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Eyewitness - Life for a Burmese child refugee
3:35 PM.Aung San Suu Kyi's recent historic democratic victory in the Myanmar elections seems to have brought positive change for the country but for a whole generation of former child refugees, life was… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Cobwebs and Colonials : Sarah Mathew and the Founding of Auckland
2:12 PM.The city of Auckland was founded in 1840 in a mix of hope and compromise and the occasion was marked with a suitably pompous ceremony. Just one eyewitness account remains from that day, and it was… Read more Audio
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Speaking of Evil - Cambodian women survive Pol Pot
3:35 PM.Imagine having to beg for your child's life with nothing but a couple of cigarettes as a bribe. Thirty years after their trauma, a group of 10 Cambodian New Zealand women are only now able to tell… Read more Audio
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Medic Recalls London Bombings 12-years On
2:20 PM.A day of terror on the London Underground. The bombs go off 12 years ago. Read more Video, Audio
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English teacher by day, life saver by night
3:35 PM.Mark Cunningham – known as Marko to the locals in Thailand – is a Kiwi from Upper Hutt. Marko survived the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004 and joined local volunteers to collect bodies. These days Marko is… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Tony Forster, an “accidental” Berliner
2:20 PM.Eyewitness producer Lisa Thompson hears the serendipitous story of Tony Forster; a New Zealander who was one of the first to cross through Checkpoint Charlie the night the Berlin Wall started coming… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery
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Still on Top.
2:20 PM.In August 1998, the Auckland Art Gallery was the scene of this country's first major art theft. An armed man burst in, threatening visitors and assaulting a security guard before making off with the… Read more Audio
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One Woman's Miracle - Burundi Remembered
5:40 PM.Two artists share their stories of the personal connections and memories they have of their homes through the exhibition Something felt, something shared. What are the connections and relationships… Read more Audio
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Changi Prison Survivor
3:35 PM.Roland de Bruyne is an elderly Malaysian Aucklander and a survivor of the infamous Changi Prison during the Japanese occupation of Singapore during WW2. Last year his children discovered letters and… Read more Audio
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New Zealand’s ‘darkest day’ in test cricket - extended version
2:21 PM.Archived audio courtesy of The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound - Contains commentary of New Zealand's first-ever cricket test victory: against the West Indies in Auckland on 13 March… Read more Audio
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New Zealand’s darkest day in test cricket
2:20 PM.Archived audio courtesy of The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound - Contains commentary of New Zealand's first-ever cricket test victory: against the West Indies in Auckland on 13 March… Read more Audio
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Red Cross Local Legend - Margaret Rankine
2:30 PM.Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets Red Cross and local legend Margaret Rankin. An Eastbourne resident, Margaret will never forget one of the worst storms ever to hit our coasts. Witnessing the sinking of the… Read more Audio
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Eyewitness: Whale Tales
3:30 PM.It's nearly 50 years since Marlborough whalers J. A. Perano and Company harpooned their last whale in New Zealand waters. Peter Perano reflects on what it was like to be a third generation whaler… Read more Audio
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Growing Roots Chinese Refuge
3:30 PM.Seventy five years ago several hundred Chinese women and children arrived in New Zealand, fleeing the Japanese invasion of China. These were the wives and children of the Chinese men already here. The… Read more Audio
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The Siege of Sarajevo
3:30 PM.In 1993 Tony Gardner was just another Kiwi on his OE when a friend talked him into a dangerous plan - transporting medical supplies into the besieged city of Sarajevo. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Facing Down the Bomb - a protest at Mururoa 1973
3:30 PM.In 1973, at just 19 years of age, Anna Horne sailed with three others to Mururoa to oppose nuclear testing by France. But rather than witnessing a bomb being detonated, she watched the skipper being… Read more Audio
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The 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera
3:30 PM.Willy Bennett and Roger Delamere Dansey recall the horrifying night of 10 June 1886, when the eruption of Mount Tarawera killed up to 150 people and destroyed many settlements. Read more Audio
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Eyewitness: The 1999 East Timor Independence Referendum
3:30 PM.Tim Howard recalls the violence and the hope that surrounded the 1999 East Timor referendum on independence from Indonesia Audio
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Eyewitness: The 1994 South Africa General Elections
2:20 PM.Wellington-based Beth Houston shares her views on apartheid and recalls her experience as an election observer at the 1994 General Elections. Audio