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Spectrum Programme Catalogue
This page provides audio on demand access to Spectrum programmes back to July 2007.
Audio from new programmes is added on an ongoing basis after broadcast.
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- Sunday, 07 February 201070 Years in the Trade: In 1939 Ray Rook left school and went to work as an apprentice at the local garage in Okato, Taranaki. Apart from his time away in the Air Force, he has never worked anywhere else.
- Sunday, 31 January 2010It's hard to imagine homelessness in Invercargill, but they're there. So are the Salvation Army, taking food and hot drinks to them and many others, on a Friday night. It's what Captains Ralph and Nicky Hargest call the ambulance ministry, and the Ambo is a welcome sight.
- Sunday, 24 January 2010The wildest and remotest stretch of the river runs 90kms through the gorges of Whanganui National Park where there is no electricity, cellphone or Internet coverage, or road access. Canoeists take their own provisions, and chance their luck at huts and camping grounds en route.
- Sunday, 17 January 2010Katy Gosset delves into the world of children's theatre at the Malthouse, Christchurch's historic haven for young drama lovers.
- Sunday, 10 January 2010Briar Whitehead explores the tiny fishing village of Ngawi on the edge of Cook Strait.
- Sunday, 03 January 2010Morris dancers from all over the place converge on the Taranaki town of Eltham to dance, sing, bend the elbow and celebrate the madness of all things Morris. Spectrum investigates the bells, the whistles – and the beer.
- Sunday, 27 December 2009Tall ship Soren Larsen is a grand old lady of the sea – all well scrubbed decks, gleaming brass and elegant square sails. Robin Falvey, the crew and the trainees slip the moorings and head out onto the blue.
- Sunday, 20 December 2009Jack Perkins tries his hand at archery at the Randwick Archery club in the Hutt valley and discovers that archery has come a long way since the days of Robin Hood and Agincourt.
- Sunday, 13 December 2009Former drill sergeant from the mining towns of Australia, now an energy healer who offers her gift for alternative healing free of charge, Rachel Wotton tells her story.
- Sunday, 06 December 2009Strange Occurrences: Justin Gregory joins some ghost hunters in their search for the truth at a ‘haunted’ house in Wellington.
- Sunday, 29 November 2009Craig Shepherd’s rolling acres west of Wellington provide both haven and hospital for ducks and a range of other birds. Birds in need are sent in from all over the country and from Wellington’s SPCA. Jack Perkins peers into cages and talks to Craig about his passion for all things feathered.
- Sunday, 22 November 2009After twenty years of dairy farming Wendy Fulton’s decided she wants to build her own dream home. So she chucked in the cows and has gone back to school at the Manukau Institute of technology to become a carpenter.
- Sunday, 15 November 2009What is it about the port town of Lyttelton that attracts so many artists and other interesting characters? In Harbour SouNZ we talk to a group of young musicians, as well as Robin Judkins, about life and music in small town New Zealand.
- Sunday, 08 November 2009Jack Perkins visits Porirua’s Trash Palace, an Aladdin’s cave of recyclable treasures – furniture, whiteware, electrical items, books, toys and clothes.
- Sunday, 01 November 2009Jo's Lovely Bones: David Steemson spends an evening with Joanne Drayton, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, biographer, and carver, as she boils, bleaches, scrapes and carves.
- Sunday, 25 October 2009Shadow Play: A former sex worker tells of her journey into the industry, and visiting an old haunt brings back lots of memories and more than a few funny stories.
- Sunday, 18 October 2009Tea and Talking: Members of the New Zealand Defense Force provincial reconstruction team prepare for deployment in Afghanistan by role-playing meetings with village headmen.
- Sunday, 11 October 2009Our Boy in Berlin: Sapna Samant follows Ben Smith on his alternative tour of Berlin street art.
- Sunday, 04 October 2009One Day in Prison: Sage Forest joins the visitors at the Invercargill Prison open day.
- Sunday, 27 September 2009Road Crash Rescue: Jack Perkins gets close to the action at Greytown’s Road Crash Rescue competition
Favourites
A collection of favourites from the Spectrum team
Between the City and the SeaJack Perkins draws material from 35 years of Spectrum documentaries and
traces the history of the harbour and waterfront from the colonial
period to the heyday of the great merchant fleets of 60 years ago.
Wah Lee - Peace and ProsperityWah Lee the shop, has been supplying spices, medicines and a plethora of Asian goods to Aucklanders for a hundred years. 
Romancing The SteamThere’s something about a steam locomotive. You only need to ride one and hear the car horns and cheerful yells to realise it.-
The Books Of BrancepethThe stained and scorched collection - discovered at Brancepeth Station
- contains more than 2000 volumes of popular fiction and general works,
and is a rare example of an intact 19th century library. 
Kauri and KarakiaKoro Carman’s eco-tour company Footprints Waipoua which includes a spine-tingling night-time visit to the giant kauri Tane Mahuta in the
Waipoua Forest.
Orangutan IslandA New Zealand team hope that telling the orangutans’ stories might be in time to save the species.
Tarara Love TalesHundreds of Maori and Croatian families celebrate their mixed bloodlines at the 10th anniversary of Tarara Day.
Towards a NationEmma Puloka's work in her native Tonga has earned her science scholarship at Canterbury University.
Most popular
The Disappearing, Reappearing Gun EmplacementExploring the Bastion Point gun emplacement beneath the Michael Joseph Savage Memorial, built in the in the 1880s at the height of the “Russian Scare”.
Preserving For PosterityBook conservator Paul Taylor.
From the Living to the Living RoomSonia Yee visits Taxidermist Limited in Christchurch, to discuss the fine art of a family trade.
More than the Girl Next DoorAnorexia survivor Juliet Williams who's on a mission to help others.
Life after the Whale ChaseChanging of the guard on Greenpeace's anti-whaling ship, Esperanza.
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