Science & Factual
Programmes are divided into two categories - those with audio on the web, and those only broadcast via radio and live streaming.
Programmes with Audio
- A To B
- How we get from A to B and the people who take us there.
- Advancing Sustainability
- This series provides five public panel discussions from the PCE20 Environmental Sustainability Conference.
- Are Angels OK
- A series of programmes arising from a collaboration between eminent New Zealand writers and physicists.
- Big Science
- Justin Gregory accompanied the winners of the Royal Society of New Zealand's Big Science Adventure competition on their trip to visit astronomers and other scientists in the UK and Italy.
- Brainstorm
- Kim Hill talks with some of Britain's top scientists
- Broken River
- In the days after the earthquake Simon Morton traverses Christhchurch using the Avon River as his route.
- But Is It Science?
- Kim Hill and a panel of experts explore the issues around alternative medicine.
- City Talk
- The hunt is on for a site in Auckland for an ecologically sustainable co-housing community. Called the Waitakere Eco Village project, it's led by Robin Allison, John Hammond, and Cathy Angell. David Steemson joins them in their quest to find the right piece of land.
- Earthshock
- A reconstruction from contemporary accounts and eyewitnesses, made in February 1981 by Jack Perkins, to mark the 50th anniversary of New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, the Hawkes Bay earthquake.
- EarthWorks
- A six-part series that explores, reveals and celebrates all the many factors that support life on this planet.
- Fault Lines
- A special feature about the residents of Canterbury, beginning at the moment when they were jolted awake at 4.35am on Saturday 4 September, and exploring what happened in the days and weeks which followed. The focus of the 50-minute programme is on the personal experiences of those affected.
- Four Regional Parks
- David Steemson visits four Auckland regional parks - Tawhitokino, Awhitu, Duder and Scandrett's.
- Great Barrier Island
- A 4-part series looking at issues arising from the changing dynamics of Great Barrier Island. In particular, the consequences of more property than ever being owned by people who don’t live permanently on the island.
- Human Rights in Papua
- 2009 marked the 40th anniversary of the incorporation of the Papua region into Indonesia. A controversial UN sponsored referendum decided the former Dutch colony's destiny in 1969, but there's still resistance to Indonesian rule. Johnny Blades of Radio New Zealand International looks at the events of 2009.
- Monumental New Zealand
- Justin Gregory explores our nation’s fascination with monuments, memorials, plaques and statues.
- Ngā Uruora
- A six-part series paralleling the 1995 book: Ngā Uruora - The Groves of Life Ecology and History in a New Zealand Landscape by Geoff Park.
- On Safari
- A three part documentary from Lynn Freeman about her experiences in Tanzania and Kenya.
- Our Changing World
- Our Changing World covers topics across all scientific disciplines, natural history and environmental issues, and developments in health as well as exploring the human side of science and the personalities behind it.
- Pathfinders
- Keith Richardson talks to members of the British Pathfinder squadron whose job was to highlight enemy targets for following bomber crews in the 1940's.
- Pole to Pole
- This three-part documentary series marks the International Polar Year by exploring some of the world’s most remote and vulnerable regions.
- Sir Douglas Robb Lectures 2011
- A series of three lectures by Tariq Ali.
- Specola Vaticana
- Located in Castel Gandolfo in the hills above Rome, Specola Vaticana is one of the oldest observatories in the world.
- Talking Heads
- Some of New Zealand’s most distinguished experts on brain and behaviour explore what makes us tick, including: how we learned to talk, how we know who we are, how memories are made, why we do bad things, and what happens when things go wrong?
- The Darwin Lectures
- Eminent New Zealand scientists explore the ideas of Darwin and their impact on society over the last 150 years.
- The E=mc2 lectures
- A series of lectures from the Royal Society in association with Radio New Zealand to mark the centenary of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.
- The Galileo Lectures
- A lecture series marking 400 years since Galileo used a telescope to view the solar system and transformed our understanding of Earth’s place in the Universe.
- The Rutherford Memorial Lecture
- Lord Rees is a cosmologist who described himself as 'a worried member of the human race'. He talks about what he thinks the world will be like in 2050.
- This Way Up
- A weekly two-hour radio show with Simon Morton, broadcast on Saturdays from 12pm-2pm exploring the things we use and consume.
- Two Views of Creation
- British Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse looks at two views of creation.
- Watching the whales in Vava'u, Tonga
- Justin Gregory visits Tonga for an ocean field trip with scientist Kirsty Russell from the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium.
Replay Radio
A variety of science and environment documentaries and lectures are available for purchase through Replay Radio.
(Please note that not all audio is available due to copyright restrictions.)