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Spectrum for 8 July 2012
12:00 PM.In this Spectrum we're going a bit further afield than usual. Bamyan province - right in the centre of Afghanistan - is one of its 34 provinces, and in ancient times this region was well travelled… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 1 July 2012
1:00 PM.Since it began in 2008, Wellington's non-profit food rescue service Kaibosh has saved nearly 100,000 meals from ending up in the landfill and distributed them to charities. Spectrum's Jack Perkins… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 24 June 2012
12:15 PM.Her Majesty Queen Victoria was there. So was her right hand man, Mr Brown - solemn and kilted. It was Live Day at the Howick Historical Village, this one marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 17 June 2012
8:12 PM.From the 1940s to the 60s, Annette Mary Eleanor Jane 'Ma' Clifford was Christchurch's most prominent landlady and in the 1950s she was receiving rent from up to 550 tenants. In 2002, Deborah Nation… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 10 June 2012
12:10 PM.The drowned valleys at the top of the South Island - the Marlborough Sounds - offer an idyllic but isolated lifestyle. Folk living in the bays and inlets along this convoluted coastline require… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 3 June 2012
12:30 PM.She's been out of the water for twelve years, and looks a bit unloved. But the eighty year old Auckland Harbour ferry Toroa will sail again. A gang of determined volunteers has raised over a million… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 27 May 2012
12:12 PM.Former trade training hostel residents, along with Anglican social worker Bill Cox who ran it, remember the early days of the Maori Trade Training Hostel Te Kainga, in Hansens Lane Christchurch. The… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 20 May 2012
12:07 PM.'Ceud Mille Failte' - One hundred thousand welcomes to the 148th Turakina Highland Games. Every year since 1864, the tiny settlement of Turakina south of Whanganui has resounded to the skirl of the… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 13 May 2012
12:05 PM.The distinctive vomit-like smell of ripe fruit from a Ginkgo tree is enough to put most people off harvesting it. But each Autumn, members of the Asian community can be seen shaking the leaves of… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 12 May 2013
12:07 PM.She left home in the 1800's, and returned only fifteen years ago. After a multi-million dollar restoration, Mataatua Wharenui is back on Whakatane's foreshore. The 24-metre long meeting house was sent… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 29 April 2012 - Waipawa's Wimbledon
12:05 PM.Sharapova and Djokavitch may be missing but the competition is still fierce on court. This is Waipawa's Wimbledon with well over 100 veteran tennis players, some in their 80s, battling for supremacy… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 22 April 2012
12:10 PM.Archie Clapham trained as an engineer and for years ran the small power station that powered the Wellington tram system. He also collected clocks. By the time he was in his late 70's he had four… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 15 April 2012
12:10 PM.With half his life work destroyed by earthquakes, Christchurch conservator Graham Stewart is on a mission to save what is left of Canterbury's remarkable stained glass history. Audio
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Spectrum for 8 April 2012
12:10 PM.Pupils from Christchurch's Cashmere Primary School explore Wellington's Old St Paul's and find that uncovering the secrets and symbols of a wooden gothic cathedral is a fun way of learning. Audio
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Spectrum for 1 April 2012
12:10 PM.Surplus drugs, redundant medical equipment, dental supplies, you name it, if it's in-date and of use, Medical Aid Abroad New Zealand will take it and ship it to wherever it's needed. Founded more than… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 25 March 2012
12:05 PM.Every year, curlers from throughout the south gather for the Dunedin Masters Games. Spectrum meets veteran curlers as they compete on indoor ice rinks and enjoy the warmth and comfort of a bar and… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 18 March 2012
12:10 PM.Forty years ago to the day, 18 March 1972, the first Spectrum documentary was broadcast. Jack Perkins helped Alwyn Owen launch a human interest series which was designed as a counterbalance to the… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 11 March
12:15 PM.Summer 2012 was special for the outdoorsy Moore family of Titirangi. For the first time in years they went tramping together, complete with mother Colleen. After years of deteriorating health, 58 year… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 4 March 2012
12:05 PM.Deborah Nation visits a sound garden workshop in Okuti Valley on Banks Peninsula which inspires participants to free the voice within. Audio
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Spectrum for 26 February 2012 - Pukaha Mt Bruce
12:10 PM.Pukaha Mount Bruce reserve is the last remnant of Wairarapa's once-famous 70 Mile Bush which cloaked the countryside from Masterton north to Norsewood. Spectrum's Jack Perkins looks at the work of… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 19 February 2012
12:05 PM.Dennis (Rocky) Hall lives for the beach. Nearly 70, he is one of the country's longest serving surf lifesavers, volunteering his time at Gisborne's Midway Surf Life Saving Club for over half a… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 12 February 2012
12:05 PM.At least five companies are busy working in and around Christchurch blasting rock on unstable slopes in the hope of reducing danger since the earthquakes. Spectrum's Deborah Nation joins backcountry… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 5 February 2012
12:15 PM.Writer, film maker and sculptor Frankie Wood is 92 years-old and has been an entertainer since childhood. She still performs with her life-sized puppets, mouth organ or accordion and is always ready… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 29 January 2012
12:10 PM.Rotoroa Island in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf is no longer an 'island apart'. For a hundred years it was off-limits to the public, as the Salvation Army's alcohol and drug treatment centre. Now, after a… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for Sunday 22 January 2012
12:15 PM.Eelco Boswijk and the heyday of Chez Eelco Cafe in Nelson Read more Audio