Heroes

Three Minutes Max: succinct opinions from a variety of New Zealanders on all sort of topics. Here's AUT professor Allan Blackman on the recent death of musician Noel Scott Engel - aka Scott Walker. Audio

Military historian Professor Glyn Harper has a new book out as well - it's called For King and Other Countries and focuses on the New Zealanders who served outside the New Zealand forces in the first… Audio, Gallery

France has offered citizenship to Mamoudou Gassama, an illegal immigrant who climbed up the outside of an apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a balcony. Video, Audio

Thomas Goss compares the cinematic narrative of the epic hero-composer to our own assumptions and impulses in appreciating concert music. Audio