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From Age to Age
David Steemson talks with a range of interesting people about ageing.
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From Age to Age - Barry Bicknell
19 Oct 2011Barry Bricknell is a celebrated potter, and sculptor of wonderfully eccentric pieces of art. He also built the Driving Creek Railway, which is now a tourist attraction in the hills just north of… Read more Audio
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From Age to Age - Anne Barry
19 Oct 2011Anne Barry fought for years to become New Zealand's first woman fire fighter. Eventually she did, in a blaze of publicity! She went on to fight fires round Auckland till the mid 1990s. For the last… Read more Audio
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From Age to Age - Betty Ransom
19 Oct 2011American-born Betty Ransom lived around Asia with her diplomat husband. Today she is a widow living with her oldest daughter in a small New Zealand country town. She has lost both husband and her… Read more Audio
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From Age to Age - John and Cath Carpenter
19 Oct 2011John and Kath Carpenter were bikies in their "yoof". Kath always sat on the back but then she was badly injured in a motorcycle accident, and John has spent the last thirty years NOT looking in… Read more Audio
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From Age to Age - Maureen Thomas
19 Oct 2011Maureen Thomas grew up in India between the two world wars, at the height of the British rule. Thirty years later she found herself living in New Zealand with four children, pregnant with a fifth, and… Read more Audio