History
Context Season 2 Trailer
Guyon Espiner & Corin Dann are back for a new season of their popular podcast Context. They use their decades of journalistic experience to explore the history behind what's happening today, diving… Audio
Music feature: Lou'ana on ABBA!
If any pop group in history had the knack for making a hit, it was ABBA. In less than 10 years, they had 25 top 40 hits in the UK, and 9 number-ones. This year marks the 50th anniversary of their… Audio
Remembering a key moment in history 181 years ago
The ceremony on a Bay of Islands hilltop at dawn tomorrow aims to preserve the memory of a war that changed New Zealand history.
The real life story behind Winnie-the-Pooh
Broadcaster and former politician Gyles Brandreth explores that complicated story in his new book Somewhere, A Boy and a Bear: A Biography of A. A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh - he joins Emile Donovan… Audio
Small Histories with Emma Kay
Tonight she's taking a look at when our love of motor cars first appeared. Audio
David Lange: History on Tape
Writer and journalist Greg Bruce is one of the people lucky enough to have access to the tapes of Prime Minister David Lange - he joins Emile Donovan to tell us what it's like listening to this slice… Audio
Jesse Goes Clubbing: Pre Vintage Car Clubs
Every Monday Jesse hits the clubs. If you've got a club we need to know about, be that a Jigsaw puzzle club, pug club, or stamp society get in touch. Jesse@rnz.co.nz on the email or text 2101. Today… Audio
Why archaeology is far more than just ancient history
Julian Richards joins Kathryn in our Wellington ahead of a talk at Te Papa. Audio
Black Sheep S9 Don Buck
The founding father of West Auckland - Don Buck was notorious in the early 1900s for his hard drinking, hard living gum digging camp in the foothills of the Waitakere ranges. Black Sheep investigates… Audio
'Bicycle face' and technological anxiety
Dr Kate MacKrill is a health psychologist and the University of Auckland. Audio
Small Histories with Emma Kay
Tonight she is sharing the origins of a local legend the Fiordland moose Audio
Douglas Boyd: Say your stories
Sit down and listen to your nanna! Interviews are a precious form of oral history: a combination of remembering and forgetting, story and silence. So says Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral… Audio
Snow Widows
In 1910 two teams raced to be the first to the South Pole. One was led by the Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen and the other by British naval officer, Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Amundsen would… Audio
Black Sheep S9 Dr Theodore Gray
“Oh Mummy save me from Dr Gray, because teacher says he’s coming today, and if I’m stupid he’ll take me away”. William Ray looks at the life and legacy of Dr Theodore Gray, a staunch eugenicists who… Audio
New mural pays tribute to Fat Freddy's Drop’ Chris Faiumu
A longstanding mural of David Bowie in downtown Wellington has been replaced with one paying tribute to Fat Freddy's Drop band member Chris Faiumu, who died last year. The mural, which was painted… Audio
Small Histories with Emma Kay
Tonight, a tale of a sea monster spotted off the West Coast and the chaos it caused. Audio
Memorial unveiled as tribute to Lake Alice victims
A memorial to victims of Lake Alice psychiatric hospital has been unveiled, Jimmy Ellingham talked with survivors Audio
First senior UK royal arrested in centuries - here's what we know
Explainer: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has become the first senior British royal in modern history to be arrested.
A history of royal brushes with the law
Well, it's the story that's got everyone talking - former Prince Andrew was arrested on Thursday morning UK time on suspicion of misconduct in public office ... The arrest follows allegations that he… Audio
Black Sheep S9 Elsdon Best (Part 2)
In part two, we look at the years Elsdon Best spent living in Te Urewera, attempting to preserve knowledge he believed was on the brink of being lost forever, the remarkable relatioship he built with… Audio
