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Spectrum for 16 June 2013
12:10 PM.Cavaliere Signor Giovanni Mersi is 83, and for the last 70 years he's been the self-appointed guardian of the first Italian edition (1787) of Captain Cook's journals. Amelia Nurse visits Giovanni to… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 9 June 2013
12:15 PM.The sturdy, light and versatile Irish currach is used along Ireland's remote Atlantic coast for fishing, ferrying, and transporting goods and livestock, including sheep and cattle. But a group of… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 2 June 2013
12:06 PM.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… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 26 May 2013
12:06 PM.Since the Christchurch earthquakes propelled Paul Fleming from his Chancery Lane shop in central Christchurch, he has begun a business called 'Happy Tours' featuring an immaculate Austin Seven called… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 19 May 2013
12:08 PM.Excavator operators demonstrate skill and precision in using their 12-tonne diggers to pour tea from a teapot attached to their massive claw-buckets and even add a teaspoon of sugar but there's also… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 12 May 2013
12:10 PM.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… Read more Audio
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Poet Ben Brown
12:07 PM.The Port town of Lyttelton- just through the tunnel from Christchurch- embraces and celebrates its musicians and artists. Poet Ben Brown is one of these and we hear Ben in public performance and he… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 28 April 2013
12:15 PM.Keen landscapers and DIYers turn up with their trailers, buckets and shovels, eager to collect gravel or river stones from the Otaki river bed for their garden or home projects. Normally permission is… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 21 April 2013
12:06 PM.Longer than 3 rugby fields and equal to the height of a 23-storey building, Cunard's 151-thousand-tonne flagship Queen Mary 2 is the largest ship to ever visit New Zealand. She recently called into… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 14 April 2013
12:07 PM.Cantabrians raise funds for their Cathedral by gathering at Lansdowne Park and Homestead to picnic and listen to Mozart arias at a Glyndebourne-inspired concert. Audio
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Spectrum for 7 April 2013
12:20 PM.Spectrum's Jack Perkins traces the story of Pumpkin Cottage in Silverstream, Upper Hutt, which became an artists' retreat for early impressionists such as James Nairn and Mabel Hill, who travelled to… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 31 March 2013
12:07 PM.It's a museum of dreams and memories. A bit tongue-in-cheek really, but its founder was inspired by a friend with Alzheimers. The tiny Jonesonian Institute - think Smithsonian Institution - is hidden… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 24 March 2013
12:07 PM.As protestors gather and clash with local police at the annual Waihopai protest, organic farmer and teacher Adrian Leason recalls the saga of the 2008 break-in at the Waihopai surveillance base near… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 17 March 2013
12:07 PM.Tenants of Hanson Court in the Wellington suburb of Newtown have had their apartments upgraded by Wellington City Council. But alongside the Housing Upgrade project, the Council is also helping… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 10 March for 2013
12:15 PM.It's art. Tiffany Singh uses rice and lentils in her work, she's dusted her bees-wax effigies with spice, and hung thousands of tiny bells and bamboo wind chimes in parks and art galleries. And for… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 3 March 2013
12:05 PM.Residents of Christchurch's historic riverside community The Avon Loop, gather to walk their streets for the last time. Audio
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Spectrum for 24 February 2013
12:15 PM.Blue lines on Owhiro Bay roads indicate tsunami safe zones. Their faces also painted with blue lines, children of Owhiro Bay primary school and kindergarten sing about coping with an earthquake and… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 17 February 2013
12:05 PM.Every parent wants to see their child grow up and achieve their own independence. For parents of children with a disability this can seem an impossible aspiration. But John and Jane Taylor have found… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 10 February 2013
12:05 PM.Photographer, artist, publisher and environmentalist Craig Potton looks back on a life of adventure and achievement as he reaches 60 alongside a new young wife and a two year old daughter. Audio
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Spectrum for 3 February 2013
12:15 PM.Like-minded folk who travel the north island in housetrucks, vans and buses cluster on a playing field at the back of Waitara central school, north of New Plymouth. Their stalls offer a variety of… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 27 January 2013
12:08 PM.Pre-schoolers Taylor, Samuel, Honor and Brayden may not know how lucky they area... yet. One of their classrooms is their own Wild Woods, complete with trees to climb, a balance log, eels-in-a-stream… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 20 January 2013
12:06 PM.In 1913, 23-year-old Florence Harsant rode on horseback through the gumfields and isolated settlements of New Zealand's far north. Florence was working on behalf of the Women's Temperance Movement… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 13 January 2013
12:15 PM.Marianne Elliott and Amanda Scothern have known each other for 14 years. They're both from New Zealand – but they met in Gaza doing aid work in their 20s. Back then, their idea of dealing with the… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 6 January 2013
12:07 PM.Bill Tilman was lost at sea in 1977 en route to an unclimbed peak on a remote Antarctic Island. It was a typical adventure for the sailor and mountaineer who'd already explored many of the world's… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 30 December 2012
12:07 PM.Ever fancied riding a 50cc scooter across the Southern Alps in the middle of winter? No? Funny that. And yet earlier this year, more than two hundred mad men and women did just that. Spectrum's Justin… Read more Audio