Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
Best Radio Website
NZ Radio Awards 2009
20 March, 2010
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Society & People
Programmes are divided into two categories - those with audio on the web, and those only broadcast via radio and live streaming.
Programmes with Audio
- 20 Years Out
- 20 Years Out! marks the twentieth anniversary of the passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill in New Zealand.
- Afternoons
- The programme is based on the daring proposition that people are capable of thinking in the afternoon as well as in the morning.
- Asian Report
- A weekly report that highlights Asians in New Zealand, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of Asian New Zealanders.
- Becoming New Zealand
- George Andrews looks at some of the people and the events that determined the route we followed on our journey towards nationhood.
- Concepts Of Nationhood
- A lecture series recorded in the Great Hall, Parliament Buildings, at a symposium exploring the significance of the declaration of Dominion status for New Zealand in 1907.
- Country Life
- A weekly programme of issues and stories of particular concern to the rural community, and also of interest to a general audience.
- Diary of a Quitter
- Amelia Nurse gives up smoking and keeps an audio diary about it.
- Easter Monday
- An Easter Monday special featuring a mix of interviews, music and special reports presented by Kate Orgias.
- From Age to Age
- In this five-part series, David Steemson talks to people, many of whom have had unusual lives, about growing older.
- Global Perpectives 2009: Islands
- Documentaries from around the world.
- Good Friday
- A special programme of current affairs and conversation.
- Ideas
- A weekly programme exploring a range of philosophical, social, historical and environmental ideas.
- Jack Perkins Retrospective
- A summer series celebrating the work of New Zealand’s premier radio documentary producer.
- Journey to Haida Gwaii
- A Haida language play revitalises a community facing their language's extinction.
- Literary translation: Art or Echo?
- A four part New Zealand Society feature series looking at the role of the literary translator and the role of translations in society.
- Nelsonian Indians
- Jason Moon takes a look into a small but well-established Indian community living in Nelson.
- One in Five
- The issues and experience of disability.
- Queen's Birthday
- Special programming for Queen's Birthday.
- Queensland's Ark
- Lynn Freeman visits the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast armed with a microphone and a curiosity about Australia's endangered creatures.
- Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
- A Saturday morning mixture of current affairs, feature interviews, music and food.
- Sounds Historical
- Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic, and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
- Spectrum
- Spectrum is a long-running documentary series – it began in 1972 - which captures the essence of New Zealand through stories, landscape and people.
- Spiritual Outlook
- A seasonal interview-based programme on spiritual topics of wide ranging interest, alternating with Touchstone.
- Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw
- Discussion, features and ideas until midday.
- The Ballad of Bantam Billy
- Bill Perkins' workmates in a Lancashire coal mine gave him the name 'Bantam Billy'. He was physically small and a fighter - a fighter for socialism which he saw as the only way of alleviating the harsh living and working conditions of the working classes in the 1900s.
- The Golden Tide
- This five part documentary series takes a fresh, contemporary look at the changing nature of the Chinese community in New Zealand.
- The Macmillan Brown Lectures
- The 2009 Macmillan Brown lectures explore how Maori culture operates as a force for New Zealand's social and scientific advancement.
- The Vault
- Once a month Deb Nation compiles The Vault in Christchurch, home of our Radio Sound Archives, Nga Taonga Korero.
- Treaty of Waitangi
- This web-only feature presents a collection of audio which explores the history of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Programmes broadcast only on the radio
- Anzac Day
- A morning of current affairs and conversation
- Bare Feet and Pohutukawa
- New Zealand summer stories from the past with Wayne Mowat.
- Four 'til Eight
- A selection of special interest programmes hosted by Katrina Batten on a Sunday night.
- Touchstone
- A series exploring diverse spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics.
- Waitangi Day 2009
- Bryan Crump hosts a morning of current affairs and conversation.
- Windows on the World
- International public radio features and documentaries.
Replay Radio
A variety of special interest documentaries and lectures are available for purchase through Replay Radio.
(Please note that not all audio is available due to copyright restrictions.)