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TAUTAI / NAVIGATE - Celebrating 30 years of Contemporary Pacific Arts
12:15 PM.For thirty years Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust has been helping artists of Pacific heritage to navigate the tricky waters of the art world. To celebrate, they are holding a large-scale… Read more Audio
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Send In The Clowns
12:10 PM.The country's clown doctors are using laughter to engage with older patients and now they're keen to spread the word. Read more Audio, Gallery
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The Complicated Game of Love
12:10 PM.Songwriters, poets, and artists the world over have found great inspiration from it, but today, finding love is a game that comes with a raft of complicated, and sometimes unwritten rules. Read more Audio
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Fighting fever with healthy habits
12:15 PM.Schools in Porirua are tackling high rates of rheumatic fever by teaching their students healthy habits from the start. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Life 101
12:10 PM.The Life 101 course was first designed for school-leavers. Now it's helping prisoners at Auckland Prison at Paremoremo to prepare for life on the outside. Read more Audio
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Armageddon
12:15 PM.Caver Neil Silverwood is a man with a dream. He wants to find the missing connection between the West Coast's Fox River caves and a nearby system ominously-named Armageddon. If he can make it happen… Read more Audio
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Survival of the Fittest
12:15 PM.Just three years before his podium finish at the Crankworx mountain bike festival in Whistler, Canada, Jamie Nicoll was trapped in a harness engulfed in flames on the side of a ravine in remote… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Spectrum:The Town That Wouldn't Lie Down
12:12 PM.A colourful portrait of Blackball, told from the vantage point of 1975 - four years after the government closed The Paparoa Mine at Roa. With the great days of coal gone, the inhabitants of this West… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 10 January 2016 (Part 2)
2:05 PM.Spectrum for 10 January 2016 (A Workin' On The Whalin' O - Part 2) Dan Bergin sings of his life as a whaler working out of Great Barrier Island in the 1950s and recalls his work as a deer-culler and… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 10 January 2016 (Part 1)
12:15 PM.Spectrum for 10 January 2016 (I Remember Mother's Mother - Part 1) Dan Bergin sings a tribute to his Irish grandmother as part of his recollections of Wanganui's Dublin Street and the colourful folk… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 3 January 2016
12:15 PM.Spectrum for 3 January 2016 (I've Swung An Axe and Humped A Swag) Bob Edwards provides a detailed account of his life as a swaggie and bushman. Audio
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Spectrum for 27 December 2015
12:15 PM.Spectrum for 27 December 2015 (The Homefront War) Ena Ryan talks to Jack Perkins about wartime Wellington of the 1940s. As battles raged and casualties mounted, those left behind to keep the home… Read more Audio
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Tapping into the Past
12:15 PM.The Cook Islands' traditional form of tattoo which was all but wiped out by colonisation but there are some ta tatau artists who are keeping the old ways alive. Read more Audio, Gallery
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If These Walls Could Talk
12:10 PM.This week on Spectrum – she came down with crash six months ago. But, before her much vaunted implosion, the Christchurch Central Police Station had already known plenty of action. Katy Gosset talks… Read more Audio
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Barry Brickell turns 80
12:10 PM.A grand old man of Coromandel looks back on his life. Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 8 November 2015 - Waikeria Prison
12:10 PM.Earlier this year, Waikeria Prison won a Corrections Leadership award from Arts Access Aotearoa for facilitating activities including kapa haka, whakairo (carving), music, poetry, raranga (weaving)… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Spectrum for 22 November 2015
3:35 PM.Stories from mothers for whom pregnancy brought unexpected fears in a story about Perinatal depression, 'More than the Baby Blues'. Audio
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Teaching the 'sweet science' of boxing
12:15 PM.This week, we're off to Lower Hutt - north of Wellington - where boxing coach Billy Graham has devoted his life to teaching young boxers at his Naenae Boxing Academy. Read more Audio
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Going begging
12:10 PM.RNZ producers David Steemson and Jason Te Kare reflect on an afternoon spent asking for money on Auckland's Queen Street. Read more Video, Audio
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Centennial Street Shuts
12:10 PM.A long term fixture at Auckland Museum is going 'virtual'. Read more Audio
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Elevation by Doug Kelly's Radio Band
12:17 PM.They've got more than 300 years of jazz experience between them. And yet Christchurch musicians, Doug Kelly, Doug Caldwell, Harry Voice and Gerald Marston still struggle to pin down the mysterious… Read more Audio
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When Jazz Came to Town
12:15 PM.This week on Spectrum: It may be elusive but when its good, everyone knows it. We're talking about jazz. Next Sunday, Heritage Week in Christchurch pays tribute to the city's early jazz musicians with… Read more Audio
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Rangitoto Ships Recycled
12:10 PM.It's been one man's quest to record the whereabouts of ships scuttled on Rangitoto island before they vanish. Read more Audio, Gallery