Second World War
Covid battle takes to the skies with flights featuring Māori Battalion
As Aotearoa wages a war against Covid, there's a new battle to get vaccine rates up on the East Coast.
The descendants of the Māori Battalion are being invited to aerodromes on Saturday to get… Video, Audio
The extraordinary story of Nazi evil sewn into family armchair
World War II historian Daniel Lee's new book, The SS Officer's Armchair, came about by chance after he met a woman whose mother had taken an old armchair for reupholstering in Amsterdam. What happened… Audio, Gallery
Lachlan Paterson & Angela Wanhalla: Maori Home Front
Angela Wanhalla and Professor Lachy Paterson from the University of Otago are studying the often overlooked history of the impact of the Second World War on Maori society at home in New Zealand. With… Audio, Gallery
Calling Home: Alyn Ware in Prague
Alyn Ware has gone from teaching at kindergartens to becoming recognised as one of the world's most effective peace workers and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He's based in Prague but is Calling Home… Audio, Gallery
11: The Second World War
A second world war swept the globe, dragging New Zealand once more onto the battlefield, this time in the Pacific as well as Europe. In the likes of Crete, Greece and North Africa and on Pacific… Audio
Jung Chang: 'I still have a tremendous optimism for China'
Chinese-born British writer Jung Chang joins the show to discuss her latest book Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister and why she still remains optimistic about the future of her homeland. Audio
Army rations: The Intersection's 'War and Peas'
Feeding an army during wartime's always been a huge logistical challenge. And those challenges were magnified for the Indian army in the Second World War. From an Indian podcast called 'The… Audio
The mysterious death of a high-ranking Nazi: The Ratline
A recently released BBC series called' The Ratline' tries to uncover the truth about a senior Nazi, Baron Otto Gustav von Wächter, who disappeared after the Second World War, then died in mysterious… Audio
Riverside: a community of pastoral peacekeepers
The Riverside Community near Nelson is the oldest intentional community in New Zealand. Most of its members work on the property and share their earnings and expenses. Audio, Gallery
The Coastwatcher legacy
The Coastwatchers were small groups of men posted to New Zealand's subantarctic islands during the Second World War to watch for enemy shipping. Ian Telfer visits one of their historic huts. Audio, Gallery
The incredible sabotage that stopped Hitler from building a nuke
Hunting Hitler's Nukes describes the 10-man Mission-Impossible-style night attack on the Nazi’s nuclear program involving skiing commandos and a 600 foot climb to sabotage an isolated Norwegian… Audio
Art Crimes with Arthur Tompkins
Arthur Tompkins is a District Court judge, and editor of Art Crime and its Prevention: A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals (Lund Humphries). He has a special interest in crimes involving… Audio
The Last of the Nazi Hunters
Nazi war criminals who fled Germany at the end of World War II are dying of old age and so are the men and women who hunted them across the generations. Former Newsweek foreign correspondent Andrew… Audio
Preserving Huts Auckland Island
A self-styled sub-Antarctic Islands "nutter" thinks more people should be allowed to visit there. Audio