helped Alwyn Owen launch a human interest series which was designed as a counterbalance to the current affairs content of National Radio. Owen and Perkins briefly recall Spectrum's early days and replay 'Two Wellington Childhoods', first broadcast in 1972.
-
Spectrum for 11 March
Summer 2012 was special for the outdoorsy Moore family of Titirangi. For the first time in years they went tramping together, complete with mother Colleen. After years of deteriorating health, 58 year old Colleen is now the grateful recipient of a new set of donated lungs. Four days walking Fiordland's Kepler track was a big test.
-
Spectrum for 4 March 2012
Deborah Nation visits a sound garden workshop in Okuti Valley on Banks Peninsula which inspires participants to free the voice within.
-
Spectrum for 26 February 2012 - Pukaha Mt Bruce
Pukaha Mount Bruce reserve is the last remnant of Wairarapa's once-famous 70 Mile Bush which cloaked the countryside from Masterton north to Norsewood. Spectrum's Jack Perkins looks at the work of Pukaha Mt Bruce rangers. On the way, he meets a wolf-whistling Kokako and checks out a healthy young Kiwi.
-
Spectrum for 19 February 2012
Dennis (Rocky) Hall lives for the beach. Nearly 70, he is one of the country's longest serving surf lifesavers, volunteering his time at Gisborne's Midway Surf Life Saving Club for over half a century. Such is his passion for guarding the beaches, Rocky is now training the third generation of surf lifesavers in the club. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson travelled to Gisborne to meet the man affectionately known as the Godfather of Midway.
-
Spectrum for 12 February 2012
At least five companies are busy working in and around Christchurch blasting rock on unstable slopes in the hope of reducing danger since the earthquakes. Spectrum's Deborah Nation joins backcountry construction company Solutions 2 Access, as the team blasts rock on the Port Hills above Lyttelton.
-
Spectrum for 5 February 2012
Writer, film maker and sculptor Frankie Wood is 92 years-old and has been an entertainer since childhood. She still performs with her life-sized puppets, mouth organ or accordion and is always ready to burst into song. But Jack Perkins discovers that Frankie's talent and energy are also reflected in a life crammed with incident and adventure. (The second of two programmes, part one was broadcast on 20 November 2011)
-
Spectrum for 29 January 2012
Rotoroa Island in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf is no longer an 'island apart'. For a hundred years it was off-limits to the public, as the Salvation Army's alcohol and drug treatment centre. Now, after a $30 million dollar take-over and makeover, the island's wide open to visitors. All the money's come from the pockets of a very shy philanthropic couple.
-
Spectrum for Sunday 22 January 2012
Eelco Boswijk and the heyday of Chez Eelco Cafe in Nelson
-
Spectrum for 15 January 2012
Amelia Nurse visits Mussel Inn in Golden Bay to hear some wicked banjo players and find out how the inn has been so successful for so long.
-
Bonus audio: the brewery
Go on an audio tour of the Mussel Inn brewery.
-
Spectrum for 8 January 2012
On Spectrum this week, Justin Gregory goes behind bars to meet a former bookstore owner who has spent years of her life helping prisoners improve their reading skills and change their lives.
-
Spectrum for 1 January 2012
On Spectrum this week, Amelia Nurse visits Judy and Steve Richards who have run the Jester House Cafe in the hamlet of Tasman for the past 20 years.
-
Spectrum for 25 December 2011
Justin Gregory goes behind bars to meet a former bookstore owner who has spent years of her life helping prisoners improve their reading skills and change their lives.
-
Spectrum for 18 December 2011
Spectrum discovers what happened to the blind man who busked in front of the Cathedral until the day of the February earthquake.
-
Spectrum for 25 December 2011
Spectrum offers a few tasty treats for Christmas lunch. Fancy some ginger gems, hot cheese scones, or colonial goose, cooked on a coal range stove? Justin Gregory is on hand when the old Shacklock Coal Range at Cornwall Park's historic Huia Lodge is fired up. Cooking the way your grandmother, her mother and her mother before her did it.
-
Spectrum for 11 December 2011
The commanding landmark of Rangitoto, the largest and youngest of the islands in Auckland's volcanic field, has long attracted day-trippers keen to make the short, sharp hike to its summit. But for a small handful of families, time on the island stands almost still. These are the descendants of a once thriving bach community during the 1920s and 30s. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson meets those ensuring the island's slice of Kiwiana lives on.
-
Spectrum for 4 December 2011
Meg Daly says the sudden death of Green Party co-leader Rod Donald in 2005 was a wakeup call for her. So after years working as an occupational therapist, Irish born Meg now spends her days baking Irish soda bread, Scottish tattie scones and Welsh Bara Brith (tea bread). She sells them at farmers' markets around the Waikato.
-
Spectrum for 27 November 2011
Between demolition and rebuild stands a time of opportunity in the earthquake ravaged city of Christchurch. Greening the Rubble and Gap Filler are temporary pockets of enterprise which began as early responses and have built in momentum to define the new city.
-
Spectrum for 20 November 2011
Writer, film maker and sculptor Frankie Wood is 92 years-old and has been an entertainer since childhood. She still performs with her life-sized puppets, mouth organ or accordion and is always ready to burst into song. But Jack Perkins discovers that Frankie's talent and energy are also reflected in a life crammed with incident and adventure.
-
Spectrum for 13 November 2011
A group of Wellington College students and a teacher tell Spectrum's Jack Perkins about their visit to Tanzania's hinterland to see how the money raised by the college for a World Vision project is bettering the lives of people in this developing east African country.
-
Spectrum for 6 November 2011
Anthony Lealand has drawn on the experience of guys by the bonfire with a handful of sparklers, to fully orchestrated whizz-bang events, to create his fireworks company which is now a world leader in its field.
-
Spectrum for 30 October 2011
It used to be little more than a toilet stop on the way to other destinations but now Shannon's chic shops are attracting women from the nearby and much larger towns of Palmerston North, Levin and even Napier.
-
Spectrum for 23 October 2011
You may never have heard of the Albertlanders. But their legacy is enshrined in the small North Auckland town of Wellsford. Next Easter it'll be 150 years since the first cohort of members of nonconformist British churches arrived to settle on the Kaipara Harbour at Port Albert.
-
Spectrum for 16 October 2011
On the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the first veterinary school in Lyon, France, four South Island vets recall their colourful careers from breeding goldfish, to saving elephants.
-
Spectrum for 9 October 2011
With the aim of getting families involved, Wellington's Thorndon Farmers' Market runs its first ever Kids' Market. As well as fun for the whole family, the young stall-holders learn the ins and outs of planning and running their stalls. With the aim of getting families involved, Wellington's Thorndon Farmers' Market runs its first ever Kids' Market. As well as fun for the whole family, the young stall-holders learn the ins and outs of planning and running their stalls.
-
Spectrum for October 2 2011
You may never have heard of Brian Lawton, but you have probably seen the creepy crawlies he breeds. His giant spiders, cockroaches, worms and wetas have featured graphically in such films as Lord of the Rings and TV hits Hercules and Zena.
-
Spectrum for 25 September 2011
International Red Cross Manager Bob McKerrow talks with Deborah Nation about his long career spent helping others. Bob is no stranger to disaster but it's a new experience to see the sufferings of his earthquake-hit home-town of Christchurch.
-
Spectrum for 18 September 2011
In the 1940s, a casual after-school job drew Ian Young into watchmaking. He's now 80 years old and is still repairing everything from grandfather clocks to the tiniest timepieces. Ian introduces Spectrum's Jack Perkins to things horological and recalls his life tinkering with time.
-
Spectrum for 11 September 2011
The Claystore is a community workshop tucked away on a light industrial site in Devonport that used to be part of the Auckland Gas and Brickworks. The workshop is manned by a small group of volunteers who run a fully equipped wood and metal workshop. For a small koha, locals can make use of the donated machinery and tap into the knowledge and expertise of the volunteers. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson calls on The Claystore.
-
Spectrum for 4 September 2011
A year after the first earthquake on 4 September 2010, aftershocks continue to be felt in Canterbury, and they're not always seismic ones. When buildings collapse or are cordoned off, or even just closed for repairs - what happens to the lives and livelihoods of those who used to fill them with noise and energy? Kris Vavasour returns to Lyttelton to catch up with performers and friends, to hear about life in an altered landscape.
-
Spectrum for 28 August 2011
United States marines invaded Wellington's Kapiti coast in June 1942. Several camps housed about 20,000 marines who were undergoing training for assaults against the Japanese in the Pacific. Spectrum's Jack Perkins talks with Paekakariki residents who recall how their lives and their tiny settlement were transformed by the 'Friendly Invasion'.
-
Spectrum for 21 August 2011
Early evening, Tawharanui Regional Park. This mainland sanctuary is now home to threatened native fauna, plus on this evening, a dozen chatty kids from nearby Matakana Primary School. The group's being taken on what's been dubbed an 'Owl Prowl', and hopes are high they'll spot a kiwi.
-
Spectrum for 14 August 2011
At the Marine Education Centre in Honolulu, Deborah Nation joins a fleet of Pacific voyaging canoes and meets the Maori navigators and crew who began their journey in Aotearoa.
-
Spectrum for 7 August 2011
The Wellington Vintage Machinery Club collects everything from old typewriters to tractors, their motto is 'don't throw it away, restore it and display'. And if you want to find out how your grandmother did the washing using a hand-powered washing machine, you've come to the right place.
-
Spectrum for 31 July 2011
Not everyone can explore the universe from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Some people have to make do with their backyard deck. While amateur astronomer Jennie McCormick is one such person, she has a distinct advantage over the average stargazers- a home observatory. She has received international recognition for co-discovering planets and solar systems from her garden in East Auckland. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson joins Jennie for her exploration of the final frontier.
-
Spectrum for 24 July 2011
Antarctic Society members meet at the Naval Point Club in Lyttelton for a Midwinter celebration dinner exactly a century after Scott and the Terra Nova party sat down to seal, soup, roast beef and champagne, in their new hut at Cape Evans.
-
Spectrum for 17 July 2011
New Zealand was the first country in the world to anticipate the power of the new medium of radio and passed a Wireless Telegraphy Act in 1903. In July 1911, the country's first radio station, ZLW, began communicating with shipping from Wellington's Central Post Office tower and then relocated to Tinakori hill overlooking the city. Jack Perkins marks the centenary of Radio in New Zealand and former ZLW morse code operators recall their work.
-
Spectrum for 10 July 2011
'I used to be shy at reading. Now I'm confident and learning amazing new words.' Just one happy student who's taken part in One Tree Hill College's reading enrichment programme. Each week a posse of retired professionals descend on the college to work one-on-one with the select few students, to improve reading comprehension skills.
-
Spectrum for 3 July 2011
The Volcano Caf was damaged beyond repair by a 6.3 Earthquake, in February this year. Owners Lois Ogilvie and Peter Llewellyn Evans remember their 23 years in business along with personality waiter Janice Gray and Gerard Smyth.
-
Spectrum for 26 June 2011
The old farmhouse stove is the only potbelly you'll see at the Gentle World vegan community in Northland. The 15 or so who live in the Victoria valley near Kaitaia are slim, fit and healthy and proud of their way of living which assiduously avoids anything which harms or exploits animals. Spectrum's Jack Perkins spends several days at Gentle World.
-
Spectrum for 19 June 2011
Aileen, Leena and Diane meet each week to sort dozens of woollen garments, destined for needy new born babies at the 'Kidz First' Children's Hospital in South Auckland. They've been knitting all their long lives. Just down the road at Auckland women's prison, inmates Tracey and Michelle are newly arrived knitting fans. But all of them are part of the 300-strong 'Knitter Natter' group who create beanies, cardigans, booties and blankets for the hospital. And for the first time ever, the...
-
Spectrum for 12 June 2011
Deborah Nation visits the site of a once forgotten Chinese camp near Lawrence in Central Otago. Established during the gold rush of the 1860s, the camp is now being given the respect its due thanks to the passion of Dunedin amateur historian Dr. Jim Ng.
-
Spectrum for 5 June 2011
Helen Pratt has built her own town - in miniature. She's created replicas of historic buildings from all corners of the country. 'Helenstown' is on display in the Murrayfield Clydesdale complex near her home town of Shannon. Spectrum's Jack Perkins discovers that Helen has an eye for detail and a mischievous sense of humour.
-
Spectrum for 29 May 2011
Jonathan Moon was a boy when his dad told him that there is no such word as 'can't'. Jonathan went on to found an Auckland technology firm that's now producing the world's only 'motion stamps'. The ground breaking work has just made it to the front page of the London Times after Britain's Royal Mail issued a first day cover using the technology. Spectrum and David Steemson go microlenticular.
-
Spectrum for Sunday 22 May 2011
Otago celebrates 150 years since Gabriel Reid discovered the first payable gold which resulted in the great New Zealand gold rush. Spectrum's Deborah Nation joins descendants of the miners and enthusiasts from far and wide as they descend on Gabriel's Gully, the source of the original find near the Central Otago township of Lawrence.
-
Spectrum for 15 May 2011
Wind strength and constancy make The Tararua Wind Farm, on the ranges behind Palmerston North, one of the world's most efficient electricity producing sites. One turbine, with 90 metre diameter blades, made by the Danish firm Vestas, generates enough electricity in two and a half hours to keep a home supplied for a year. Spectrum's Jack Perkins explores the site and climbs inside one of the 60 metre high towers.
-
Spectrum for 8 May 2011
Lisa Thompson spends a day at the races, soapbox style with 13 year-old Henry Dyer. Henry is the 2010 national soapbox derby champion and has spent the last four years careering down hills in West Auckland, cheered on by his father and coach Shawn Dyer.
-
Spectrum for Sunday 1 May 2011
Lyttelton's luthier Peter Steven makes guitars from tree trunk to completion and counts his lucky stars his Lyttelton workshop survived the big quake of February 22nd.
-
Spectrum for 24 April 2011
The Capital's inner-city bypass opened in 2006 but many who live in Te Aro do not think that their bypass surgery was necessary or desirable. Spectrum's Jack Perkins looks at upper Cuba St through the eyes of residents past and present and explores its history.
-
Spectrum for 17 April 2011
Barry Steiner was twelve years old when he found a couple of interesting beer cans on his way home from school. Twenty five years later he's collected 12-thousand! They're all on display at his New Zealand Beer Can Museum on his father's dairy farm at Galatea in the Bay of Plenty.
-
Spectrum for 10 April 2011
Deborah Nation meets southern woman Fleur Sullivan a restaurateur and provider of food and wine from the region.Fleur of 'Fleur's Place' at Moeraki by the sea, is now commuting daily to Oamaru to oversee her latest venture in the Whitestone heritage building 'The Loan and Merc'.
-
Spectrum for 3 April 2011
British cars by the hundred gather at Trentham Memorial Park, north of Wellington. Proud owners show off their sleek Daimlers and elegant Rolls-Royces. A few yards away an exuberant mob of Morris Minors cock a snook at their classy counterparts. Spectrum's Jack Perkins explores the attraction of British-made motors.
-
Spectrum for 27 March 2011
Graeme Cairns has been poking fun at the Establishment for most of his life. Since his student days he's led the satirical Clan McGillicuddy, which itself spawned the not-so-serious McGillicuddy Serious Party with the election plank 'The Great Leap Backwards'. David Steemson investigates.
-
Spectrum for 20 March 2011
A Christchurch Anglican vicar resigned from her parish to care full time for her mother. Nesta Clinton is in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease. Mandy Neil has taken over from her sister Melanie who previously moved into her mother's house to care for her.
-
Spectrum for 13 March 2011
A hundred years ago it was known as 'the Red Rattler', but Wellington's city- to-Kelburn cable car now rides smooth as silk. Jack Perkins climbs aboard the cable car to look at its technology and history.
-
Spectrum for 6 March 2011
Every year Eddie travels the length and breadth of New Zealand's rail network checking for rail fatigue, cracks and fissures. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson rides the rails around the Auckland region with Eddie Dargaville and his team.
-
Spectrum for 6 March 2011
Deborah Nation meets southern woman Fleur Sullivan, a restaurateur and provider of food and wine of the region. Fleur Sullivan of 'Fleur's Place' at Moeraki by the sea, is now commuting daily to Oamaru to oversee her latest venture in the Whitestone heritage building 'The Loan and Merc'
-
Spectrum for 20 February 2011
The Golden Bay Peace Group had its genesis in 1978 when many commune-dwellers discovered the growing movement towards local nuclear free zones. The Peace Group recently opened a display in the Golden Bay museum which tells their story. Produced by Jack Perkins.
-
Spectrum for 13 February 2011
The DC3 aircraft was a leader in air transport in the 1930s and 40's. One such was ZK-AZL which went on to help revolutionise aerial topdressing in New Zealand after the war. The DC3 Trust has just been formed to help conserve the 'big slow bird' which has been on display at the Agricultural Heritage Museum in the Waikato for over 35 years.
-
Spectrum for 6 February 2011
Fiordlander and Milford track guide Hunter Shaw tells his story of a life spent in and around Manapouri and Lake Te Anau.
-
Spectrum for 30 January 2011
Gillian Jackson was 17 when she climbed her first peak. That was in 1948 and it set the pattern for a lifetime love affair with the mountains. She's still climbing and tramping at the age of 80.
-
Spectrum for 23 January 2011
In a special, two-part series for Spectrum, Justin Gregory visits the Maui A gas drilling platform to meet the men who live and work there. In programme one he had to survive a week's worth of safety training in a freezing Taranaki swimming pool. This week, in part two, Justin visits the rig itself.
-
Spectrum for 23 January 2011
In a special, two-part series for Spectrum, Justin Gregory visits the Maui A gas drilling platform to meet the men who live and work there. In part one he had to survive a week's worth of safety training in a freezing Taranaki swimming pool. In part two, Justin visits the rig itself.
-
Spectrum for 16 January 2011
In a special, two-part series for Spectrum, Justin Gregory visits the Maui A gas drilling platform to meet the men who live and work there, but first he has to survive a week's worth of safety training in a freezing Taranaki swimming pool. Part 1 of 2.
-
Spectrum for 16 January 2011
In a special, two-part series for Spectrum, Justin Gregory visits the Maui A gas drilling platform to meet the men who live and work there, but first, he has to survive a week's worth of safety training in a freezing Taranaki swimming pool (Part 1 of 2).
-
Spectrum for 9 January 2011
All good things come to an end. After a decade of buying New Zealand artworks, the Wai Art group is calling it a day. And they're privatizing their collection by selling it - to themselves.
-
Spectrum for 2 January 2011
The secrets of old Oamaru are about to be spilled. It's not exactly a cast of thousands, but thanks to a couple of hard-working actors the characters and tales of 19th Century Oamaru are brought back to life.
-
Spectrum for 26 December 2010
Only forty years after it was founded, the central north island township of Aotuhia was finished. There's not much left nowadays, and the road is even worse, but you can get there by four wheel drive, down a road that starts in nearby Whangamomona. Spectrum's Justin Gregory cadges a ride with a local celebrity.
-
Spectrum for 19 December 2010
Ursula Bisley fell in love with Model T Fords after seeing a field full of them during a car rally in Motueka. Ursula now owns one but hasn't decided whether to call her Gertrude or Gladys.
-
Spectrum for 12 December 2010
Fiordland kindergarten has launched a new programme which takes pupils out into the wide open spaces. Their midweek nature discovery day draws inspiration from the European Forest kindergarten movement.
-
Spectrum for 5 December 2010
Volunteers care for Wellington's Bolton St cemetery which dates from 1840. Its closure 50 years later should have ensured that this hill near parliament would remain undisturbed. But erosion and a motorway's intrusion have given it an unquiet history.
-
Spectrum for Sunday 28 November 2010
The Over the Moon Dairy in the south Waikato town of Putaruru is the brainchild of Sue Arthur, who had no idea her small retirement plan making artisan cheese with local produce, would wind up attracting national and international recognition.
-
Spectrum for 21 November 2010
Spectrum meets locals who worked together to save and restore the miners cottages which line the heritage precinct of Arrowtown.
-
Spectrum for 14 November 2010
Nine months of work by dozens of volunteers has restored the near-derelict Plimmerton railway station, north of Wellington, to its former glory. The grand opening involved a steam train and guests dressed in 1940s styles.
-
Spectrum for 7 November 2010
The small country community of Otaua is on the move. It's been chopped off the bottom of the new Auckland Super city and sent off to the Waikato. Locals don't seem particularly bothered either way. David Steemson spends an afternoon with local people at an Otaua herb farm, who seem quite happy with their lives.
-
Spectrum for 31 October 2010
Take one excitable Welshman with a dash of pure vision, plus a few hours of drilling, screwing, grinding and cutting, and you've got -what, exactly? A Retrobot, that's what. Spectrum goes back to the future with 'The Robot Guy'.
-
Spectrum for 24 October 2010
Nigel Ogle, artist, model maker and Tawhiti musem curator, has created a life-sized wonderland of early Taranaki history. Weta Workshop, of Lord of the Rings fame, have also helped.
-
Spectrum for 17 October 2010
Zimbabwean Joan Hamilton didn't feel very welcome when she settled here almost forty years ago, so she embarked on a cunning plan to build friendships between new settlers and New Zealanders.....with a needle and embroidery thread.
-
Spectrum for 10 October 2010
Laura has Down's syndrome and she loves to dance. Her parents, German immigrants Nina and Christian, encourage her independence through dancing. Together they tell the story of life with Laura, and why they chose to live in New Zealand.
-
Spectrum for 3 October 2010
Former workers recall a tight-knit community and a work-force dominated by women proud of their skills. The Petone Woollen mills closed in 1968 and during its 80 year history it was a showpiece of industrial New Zealand.
-
Spectrum for 26 September 2010
Lisa Thompson heads along to the Auckland Zinefest (pronounced zeen), a celebration of self-publishing. Often described as a labour of love, zines are crafted by individuals and groups keen to produce and share ideas in true DIY fashion.
-
Spectrum for 19 September 2010
Spectrum visits a converted villa in Christchurch which is now the Canterbury Charity Hospital - a state of the art day surgery facility which helps people who fall through the cracks of the public health system.
-
Spectrum for 12 September 2010
A reunion rekindles memories of Wellington's Monde Marie coffee bar which opened in 1958 and became a haven for lovers of folk music and counterculture. Also featured are recordings of the larger-than-life owner of the cafe, Mary Seddon.
-
Spectrum for 5 September 2010
Bill McNabney can't resist other people's junk piles. For the last twenty five years he's been collecting and restoring old toys so he's always on the look out for a new treasure or a useful spare part. 'Why do I do it? It's a bloody obsession'.
-
Spectrum for 29 August
On a misty day at Hinewai Reserve on Banks Peninsula, Manager Hugh Wilson looks back on his life as a botanist and free spirit.
-
Spectrum for 22 August
'Enchantment pervades this matchless garden'- that's what one visitor said about Efil Doog (Good Life backwards) Gardens. Spectrum surrenders itself to 11 acres of whimsy, water and wonder north of Upper Hutt in the Akatarawa Valley.
-
Spectrum for 15 August
Ant Kite bought his first 1940s Ford Anglia, with help from his dad, when he was just thirteen. Younger brother Chris got an old Ford Prefect when he turned thirteen too. Both brothers are long time members of the Ford 8 and 10 Club.
-
Spectrum for 8 August
Deborah Nation heads off to the 104th annual Bird Club Show in Christchurch. From zebra finches to budgerigars, there's more to birds then meets the eyeand even Lovebirds are far from loving, when it comes to sharing a cage.
-
Spectrum for 1 August 2010
As part of the celebrations for its first ten years, Wellington's Museum of City and Sea invited the public to bring along their curios and artifacts for free expert appraisal.
-
Spectrum for 25 July 2010
Artist Lauren Lysaght makes hearses, kit set tombstones, even bombs in perspex. Each of her pieces is a tongue-in-cheek provocative poke at life's injustices.
-
Spectrum for 18 July 2010
Deborah Nation joins canine massage therapist Kathleen Crisley as she tends to the needs of a couple of her favourite clients.
-
Spectrum for 11 July 2010
Kwanzaa the African Shop in downtown Wellington is overflowing with figurines, batik and all kinds of decorative goods from 15 African countries. But even more interesting are the Africans who gather there.
-
Spectrum for 4 July 2010
Gary Diprose teaches farming skills to youth offenders. The programme has just reached a 50 percent success rate for helping students to obtain NCEA Level 1, significantly higher than national averages.
-
Spectrum for 27 June 2010
Deb Nation discovers darkened club rooms up a Lyttelton side street, which light up with extraordinary theatre thanks to a talented troupe of players known as The Loons Circus Theatre Company.
-
Spectrum for 20 June 2010
Spectrum's Jack Perkins finds the unexpected when his exploration of Wellington's fire-fighting history, in a museum behind the central fire station, is interrupted by a call-out.
-
Spectrum for 13 June 2010
Almost forty years ago Judy Gilbert bought a little piece of what she thought was paradise on Great Barrier Island. But Judy discovered that she was sharing her land with thousands of rats. So she set about killing them off.
-
Spectrum for 6 June 2010
Deborah Nation chases the tantalising aromas of Moroccan Cuisine and discovers the story behind a new concept in Christchurch called 'Kool Kai.'
-
Spectrum for 30 May 2010
Otaki hospital opened in 1899 and now it's a women's health centre. For much of last century it was a maternity hospital. At an open day, former nurses, midwives, and mothers, celebrate the hospital's history and the part they played in it.
-
Spectrum for 23 May
Little Portia of Panmure and young Bradley of Westmere have new playmateschooks. Their parents have just installed a hen house and chickens in their suburban gardens."Chickens@ home"is the brain child of Susie Thomas and so far everyone seems very happy.
-
Spectrum for 16 May 2010
Deborah Nation joins legendary singer John Hore Grenell at his family farm at Whitecliffs in the Canterbury Foothills.
-
Spectrum for 9 May 2010
A Catholic youth group and a variety of interested adults visit a Hindu Temple and a Mosque to find out more about faiths other than Christianity.
-
Spectrum for 2 May 2010
Lisa Thompson visits a small family-run vineyard on Waiheke island for the Syrah grape harvest.
-
Spectrum for April 25 2010
Jailhouse hostel owner Grant Parrett gives a tour of Addington Prison where backpackers have replaced prisoners.
-
Spectrum for 18 April 2010
Both Trevor Morley and his partner Kim Skinner have the collecting bug. Trevor proudly displays his 18th century police truncheons while Kim sets out an assortment of her kitchen curios along the counter of her antiques and collectibles shop. Trevor also demonstrates his antique music machines at service clubs.
-
Spectrum for 11 April 2010
It’s his first day back on duty at Burnham Military Camp for Company Sergeant Major Paul Mumm since returning from Afghanistan. After 5 months at the kiwi base, in the Hindu Kush mountain region, Paul, with wife Jen at his side, is feeling the yoke of responsibility lifted, knowing he has successfully returned a hundred and forty military men and women home to their families safe and sound.
-
Spectrum for 4 April 2010
Spectrum joins the Defense Force's person of the year Carol Voyce as she reconnects with a commanding officer on his first day back at Burnham Military Camp after a six-month stint in Afghanistan.
-
Spectrum for 24 March 2010
'The best suburb in Wellington.' That's how a recent reunion of quarantine officers described Wellington harbour's Matiu-Somes island when it was an animal quarantine station. Animal quarantine began on the island in 1889 and the station closed in 1995.
-
Spectrum for 21 March
Lisa Thompson spends a morning with Dr Helen Schofield at the Franklin Zoo and Wildlife Sanctuary and meets the characters that populate her life on a daily basis.
-
Spectrum for 14 March 2010
Spectrum tours old haunts in and around Christchurchs historic Arts Centre with Rosie Belton, who ran the Christchurch Drama Centre for over 20 years.
-
Spectrum for 7 March 2010
Most of Vince Keats large home is a workshop where he builds machines and restores motorbikes. His wife Lesley is a potter and crafts leaded coloured glass.
-
Spectrum for 28 February 2010
Allan Parker has spent thirty years admiring the view across Shakespear - yes, it really is spelt this way - Regional Park on Auckland's Whangaparaoa Peninsula. But these days he's leading the campaign to turn the park into a new open wildlife sanctuary.
-
Spectrum for 21 February 2010
Producer Sage Forest has discovered that two hundred apple varieties are being preserved from wood collected from Southland's fast-disappearing pioneer orchards.
-
Spectrum for Sunday 14 February
Noel Petherick does more than deliver mail to the folk who live along the Whanganui river road, hes also tourist bus and occasional taxi for the isolated region.
-
Spectrum for 7 February 2010
In 1939 Ray Rook left school and went to work as an apprentice at the local garage in Okato, Taranaki. Hes still there and still working.
-
Spectrum for 31 January 2010
It's hard to imagine homelessness in Invercargill, but they're there. So are the Salvation Army, taking food and hot drinks to them and many others on a Friday night in the old Bedford Ambo.
-
Spectrum for 24 January 2010
Briar Whitehead spends three days in the Whanganui Gorge helping keep the canoe upright in a swollen and fast-flowing river.
-
Spectrum for 17 January 2010
Children's theatre at the Malthouse, Christchurch's historic haven for young drama lovers.
-
Spectrum for 10 January 2010
Briar Whitehead explores the tiny fishing village of Ngawi on the edge of Cook strait.
-
Spectrum for 3 January 2010
Morris dancers from all over the place converge on the Taranaki town of Eltham.
-
Spectrum for 27 December 2009
A voyage off the New Zealand coast aboard the nineteenth century rigged tall ship Soren Larsen.
-
Spectrum for 20 December 2009
Jack Perkins discovers that archery has come a long way since the days of Robin Hood and Agincourt.
-
Spectrum for 13 December 2009
Rachel Wotton, once a drill sergeant and white trailer trash from Australia, now offers alternative healing free of charge.
-
Spectrum for 6 December 2009
An investigation of a 'haunted house' in Wellington conducted by a group who call themselves 'Strange Occurrences'.
-
Spectrum for 29 November 2009
Craig Shepherds rolling acres west of Wellington provide both haven and hospital for ducks and a range of other birds in need.
-
Spectrum for 22 November 2009
Former dairy farmer Wendy Fulton wants to build her own dream home. So shes chucked in the cows and gone back to carpentry school.
-
Spectrum for 15 November 2009
Kris Vavasour talks to musicians making their mark from the port town of Lyttelton.
-
Spectrum for 8 November 2009
Trash Palace offers an Aladdins cave of recyclable treasures.
-
Spectrum for 1 November 2009
Dr Joanne Drayton is Associate Professor of Visual Arts, but at night she carves bones fresh from the butcher.
-
Spectrum for 25 October 2009
Sonia Yee is in Dunedin to hear candid stories about the sex industry.
-
Spectrum for 18 October 2009
A New Zealand Defence Force reconstruction team trains for deployment in Afghanistan.
-
Spectrum for 11 October 2009
Aucklander Ben Smith is a tour guide in Berlin, but he feels at home in both cities.
-
Spectrum for 4 October 2009
Invercargill prison's open day offers a glimpse of life on the inside.
-
Spectrum for 27 September 2009
Volunteer fire brigades demonstrate their skills rescuing people from crashed vehicles.
-
Spectrum for 20 September 2009
The joys of very tiny vegetables called Microgreens that pack a punch of flavour.
-
Spectrum for 13 September 2009
A house on wheels is becoming increasingly attractive to a growing number of New Zealanders.
-
Sunday, 6 September 2009
Older men are tempted out of the loneliness of their inner-city bed-sits into the stimulating and convivial environment offered by Menz Shed.
-
Spectrum for 30 August 2009
Cellist Sophie is a synesthete. It's a condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another.
-
Spectrum for 23 August 2009
Adventurer Nick Atkinson retraces the steps of a famous alpine rescue that occurred in 1948.
Recommended Shows
PROGRAM INFORMATION
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Documentary
- RNZ New Zealand
- English
- P O Box 123, Wellington
-
Visit the station website
Email the show
Update show info
