David Steemson
Auckland Story for 3 July 2013 - Manatunga
They're finally putting names to some faces, thanks to an exhibition of photographs of Maori that have lain unidentified for over a hundred years. Audio
NZ Society - Suicide Recovery 1
This is the first in a small series by David Steemson on people who've tried to kill themselves but have recovered, to live full lives. Today we meet Dr Sarah Gordon who is an academic advocate for… Audio
Spectrum for 23 June 2013
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… Audio
NZ Society - Tracking the Kiwi
For the first time in fifty years, the kiwis are calling on the Kaipara. Eight young birds have been welcomed on to a Kaipara farm, joining five others released two weeks before. David Steemson was… Audio
Auckland Story for 19 June 2013 - Matariki Festival
Auckland artist Lorna Rikihana of the weaving cooperative Te Roopu Raranga o Tamaki Makaurau has organised a three day workshop at Manukau for school children on harakeke weaving, pottery and… Audio
Auckland Story for 12 June 2013 - Ride sharing
A car-pooling advocate says Auckland can fix its congestion problems simply, if more Auckland drivers would only share a ride to work. Audio
Auckland Story for 5 June 2013 - Puhoi 150th
The tiny north Auckland community of Puhoi is this month celebrating its founding 150-years ago, by a boat load of settlers from Bohemia, which is now part of what is the Czech Republic. After four… Audio
Spectrum for 2 June 2013
For twenty five years Merv Smith was a house-hold name as he fronted the breakfast show on Auckland's 1ZB, New Zealand's first commercial radio station. Thousands tuned in to the Early Bird show to… Audio
Family friend remember how NZ family heard Everest news
We've been remembering Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reaching the roof of the world - Mt Everest, 60 years ago today. Back home in New Zealand, the celebrations were much more down to earth. Audio
Auckland Story for 22 May 2013 - Halfway Down
First it was just a road; twenty years ago it became a song, now its art. Composer Don McGlashan's song 'Dominion Road' has become the subject of a piece of guerrilla art, halfway down Dominion Road… Audio
Auckland Story for 15 May 2013 - Harbour Clean Up
An Auckland Trust that's collected 25 million pieces of litter from the city's harbour and the Hauraki Gulf in a decade has launched a new boat this week. Audio
Spectrum for 12 May 2013
She left home in the 1800's, and returned only fifteen years ago. After a multi-million dollar restoration, Mataatua Wharenui is back on Whakatane's foreshore. The 24-metre long meeting house was sent… Audio
Auckland Story for 8 May 2013 - Greenways Cycling
A organisation which is pushing for more cycleways in Auckland says almost half of all Aucklanders own a bike but few use them because it's just too dangerous. Audio
Auckland Story for 24 April 2013 - Refugees as Survivors
Afghan interpreters who worked with New Zealand defence force there have just moved into the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre with their families. The refugee children are being swamped with… Audio
Auckland Story for 17 April 2013 - Sealink
One of Auckland's oldest ferry companies wants to bring back car ferries between the city's North Shore and downtown. Sealink also proposes dramatically expanding Auckland's passenger ferry network to… Audio
Auckland Story for 10 April 2013 - Samoan Master Carving
A Samoan master carver is finishing his work on the last of five poles to be centre stage at a new South Auckland preschool. Each has been uniquely carved with traditional designs of five Pacific… Audio
Auckland Story for 27 March 2013 - Drought at Tawharunui
Dozens of native trees are dying at Auckland's Tawharunui Regional Park as a result of the big dry. Endangered kiwi and pateke (the New Zealand brown teal) are succumbing too. Audio
Auckland Story for 20 March 2013 - Baird's Mainfreight School
In 1993 the South Auckland freight company Mainfreight became a benefactor of Otara school Baird's Road Primary. Since then the company's given $750,000 to the school and its now bumping up its annual… Audio
Auckland Story for 13 March 2013 - Maori Suicide Prevention
Suicide rates amongst Maori in New Zealand are one-and-a-half times higher than for non-Maori. In an attempt to spread the suicide prevention message to Maori across the whole country, a series of… Audio
Auckland Story for 6 March 2013 - Arborfield Sanctuary
The Arborfield Sanctuary near Wellsford is already looking after unwanted cows, donkeys, pigs and llamas, and says it certainly can't take anymore cockerels! David Steemson's gone calling. Audio