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Spectrum for 23 December 2012
12:05 PM.Just days before Christmas, a Christchurch homeless man shares his world with Spectrum. In the wasteland near the central city but outside the patrolled red-zone, vagrants and squatters have never had… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 16 December 2012
12:08 PM.Young Aucklander Eddie Vazey died in World War Two. His family has just heard his voice for the first time since then. Twenty four year old Eddie was lost when HMS Neptune was sunk in the… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 9 December 2012
12:10 PM.Dannevirke's main street boasts a Fantasy Cave, maintained by a tight core of 13 cave-dwelling locals with an impressive array of skills, supported by an army of volunteers. Beginning in 1989 as a… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 2 December 2012
12:05 PM.Members of the Association of Blind Citizens visit The Suter Art Gallery in Nelson and take a rare opportunity to touch the art and sculpture on show. Audio
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Spectrum for 25 November 2012
12:08 PM.Wellington Kindergartens developed The YMen project with help from government. It addresses the chronic shortage of men working in childhood education and also the high rates of unemployment among… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 18 November 2012
12:05 PM.Spectrum's Lisa Thompson climbs aboard the almost 80 year-old yacht Ranui to meet former fisherman turned lawyer Richard Allen. Richard has had the sea in his blood since he was a young boy. He boasts… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for Wednesday 14 November
7:30 PM.'Innocents Abroad'. Between 1962 and 1974 Volunteer Service Abroad ran a school-leaver programme sending seventeen to eighteen year-olds fresh out of school off into remote corners of South East Asia… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 11 November
12:00 PM.The Nelson Ark Audio
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Spectrum for 4 November 2012
12:05 PM.Spectrum's Jack Perkins records at a self defence course for 11 to 13 year-old girls at Wellington's Holy Cross school. In 2011 alone, 11,463 girls from around the country attended Self Defence… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 28 October 2012
12:15 PM.Take twenty young Kiwi business women, add four ‘token’ males, plus two builder blokes, and send them to Sri Lanka. What do you get? Four new brick and tile houses. The New Zealanders were part of a… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 21 October 2012
12:17 PM.Spectrum's Deborah Nation joins Christchurch City Mission delivery truck driver Brian Smithers on a house-lot pick up, as the Aranui owners prepare their family home for demolition. Audio
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Spectrum for 14 October 2012
12:05 PM.The original 2 roomed cottage, built in the 1840s, sits on whale vertebrae from Kaikoura's shore-based whaling station. The rest of Fyffe House reflects the hardships endured by the families who lived… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 7 October 2012
12:05 PM.Every so often Pearl, Basil, Monty and Cracker like to get together with thirty of their mates for a Saturday morning walk. Oh, and thirty humans come too. You see P, B, M and C are all beagles, a… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 30 September 2012
12:05 PM.English doctor Angus Priddy 's love of sailing brought him across the globe to New Zealand and to Invercargill hospital. 'It's the bottom of the world' he admitted, but at least I have the Pacific as… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 23 September 2012
12:10 PM.Dr Arthur George Harvey practised in the southern Taranaki town of Waverly and its backblocks from 1895 until his death in 1927 at the age of 61. He served the district beyond the call of duty and met… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 16 September 2012
12:10 PM.When Thomas and Mahrukh Stazyk purchased a disused dairy farm overlooking the Kaipara Harbour in 2003, they had a vision to establish a special retreat for people to relax and rejuvenate. However… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 9 September 2012
12:05 PM.Stonemason Mark Whyte puts sculpting commissions aside in order to respond to the Christchurch earthquakes and save classic street facades from the 1870s. Across the Red Zone and 3 generations of the… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 2 September 2012
12:05 PM.An affectionate look back to the 47 year-old tradition of Broadcasts to Schools, and particularly its singing lessons, which all ended in the final school term of 1979. Audio
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Spectrum for 26 August 2012
12:06 PM.It's only been a week but with guidance from graffiti artist Otis Frizzel, young Wauki Paniani has finished a massive mural of the face of Jesus. Wauki is part of a project for a group of fifteen and… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 19 August 2012
12:15 PM.German master craftsman Norbert Kleinschmidt has built a new thatched roof on the 'old slab hut', a south Canterbury landmark. Norbert talks to Spectrum's Deborah Nation about his life and work as New… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 12 August 2012
12:30 PM.In 1912, Arthur Chorlton, Ernest Gilling, and Harold Richards drove their Model T Ford Roadster along the seemingly impassable tracks of the King Country and pointed the way to main road travel… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 5 August 2012
12:10 PM.For thirty five years Dr John Swinney's been hoarding bits of redundant apparatus from Whangarei Hospital and any medical stuff that didn't seem to be wanted by anyone else. His collection quickly… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 29 July 2012
12:05 PM.Barrister and actor Mervyn Glue, fondly regarded as Christchurch's Rumpole, looks back over his long career. Audio
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Spectrum for 22 July 2012
12:05 PM.Specialist palliative care nurse Joan Doyle sees her work as walking alongside her terminally ill patients, helping them to live their lives to the full. They live at home and can call on Lower Hutt's… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 15 July 2012
12:10 PM.Every Sunday for over three decades, the pleasing sounds of hissing steam, trains tooting and tracks clickity clacking, have echoed around Centre Park in the Auckland suburb of Mangere. And if the sun… Read more Audio