Lectures & Forums
This section has Radio New Zealand Lectures & Forums on demand, and information about past and future broadcasts.
There is a separate section for Documentaries.
- Advancing Sustainability
- A series of five public panel discussions from the PCE20 Environmental Sustainability Conference.
- Are Angels OK
- A series of programmes arising from a collaboration between eminent New Zealand writers and physicists.
- Big Data
- A discussion series chaired by Kim Hill exploring the nature and implications of big data and how it may serve as a tool in facing the challenges of the current era.
- Brainstorm
- Kim Hill talks with some of Britain's top scientists.
- But Is It Science?
- Kim Hill and a panel of experts explore the issues around alternative medicine.
- Concepts Of Nationhood
- A lecture series recorded in 2007 in the Great Hall, Parliament Buildings, at a symposium exploring the significance of the declaration of Dominion status for New Zealand in 1907.
- Constitutional Review Debates
- A five-part series examining aspects of the New Zealand Constitutional Review being carried out by the Government.
- Election Referendum Forum
- Hosted by Nigel Roberts, this forum explores issues and questions about the 2011 referendum on New Zealand’s voting system, recorded in front of an audience at Te Papa.
- Evolution: The Real Genesis
- Professor Lloyd Geering outlines the way modern scientists have been revealing the story of how we humans came to be here on planet earth.
- He Waka Tangata
- The inaugural He Waka Tangata Lecture in Social Science was presented by Professor Richard Bedford who reflected on contemporary social science in New Zealand.
- Janet Frame Memorial Lectures
- Intended to help improve understanding of what it means to be a writer in New Zealand, the Janet Frame Memorial Lectures deliver an overview of the state of the nation’s literature from the point of view of one of its most active authors.
- Sir Douglas Robb Lectures 2011
- A series of three lectures by Tariq Ali.
- Smart Talk at the Auckland Museum
- A series of panel discussions recorded before an audience at the Auckland Museum, as part of the popular LATE at the Museum evenings.
- Talking Heads
- The Royal Society Science Lecture Series, hosted by Kim Hill.
- The Darwin Lectures
- Eminent New Zealand scientists explore the ideas of Darwin and their impact on society over the last 150 years.
- The E=mc2 lectures
- A series of lectures from the Royal Society in association with Radio New Zealand to mark the centenary of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity in 2005.
- The Galileo Lectures
- A lecture series marking 400 years since Galileo used a telescope to view the solar system and transformed our understanding of Earth’s place in the Universe.
- The Macmillan Brown Lectures
- Exploring a wide range of subjects about New Zealand and Pacific history and culture, the MacMillan Brown Lecture series has been an institution at the University of Canterbury since 1941.
- The Reeves Lecture
- A series set up in the memory of Bishop Sir Paul Reeves, former Archbishop of the Anglican Church of New Zealand, and Governor-General.
- The Rutherford Memorial Lecture
- Lord Rees is a cosmologist who described himself as 'a worried member of the human race'. He talks about what he thinks the world will be like in 2050.
- The Transit of Venus Lectures
- A series of lectures from 2004 covering the broad themes related to the Transit of Venus.
- The Treaty Debates
- The Te Papa treaty debates from 2005 up to the present.
- Two Views of Creation
- British Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse looks at two views of creation.
- Waitangi Rua Rautau Lectures
- The annnual Waitangi Rua Rau Tau lecture looks forward to the Waitangi bicentenary in 2040.
- Writers and Readers Festivals
- Coverage of New Zealand Writers' Festivals.
- You Call This Art?
- Filmmakers, performance artists, musicians, actors, sculptors and writers explore their approach to creating art.
Coming Up:
- Craig McCulloch explores the lack of women in New Zealand's police force, in Insight
- The influence of religion on the history of business and the economy in New Zealand in Ideas
