Great Encounters

RNZ New Zealand

In-depth interviews selected from RNZ National's feature programmes during the week.

Episodes

Stephen Burt on poetry

Karyn Hay: 'You’ve got to take it to the limit'

Rediscovered WWI antiseptic to battle pandemic illnesses

Alan Bird

Hacking, MPS, police & the press

Professor Ian Reid - The fracture tsunami

Alison McCulloch: post-natal depression

What do special needs children need in the classroom?

Jeavons Baillie: conservation and the National Library

Beth Shapiro: mammoths, genetics and de-extinction

Sarah Laing: Katherine Mansfield and comics

Anthony Byrt: art, criticism, and poker

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore: the battle of the Somme

Matt Vickers - Lecretia's Law

Bronwyn King: tobacco free investment

Indigenous people in prison - can the vicious cycle be broken?

Elizabeth Hay: Canada and nostalgia

Patricia Routledge on Beatrix Potter

Jacinta Ruru: law from a Maori perspective

Stuart Firestein: ignorance, failure, and how we smell