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Spectrum for 24 November 2013
12:15 PM.For almost 100 years, Stratford hospital served the people of central Taranaki. After the hospital closed in 1998, its history was preserved in the Taranaki Pioneer Village in a re-creation of the old… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 17 November 2013
12:05 PM.Taxidermy isn't everyone's cup of tea but for Brian Staines, it's become a second career. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson spends the day with Brian and finds herself doing something she'd never imagined… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for November 10 2013
12:15 PM.Subantarctic voyager Henk Haazen ferries researchers down to the Antipodes Islands in preparation for the world's largest mouse eradication campaign. Spectrum's Deborah Nation boards Henk's research… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 3 November 2013
12:12 PM.The massive demonstrations and wave of violence which swept the country during the Great Strike of 1913 made it the most disruptive industrial dispute in the country's history. Guided by researchers… Read more Audio
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The History of Broadcasting House in Wellington
12:10 PM.In 1963, Broadcasting House opened. It was the nerve centre of the country's radio networks and home to the Capital's stations. Its Japanese-made technical equipment was state-of-the-art and its… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 20 October 2013
12:05 PM.Spectrum's Amelia Nurse marks 100 years of surf rescue along the shores of the Wellington coastal settlement of Paekakariki. Audio
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Spectrum for 13 October 2013
12:06 PM.Former meat workers Roger Middlemass and Mike Farrell show Spectrum's Jack Perkins around the now derelict Longburn freezing works near Palmerston North. The plant closed in 1986 but the skills and… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 6 October 2013
12:05 PM.When young widow Flora Thirkettle went fishing on the Kaipara Harbour to feed her seven children, the wives told their fishermen husbands not to talk to her. She says it took years from the thaw to… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 3 November 2013
12:12 PM.The massive demonstrations and wave of violence which swept the country during the Great Strike of 1913 made it the most disruptive industrial dispute in the country's history. Guided by researchers… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 29 September 2013
12:10 PM.Retired orchestral conductor Stephen Estall provides classical music for locals in The Porthole, a popular entertainment venue and watering hole in his home town of Lyttelton. Spectrum's Deborah… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 22 September 2013
12:15 PM.Wellington secondary school students hone their talents and try out art-related ideas in Fresh Horizons workshops supported by the Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust. Spectrum's Jack Perkins drops… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 15 September 2013
12:05 PM.For every hour of any operatic performance, there are untold hours of preparation. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson goes behind the curtain to visit New Zealand Opera's Technical Centre in Auckland, to… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 8 September 2013
12:05 PM.Rachel Scott talks to Deborah Nation about the alchemy of bread making while actually creating a Marlborough salted chocolate in the French style. Audio
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Spectrum for 1 September 2013
12:05 PM.Electric trams opened up Wellington's suburbs from 1904 onwards and in 1964 large crowds gathered to witness the last trams to run and also the last trams in regular passenger service in any New… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 25 August 2013
12:05 PM.Auckland's first purpose built Menzshed has just opened its doors in Glenfield. But two other Auckland sheds are following close behind. The Menzshed New Zealand Association has been formally… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 25 August 2013
12:05 PM.Auckland's first purpose built Menzshed has just opened its doors in Glenfield. But two other Auckland sheds are following close behind. The Menzshed New Zealand Association has been formally… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 18 August 2013
12:05 PM.Sue Stewart has spent 30 years keeping wasps at bay in the Banks Peninsula township of Akaroa. Deborah Nation joins Sue as she deals to the critters nesting in a hedge. Audio
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Spectrum for 11 August 2013
12:05 PM.This Spectrum, first broadcast in 1976, marks the 150 anniversary of the settlement of Puhoi, north of Auckland, by pioneers from the central European kingdom of Bohemia. In the 1970s, descendants of… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 4 August 2013
12:15 PM.When he was fourteen, Keith Nicholson fell in love with the 75-foot long naval ships bought for harbour defence during World War Two. Now, fifty years later, he and partner Heather Reeve are the proud… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 28 July 2013
12:15 PM.'Rekindle' is an initiative started since the earthquakes in Canterbury which provides purposeful work for young people by giving them the opportunity to design and fashion furniture from waste wood… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 21 July 2013
12:05 PM.Feilding Saleyards, one of the largest in the southern hemisphere, are located only two blocks from Feilding's town square. 330 sheep pens and a computerized cattle rostrum turn over $2-million a week… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 14 July 2013
12:05 PM.Bespoke shoemaker Sue Engels says the first lesson she learnt was to 'touch feet without a moment of hesitation... to encourage people to relax' Sue has had over 20 years' experience understanding the… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 7 July 2013
12:08 PM.HMS Orpheus was a Royal Navy corvette that served as flagship of the Australian squadron. Orpheus sank off the west coast of Auckland on 7 February 1863. 189 crew out of the ship's complement of 259… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 30 June 2013
12:06 PM.Now semi-retired, Geoffrey Higgs tuned his first piano in 1948. His ear has lasted and he can still coax instruments to the right pitch. He can also persuade his stiffening fingers to pick out the old… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 23 June 2013
7:30 PM.Sandringham Road shopping centre is known as Little India. The ever expanding plethora of Indian restaurants, spice shops and food stores vie for the last remaining spots where the family dry cleaner… Read more Audio