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Spectrum for 12 October 2014
12:07 PM.A look at the Rural Education Activities Programme (REAP ) - an innovative education initiative launched in New Zealand in 1979 . This unique 'cradle to the grave' education programme was set up to… Read more Audio
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Orpheus Beaumont - Lifesaver
12:10 PM.Orpheus Beaumont was named after New Zealand's worst maritime disaster, the sinking of the HMS Orpheus on the Manukau Harbour Bar 151 years ago. It was thought her teenage brother, Henry Newman, was… Read more Audio
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St John's Archivists
12:10 PM.Everyone knows the Order of St John in New Zealand, which operates most of the country's ambulance services. But what do you know about its history? Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 21 September 2014
12:10 PM.Vincent Aspey was a key figure in the development of music in the middle of last century. For 20 years he was leader of the National Orchestra formed in 1946 (later re-named the NZ Symphony Orchestra)… Read more Audio
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And the Band Played On
12:15 PM.'Brass banding is a great relaxation,' says Bill Rimmer, a Soprano Cornet player with The Band of the Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery, 'We all come from different walks of life…and we're all… Read more Audio
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Tiritiri 25
12:10 PM.Tiritiri Matangi means 'buffeted by wind'. These days the windy island just off Auckland is a bushy sanctuary to thousands of native birds. Some of them hadn't been seen in Auckland for a hundred… Read more Audio
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Anna's Weft and Warp
12:15 PM.Jack Perkins discovers an Aladdin's cave of oriental rugs and carpets in the central Wellington workshop of Anna Williams. Anna has been repairing these exotic floor coverings and wall hangings for… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 24 August 2014 - Unsung Heroes
12:15 PM.In a few small rooms packed to the ceiling with storage boxes, Robert Johnson and Lisa Young make sure the music happens for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. It's their job to find that obscure… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 17 August 2014
12:05 PM.Alwyn Owen explores the lighter side of New Zealand's poetry of patriotism which was fashionable during the latter half of the 19 century and the early 20th. Our patriotic versifiers were eclectic… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 17 August 2014
12:05 PM.Alwyn Owen explores the lighter side of New Zealand's poetry of patriotism which was fashionable during the latter half of the 19 century and the early 20th. Our patriotic versifiers were eclectic… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 10 August 2014
12:05 PM.Eleven year-old Jo Hamid and her family of seven emigrated from England to New Zealand in 1950. The boat passage cost 10 pounds and children travelled free. During the immediate post war years, this… Read more Audio
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Knitted knockers
12:00 PM.'You do get tongue-tied,' giggles Marie Hindmarsh, one half of the group Knocker Knitters. 'You were going knicker-knotters at one stage!' laughs her friend and partner in knitting, Christina… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 27 July 2014
12:05 PM.David Steemson drops in on kilt maker Eric Von Hurst who learned the craft when he was a young man in the Canadian army. He's one of only two certified kilt makers in New Zealand. Each kilt contains a… Read more Audio
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Spectrum 20 July
12:00 PM.Dog adopters gather to picnic and celebrate. Organised by the Wellington SPCA, this open-air event attracts dozens of animal lovers and voluntary SPCA workers but the main focus is on those who have… Read more Audio
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Spectrum Sunday 13 July
12:00 PM.A group of Kaimanawa horses, which once roamed wild over the Central Plateau, are proving how adaptable they can be by learning to bow, use a seesaw and perform to music. With these skills, Robin… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 6 July 2014
12:05 PM.You arrive with a bang on Little Barrier Hauturu. The island's been a wild life sanctuary since 1897, there's no jetty, and the boat carrying visitors lands by speeding up a ramp on shore, and then… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 29 June 2014
12:00 PM.Spectrum's Jerome Cvitanovich visits Te Puna Wai Ora - the Spring of Life. This natural fountain in the suburb of Petone supplies an estimated 250,000 litres of water a month to the people of… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 22 June 2014
12:05 PM.Twelve women, aged between 50 and mid-70s and mainly from Taranaki, recently trekked for 3 days through Nepal's mountain passes to the remote village of Kharikhola. They were accompanied by Sherpa… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 15 June 2014
12:05 PM.It's one of New Zealand's greatest aviation questions - did farmer and inventor Richard Pearse achieve controlled flight before the Wright Brothers in 1903? While a definitive answer may never be… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 8 June 2014
12:05 PM.During the Great Depression of the 1930s, George Davies, along with his mates Curly and Big Mac, gave up the struggle to survive in the city and travelled to the Howard goldfield in the Upper Buller… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 1 June 2014
12:05 PM.Wellington's St Peters Anglican church on Willis St, established in 1848, has a long history of providing succour for the poor and under-privileged and taking a strong stand on controversial topics… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 25 May 2014
12:05 PM.Caesar Roose was born in 1886 on an island in the Waikato River, opposite the railway town of Mercer. At the age of eighteen, he launched his first commercial boat and for the next 60-years Roose… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 18 May 2014
12:10 PM.The Battle for Monte Cassino, 70 years ago, has been described as the 'forgotten campaign' of the Second World War. But for mosaic artist, Janice Corbishley, the connection with the small Italian town… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 11 May 2014
12:05 PM.Working with temperatures in excess of 1000 °C, blacksmith Kim Nielsen says on a cold winter's day there's no better place to be than next to his forge. Kim and his father Ian run one of the last… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 4 May
12:05 PM.Paul Charman captures the sound of places seldom trod and talks to passengers with a life-long passion for birds and an enduring love of plants.
Each summer fewer than a thousand nature tourists get… Read more Audio