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1987

Fred Abernethy, chief engineer of the "Holmwood" tells the story of the ship being intercepted by...

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1991

Sixty years ago, in 1954, moral panic swept the country following revelations about sexual...

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1987

Regular Spectrum subject Norm Bryan of Northland, "Norm of the North", takes Alwyn Owen on a...

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1993

Spectrum visits the Maui gas field off the Taranaki coast to talk to those who work on the...

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1987

Malcolm Harrison, an Auckland long-line fisherman talks about his work to Jack Perkins. He won a...

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1987

A programme marks ANZAC Day with memories of the Boer War, WWI and WWII from soldiers and...

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1994

Marie Bayer is a Justice of the Peace and a marriage celebrant, a member of the board of Grey...

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1994

New Zealander David Galbraith's career as a concert pianist was something of a primrose path;...

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1994

Since joining the Communist Party in 1941, Ron Smith has led protests, written pamphlets and on...

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1993

In 1916 over 1,000 cases of poliomyelitis were reported in New Zealand resulting in 123 deaths....

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1993

The tropical rainforest in the higher reaches of Little Barrier Island contains a spectacular...

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1987

Five Auckland musicians look back on the dance bands of the 1920s and 1930s and the music they...

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1988

Jack Perkins joins with a group of American tourists undergoing a crash course in Aboriginal...

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1988

In this Spectrum documentary Theo Blucher describes life in the kauri gumfields, in the far north...

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1972

Spectrum was a long-running weekly radio documentary series which captured the essence of New...

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1992

Jack Perkins speaks with Keith Newth, a driver for Newmans coaches who drove the length and...

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1987

Jack Perkins and Alwyn Owen interview three subjects from Western Australia: Bill Powell, a gold...

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1991

Once a year the Castlepoint Race Meeting gives station or farm hacks a chance to don racing...

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1987

Alwyn Owen visits the settlement of Hatepe on the eastern shore of Lake Taupo and talks to Mrs...

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1994

The ultimate carnival is how New Zealander Belinda Cheney described the nine months she spent at...

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