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The Country Club
12:15 PM.In the early 1960s Roy Kellahan was running a horse trekking business on an old abandoned dairy farm in the Ohariu Valley, not far from Wellington. Weekend horse treks ended up being quite social… Read more Audio, Gallery
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The Tin Man of Tirau
12:10 PM.When Henry Clothier wanted to rejuvenate the public toilets in the small South Waikato town of Tirau, he knew just the man for the job - his son Steven. That's because no-one else wanted to tackle… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Long Haul: Remote Rescues by Otago's Flying Paramedics
12:15 PM.Long flights and remote locations are the norm for the pilots and paramedics of the Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust and they also cop a fair bit of adverse weather. Their patch covers 28 per cent of New… Read more Audio
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Spectrum's Life and Times - Part 2
12:10 PM.After 56 years in National Radio and 43 producing Spectrum, Jack Perkins is calling it a day. His swan song is a 2 part chat with Spectrum's co-founder, Alwyn (Hop) Owen about the life and times of… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Spectrum's Life and Times (Part 1 of 2)
12:10 PM.After 56 years in National Radio and 43 producing Spectrum, Jack Perkins is calling it a day. His swan song is a 2 part chat with Spectrum's co-founder, Alwyn (Hop) Owen about the life and times of… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Weaving the past into the future
12:10 PM.Spectrum's Lisa Thompson travelled to Lake Rotoiti to meet a couple devoted to maintaining tradition and authenticity through the art of conservation. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Wairere Treasure Trove
12:10 PM.A Swiss couple discover a rare geological treasure on their Northland property.
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Verse and Versatility
12:10 PM.Roger Lusby's skills define versatility:- mechanic, builder, craftsman, recording engineer, musician, balladeer, performance poet. Based on experience, he's written about fruit picking in Central… Read more Audio
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Mr Tuna - saving the rangitaiki’s taonga
12:05 PM.Bill Kerrison is helping save our native longfin eels or tuna. Each year he traps and transfers eels and other native fish species past a series of dams on the Rangitaiki River in the Bay of Plenty… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery
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Carpentry and Camaraderie
12:10 PM.They come for the carpentry and the mateship, and along the way they're restoring an Whangarei landmark. Read more Audio
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The Children's House
12:10 PM.Maverick and visionary, Mother Suzanne Aubert was responsible for New Zealand's first purpose-built child daycare centre behind Wellington's Basin Reserve. Both government and the public were… Read more Audio
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Automata Nocturne: A Night at the Museum
12:05 PM.This week on Spectrum - A Night at the Museum. Katy Gosset heads to the Catlins in search of the Lost Gypsy Gallery. In remote Papatowai, Blair Somerville crafts automata, or moving sculptures, from… Read more Audio
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A Stitch in Time
12:10 PM.For over seven years a dedicated group of volunteers have been passing on their quilting and life skills to prisoners at Auckland Region Women's Correctional Facility. The group is led by Mary Ann… Read more Audio, Gallery
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The Koha Shed
12:05 PM.Josie Lancaster has converted the basement of her Porirua home into a Koha Shed where people bring all manner of goods - clothes, toys, books, furniture, the list is long - to help those in need in… Read more Audio
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Last Orders
12:15 PM.This week on Spectrum: closing time at Takaka's Junction Hotel and, with it, the end of an era for long serving publican, Nola Drummond. After 50 years in the job, Nola has seen it all: bar fights… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 7 June 2015 - Print into Sound
12:10 PM.Spectrum's Jack Perkins explores the philosophy and history of Levin's Radio Reading Service which provides regional and national news and current affairs for the print disabled. A Print Disabled… Read more Audio
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One Woman, One Ambulance, WWI
12:15 PM.She was a young New Zealander driving a big old ambulance during World War One in Britain. Deborah Taylor was one only a few colonials doing that job, and a woman who was prepared to get her hands… Read more Audio
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Spectrum: Anjalee the elephant
12:15 PM.Anjalee the elephant is on her way to Auckland - via a 90 day stopover in Niue. The eight-year-old female is from a Sri Lankan elephant orphanage and is passing her quarantine period on the island… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery
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Waihi’s Little WWI Mysteries
12:15 PM.Two little World War One mysteries for the little town of Waihi; it’s all about two rolls of honour created for the men and youths from the town who went to fight in the First World War. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Power for the People
11:19 AM.In Spectrum this week Jerome Cvitanovich travels to Otematata to meet the Meridian staff who keep the Benmore dam operating and meet the men, women and children who moved to the village 50 years ago… Read more Audio
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Sculptured Words
12:40 PM.Dotted along Wellington's waterfront are plaques and inlaid benches quoting from some of New Zealand's finest writers. Accompanied by Spectrum's Jack Perkins, Rosemary Wildblood, Barbara Murison and… Read more Audio
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Free Love, Feminism and Freemans Bay
12:10 PM.In 1972 a group of radical feminists espousing Women's Liberation and Socialism bought 8 Winn Road in Freemans Bay, central Auckland. The group lived next door to another collective and down the road… Read more Audio
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
12:06 PM.Taupo's annual Medieval Fair celebrates the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, an attempt to make peace between unpopular and unscrupulous King John and the English barons. Magna Carta has resonated… Read more Audio
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War Horses
12:05 PM.Spectrum joins the Birch Hill Ride, to mark the role of horses in our military history. As ANZAC Day approaches and we remember our fallen soldiers, North Canterbury riding enthusiasts have not… Read more Audio
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Robert Frater - Death at Gallipoli
4:24 PM.A New Zealand family recalls a long-dead uncle, killed at Gallipoli. Read more Audio