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Veterans Minister Meka Whaitiri from Gallipoli
8:15 AM.Veterans Minister Meka Whaitiri is leading the New Zealand delegation at the Anzac commemorations at Gallipoli in Turkey. It's the first official New Zealand delegation to attend since 2019. Audio
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Jude Dobson talks with a remarkable group of this country’s WWII aviators
5:00 AM.Jude Dobson talks to aviators from WWII about their experiences of wartime. Read more Audio
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Paris Peace Conference 100 years on
10:10 AM.For six months Paris in 1919 was the capital of the world,” said Professor Margaret Macmillan in her book The Peacemakers. Read more Audio
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For King and Other Countries
9:45 AM.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… Read more Audio, Gallery
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The Pioneer Battalion in WW1
9:30 AM.At the beginning of the First World War maori involvement in the NZ military forces was limited and there was robust debate about whether maori should serve in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Read more Audio, Gallery
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With Them Through Hell
9:05 AM.The First World War caused the largest global mobilisation of people the world had ever seen and for New Zealanders the distance traveled was especially significant. But it wasn't just soldiers that… Read more Audio, Gallery
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The iron harvest of Passchendaele
8:45 AM.While the First World War can feel like a long way away from our current lives - the physical legacy of the Western Front remains very present. Charlotte Descamps lived in the Ypres Salient - the… Read more Audio
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Teaching difficult histories
8:10 AM.Associate Professor Joanna Kidman is a sociologist at Victoria University and she's teamed up with New Zealand historian Dr Vincent O'Malley for a new special project to explore selective memory in… Read more Audio
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ANZAC Dawn Service 2019
6:00 AM.Phillipa Tolley commentates the ANZAC Day Dawn service live from Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington. Audio
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Sarah Johnston
10:50 AM.Sarah Johnston from Nga Taonga Sound & Vision discusses archival audio clips heard throughout the programme, and her work over the past four years accessing First World War related material. Thank you… Read more Audio
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Alex Calder
10:32 AM.Alex Calder, an associate professor of English at the University of Auckland, edited for re-publication the classic 1963 memoir by Alexander Aitken,Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New… Read more Audio
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Christopher Pugsley
10:07 AM.The author of many books on New Zealand's military history, Christopher Pugsley also has a deep interest in the country's early film heritage. How the moving camera captured the experience of the NZEF… Read more Audio
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Megan Hutching
9:35 AM.Megan Hutching is an Auckland-based freelance historian. Oral history is central to her work: in the early 2000s for the Ministry of Culture & Heritage she interviewed Second World War veterans for a… Read more Audio
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'The Raw Men' by Rore Hapipi (Rowley Habib)
9:29 AM.The poem at 9.30am was 'The Raw Men' by Rore Hapipi (Rowley Habib), recorded at Te Tira Hou Marae in Panmure, Auckland, on 4 April 1975 at a reunion of ex-servicemen of 'B' Company, of the 28 Maori… Read more Audio
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Jane Tolerton
9:06 AM.Jane Tolerton is a Wellington historian who has often written about the First World War. Her latest book is Make Her Praises Heard Afar: the Hidden History of New Zealand in World War One (Booklovers… Read more Audio
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Adam Claasen
8:35 AM.Adam Claasen is a senior lecturer in history at Massey University's Albany campus. His book Fearless: the extraordinary untold story of New Zealand's Great War airmen is a history of the 850 New… Read more Audio
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Kate Hunter
8:09 AM.Kate Hunter is an associate professor at Victoria University of Wellington, where she is also the director of the Stout Research for New Zealand Studies. Among the courses she teaches is a social… Read more Audio
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New Zealand music in times of conflict
7:10 AM.Music historian and author Chris Bourke discusses New Zealand music in times of conflict. Read more Audio
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Anzac Day 2017 National Commemoration Service
10:58 AM.From the Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in central Wellington presented by Philippa Tolley. Audio
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Branigan Kā
10:50 AM.Branigan Kā is a Māori musician and a radio host for Te Upoko o te Ika in Wellington. He shares his stories and sing a waiata to conclude the studio-based segment of Anzac Day Morning on RNZ National.
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Ron Mark - Repatriating the fallen
10:35 AM.There has been some news recently about 33 New Zealanders who died in the Malayan, Korea, and Vietnam wars. After a long campaign, members of the fallen soldier's families will finally have their… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Kingi Taurua - The Cold War
10:20 AM.Between the late 1950s and early 1970s New Zealanders fought in Korea, Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam. These wars were part of the Cold War, a long drawn out conflict between Western nations and Communist… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Dr Monty Soutar - The Maori Battalion
10:06 AM.The 28th Battalion of the Second World War, better known as the Maori Battalion, had a formidable reputation as one of the finest fighting forces but it came at a great cost: of the 3600 soldiers, 660… Read more Audio
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Peter Stanley - The First Wars of Australia
9:25 AM.Before World War One, New Zealand was involved in conflicts here at home. The New Zealand Wars were battles in the 19th century between Maori allies and colonial troops. The wars began in the North… Read more Audio
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Rahui Papa - Waikato Land Wars
9:10 AM.The memory of the Land Wars and confiscations were too fresh for Waikato and Ngati Maniapoto iwi who suffered many losses of life, including women and children. So when it came to enlisting in the… Read more Audio
