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Spectrum for 27 April 2014
12:05 PM.Researcher Margaret Tate shows Spectrums Jack Perkins around Palmerston North's Savage Crescent state housing precinct and they also meet long-time residents. Savage Crescent dates from 1937 and was… Read more Audio
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Our Glorious Heritage: New Zealand Verse
10:05 AM.Spectrum's Alwyn Owen pays tribute to some of our worst - and funniest - New Zealand verse. Audio
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Spectrum for 20 April 2014
12:05 PM.This week on Spectrum, 'The V Team'. Katy Gosset is behind the scenes at a lively Christchurch veterinary practice where staff bring their dogs to work and spaying a lioness is just another day at the… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 13 April 2014 - Magic Memories
12:15 PM.John Ewing describes his time training and working as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios in one word - magic. After twice serving with the US Navy, including a tour of duty in the Korean… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 6 April 2014
12:05 PM.In various forms, Parsons Books and Music has been a cultural landmark on Wellington's Lambton Quay since 1948. Russian composer Igor Stravinsky called it 'the most beautiful bookshop in the world'… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for Sunday 30 March 2014
12:05 PM.Chef Jo Crabb and Artist Stephen Allwood live in Martinborough. And France. Jo's got a book coming out next month which tells of travel and food and the restaurants she's run and all sorts of… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 23 March 2014
12:05 PM.Auckland has some three thousand kilometres of coastline but it seems Aucklanders know little about the coastline's impact on the health of the Hauraki Gulf. Thirty nine Auckland teenagers recently… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 16 March 2014
12:15 PM.Railway workers cottages dating from 1928 line Tarikaka St in the Wellington suburb of Ngaio. Susan Atkins lived there for 18 years from the mid-1980s. Susan and her son Arnaru recall the tightly knit… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 9 March 2014
12:05 PM.In late January this year close to 2,500 rowers descended on Lake Karapiro to compete for titles at one of New Zealand's biggest rowing regattas, the Cambridge Town Cup. Spectrum's Jerome Cvitanovich… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 2 March 2014
12:05 PM.When Liz Kiriona arrived in the small South Auckland suburb of Rata Vine 18 years ago there was a lot that was wrong with the place. The local playground was wrecked, and gangs used the little park… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 23 February 2014
12:05 PM.The 1918 flu killed Kerryn Palmer's great grandparents. Tragedies like this weren't unusual, over 8, 600 died in New Zealand from the virus. Kerryn decided to find out more about the pandemic… Read more Audio
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The Mazengarb Report
12:05 PM.On 23 July 1954, the Government appointed a special committee to enquire into moral delinquency following a series of court cases in the Hutt Valley which revealed 'a shocking degree of immoral… Read more Audio
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Katikati - The Ulster Colony Down Under
1:30 PM.Mark Thompson recounts the story of the Ulster Scots pioneers who travelled to New Zealand in the 1870's to start a new life. Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 9 February 2014
12:05 PM.The Sunburst, a sturdy, safe training boat can be found in garages, basements or upside down under a tree ready to be sailed in the holidays or long weekends. Join Spectrum's Lisa Thompson as she… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 2 February 2014
12:05 PM.The Spirit of Rangatahi Charitable Trust runs Pacific Youth development courses in Porirua for 14 to 17 year olds. They're in their fourth year now and this summer's two week programme focuses on… Read more Audio
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The Sampler for 28 January 2014
7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger reviews new albums by British Sea Power, Bruce Springsteen, and the Mark Lanegan anthology 'Has God Seen My Shadow?'. Audio
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Spectrum for 26 January 2014
12:30 PM.Katy Gosset hops aboard the tall ship Lord Nelson which has taken more than 14,000 people with disabilities to sea. Katy climbs the rigging, shares a bunkroom and finds preserved ginger to be a fine… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 19 January 2014
12:15 PM.Retired Rotorua mid-wife Katie Williams has spent the last few years, ticking off her Bucket List: get a tattoo, go skydiving, build my own coffin. The casket is now tucked away at her house… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 12 January 2013
12:05 PM.Spectrum's Lisa Thompson gets fired up at the Auckland Studio Potters annual Big Clay Day Out bash, an annual celebration of ceramics, food and fun held at the premises of the Auckland Studio Potters… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 5 January 2014
12:15 PM.Amelia Nurse talks to Jack Kelly and Tom Horn about their business Abel Tasman Kayaks and how things have changed over the years. And she joins guide Callum O'Leary and a group of kayakers for a… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 29 December 2013
12:15 PM.Nairn St's Colonial Cottage, built in 1858 by William Wallis, is only a stone's throw from the central city, yet the cottage, along with its herbal garden and its heritage chickens, retain the flavour… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 22 December 2013
12:05 PM.On December 23, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh began a five week tour of New Zealand which created unprecedented demonstrations of patriotism. Drawing on RNZ Archives and… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 15 December 2013
12:10 PM.Dog trainer Jo Goddard offers a variety of services which allow dogs and their owners to enjoy each other in a safe environment. Spectrum's Jack Perkins drops in on a Saturday morning training session… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 8 December for 2013
12:10 PM.He was New Zealand's answer to America's singing cowboys. Young Johnny Granger toured New Zealand and Australia in the 1940's, dubbed 'The Yodelling Drover'. For Spectrum, he reminisces with David… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 1 December 2013
12:05 PM.Storyteller Tanya Batt delights new entrants at Christchurch's Discovery One school, and shares the philosophy behind her craft with Spectrum's Deborah Nation. Audio