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Pension Wars: How A Gold-Plated Promise Changed NZ Politics
It's the third rail of New Zealand politics: Touch it and you die. From Richard Seddon's groundbreaking old-age pension, to Rob Muldoon's Dancing Cossacks, to Jim Bolger's "no ifs, no buts, no maybes"… Video, Audio
New Zealand on strike, again
Our workforce has had enough and will down tools on October 23 for a "mega strike", involving more than 100,000 workers Audio
Book about the lives of some of the world's greatest hunters
Stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. That's how hunting author Peter Ryan describes his latest book Riding the Echo Down: Hunting Adventures from New Zealand and Around the World… Audio
Ion Man: Bill Buckley on magnets, mechanics, and motorsport
Bill Buckley is best known for his work with electromagnets, which are used in more than 90 percent of the world's silicon chips. Audio
Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings
The bodies were trucked from one of Syria's largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away in the remote desert, an investigation has found.
Historic Taranaki hotel on the market
A South Taranaki hotel dating back to the late 1800s is on the market. Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin reports. Audio
150-year-old train found buried on Whanganui beach
The Skunk locomotive has been sitting in the sand for about 75 years.
Professor Atholl Anderson; history & archaeology 'chose me'.
For decades Ngai Tahu archaeologist and historian, Professor Atholl Anderson, has explored the origins and historic migration of peoples around the Pacific, the first arrivals of Māori in Aotearoa and… Audio
Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower
Popular culture has mythologised The Spartans as militaristic warriors but how much of what we think we know is actually true? Audio
Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm: Pike River
The long-awaited Pike River movie premieres around the country next week. Audio
From the Archives: Mustering at Molesworth
It's an early start for the musterers at Molesworth Station. The bulls are out with the cows for the mating season and everyone needs to beat the heat. Country Life producer spent a day with the… Audio
Not for Broadcast - Part 5: The Word From On High
In the final part of this series Nick Bollinger explores more songs about God and sex, and hears from some current broadcasters about a few records they played but maybe shouldn't have. Audio
How MMP changed politics
New Zealand’s MMP voting system promised fairness and diversity — but has it delivered? In this episode of Context, Guyon Espiner and Corin Dann look back at how MMP came to be, from a slip-up by… Video, Audio
How one family turned Hawke's Bay scrubland into farming gold
Bill Mouat has turned his family's pioneering farming history into a beautifully detailed book called 'Gold Under the Manuka'. Audio
Shower Thoughts: How do we know what dinosaurs looked like?
James Crampton is a Professor of Paleontology and Stratigraphy at Victoria University and joins Nights to explain. Audio
Feature interview: Millennials are more than avocado toast
An entire generation is often summed up in two words: Avocado Toast. An Australian commentator criticized millennials for blowing house downpayment money on brunch, and the label has stuck. But… Audio
141-year-old rural hall for sale - quirks and all
Once a place of dancing, celebration, and socialising, Carterton's Belvedere Hall is on the market.
Celebrating Lighthouse Keeper Ray Walter
Ray Walter was a lighthouse keeper from 1957 through to the mid 80s. During that time, he worked at 8 different lighthouses, including two stints at the notorious, remote, and incredibly dangerous… Audio
Understanding NZ's greatest scientist Ernest Rutherford
Rutherford's life and his work has been diligently chronicled in a new book by Kiwi author Matthew Wright called Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics. Audio
Carlo Masala: What happens if Russia succeeds in Ukraine?
Political scientist Dr Carlo Masala on what could happen, if the conflict in Ukraine is settled on terms advantageous to Russia. How far is NATO really prepared to go to defend one of its member… Audio
