Society & People
Programmes are divided into two categories - those with audio on the web, and those only broadcast via radio and live streaming.
Programmes with Audio
- 20 Years Out
- 20 Years Out! marks the twentieth anniversary of the passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill in New Zealand.
- Afternoons
- The programme is based on the daring proposition that people are capable of thinking in the afternoon as well as in the morning.
- Asian Report
- A weekly report that highlights Asians in New Zealand, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of Asian New Zealanders.
- Auckland Stories
- Tales of urban life in Tāmaki Makaurau.
- Becoming New Zealand
- George Andrews looks at some of the people and the events that determined the route we followed on our journey towards nationhood.
- Books that Built New Zealand
- Four New Zealand writers and thinkers nominate the locally-grown work that they think has done the most to help make ournation, to inculcate an idea of ourselves and to nurture a notion of New Zealandness.
- Broken River
- In the days after the earthquake Simon Morton traverses Christhchurch using the Avon River as his route.
- 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.
- Concepts Of Nationhood
- A lecture series recorded in the Great Hall, Parliament Buildings, at a symposium exploring the significance of the declaration of Dominion status for New Zealand in 1907.
- Country Life
- A weekly programme of issues and stories of particular concern to the rural community, and also of interest to a general audience.
- Diary of a Quitter
- Amelia Nurse gives up smoking and keeps an audio diary about it.
- Earthquake Gallery
- Photographs taken by Marcus Irvine. Many of these images were taken in the first hour after the quake.
- Earthquake Gallery
- Photographs taken by Simon Morton as he travelled by bicycle from the source of the Avon in the West to Heathcote Estuary in the East, where the Avon meets the Pacific.
- Earthquake Gallery
- Photographs taken by Matt Thomson taken on a media tour 12 days after the quake.
- 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.
- Easter Monday
- An Easter Monday special featuring a mix of interviews, music and special reports.
- 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.
- Flavour
- Flavour comprises taste, aroma, odour, pungency and mouthfeel. Amelia Nurse takes Justin to Chef Ryan Tattersal’s restaurant Cobar in Days Bay to discuss these elements of taste.
- From Age to Age
- In this five-part series, David Steemson talks to people, many of whom have had unusual lives, about growing older.
- Full Name Please
- A four part series by Amelia Nurse exploring names.
- Global Perspectives 2009: Islands
- Documentaries from around the world.
- Gone Country
- John Bluck left a busy urban life and moved to a small country village north of Auckland. In this series he describes his attempts to learn the art of living rurally.
- Good Friday
- A special programme of current affairs and conversation.
- 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.
- Humour
- In this New Zealand society feature Amelia Nurse takes a look at humour.
- Ideas
- A weekly programme exploring a range of philosophical, social, historical and environmental ideas.
- Jack Perkins Retrospective
- A summer series celebrating the work of New Zealand’s premier radio documentary producer.
- Journey to Haida Gwaii
- A Haida language play revitalises a community facing their language's extinction.
- Literary translation: Art or Echo?
- A four part New Zealand Society feature series looking at the role of the literary translator and the role of translations in society.
- Marrying Out
- An award-winning radio series on sectarianism and mixed marriage in Australia.
- Muslim Communities in New Zealand
- Nelsonian Indians
- Jason Moon takes a look into a small but well-established Indian community living in Nelson.
- New Zealand As It Might Have Been
- This series gets a little speculative. Producer Justin Gregory asks some of our best and brightest what would have happened if certain key events in our history had never occurred, and investigates life in New Zealand as it might have been.
- One in Five
- The issues and experience of disability.
- Queen's Birthday
- Special programming for Queen's Birthday.
- Queensland's Ark
- Lynn Freeman visits the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast armed with a microphone and a curiosity about Australia's endangered creatures.
- Sailing
- In this New Zealand Society series Amelia Nurse looks into what keeps us returning to the sea.
- Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
- A Saturday morning mixture of current affairs, feature interviews, music and food.
- Sounds Historical
- Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic, and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
- Southern Stories
- Tales of life in Te Waipounamu.
- Spectrum
- Spectrum is a long-running documentary series – it began in 1972 - which captures the essence of New Zealand through stories, landscape and people.
- Spiritual Outlook
- Our regular catch up with the world of religion, spirituality, faith and ethics – presented by Justin Gregory, Mike Gourley and Sonia Yee.
- Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw
- Discussion, features and ideas until midday.
- The Ballad of Bantam Billy
- Bill Perkins' workmates in a Lancashire coal mine gave him the name 'Bantam Billy'. He was physically small and a fighter - a fighter for socialism which he saw as the only way of alleviating the harsh living and working conditions of the working classes in the 1900s.
- The Golden Tide
- This five part documentary series takes a fresh, contemporary look at the changing nature of the Chinese community in New Zealand.
- The Macmillan Brown Lectures
- The 2010 Macmillan Brown Lecture Series. Associate Professor Roger Fyfe (Senior Curator Anthropology, Canterbury Museum) surveys the development of museums in New Zealand in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, asking “who owns the past?”
- The Returning
- The Returning pays tribute to two notable New Zealand poets who have recently passed away, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell and Meg Campbell.
- The Treaty Debates
- The Te Papa treaty debates from 2005 up to the present.
- The Trouble Begins at Eight
- A four-part documentary series on American author Mark Twain’s 1895 lecture tour of New Zealand.
- The Vault
- Once a month Deb Nation compiles The Vault in Christchurch, home of our Radio Sound Archives, Nga Taonga Korero.
- Treaty of Waitangi
- This web-only feature presents a collection of audio which explores the history of the Treaty of Waitangi.
- Untold Tales of New Zealand Chinese History
- Much is known about early Chinese settlement from the first influx of Chinese gold-miners in the mid 1800's, to the anti Chinese immigration policy that evolved soon after. But some stories have rarely been told.
- Waitangi Rua Rautau Lectures
- The annnual Waitangi Rua Rautau lecture looks forward to the Waitangi bicentenary in 2040.
- Whangamomona
- Justin Gregory takes the Forgotten World Highway to stay at an historic hotel, rediscover a lost civilisation, talk about the past, present and future and join the locals for a drink or two as they celebrate all things Taranaki.
Programmes broadcast only on the radio
- Anzac Day
- A morning of current affairs and conversation.
- Four 'til Eight
- A selection of special interest programmes hosted by Katrina Batten on a Sunday night.
- Waitangi Day
- Kim Hill and Paul Diamond host a Waitangi Day Special from Puke Ariki in New Plymouth.
- Windows on the World
- International public radio features and documentaries.
Replay Radio
A variety of special interest documentaries and lectures are available for purchase through Replay Radio.
(Please note that not all audio is available due to copyright restrictions.)