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Recent items from Summer Times
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Whanganui Opera Week
11:54 AM.The Whanganui Opera Week is in full swing at the Royal Theatre. We check in with Bev Kirkwood to see how it's all going. Read more Audio
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Wild Felt
11:30 AM.Next in our series on Kiwis keeping age old crafts alive - Simone Bensdorp from Christchurch who creates a myriad of colourful creations out of Felt. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Ethno NZ Festival
11:24 AM.Ethno New Zealand is an artistic residency of traditional, folk, and world music that gathers musicians from New Zealand and the rest of the world for 10 days of collaborative workshops. Read more Audio
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Indira Chowdhury
11:05 AM.Collecting and preserving the oral histories of remote Indian communities and the craftspeople whose ways of life are changing, is the mission of Dr Indira Chowdhury. Read more Audio
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Hidden gems of 2018 NZ music
10:40 AM.Gareth Shute wrote an excellent piece late last year about unsung gems of 2018 in New Zealand music. We asked him in to spin some of these tunes for us and talk about what's going on in the kiwi… Read more Audio
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Kerikeri pear tree still going strong at the ripe old age of 200
10:35 AM.New Zealand's oldest exotic tree – a Williams pear tree near Kerikeri – enters its third century this year. When the Māori warrior chief Hongi Hika granted European missionaries some land on the site… Read more Audio
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Kapiti lizards research
10:10 AM.A lizard garden tucked away amidst Kapiti coast regenerating bush is proving a hit with the intended residents, and it's also been a great way of getting the community involved in conservation… Read more Audio
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Otago in 2019
9:50 AM.RNZ's Tim Brown looks ahead to a year in Otago and Southland as the regions grapple with growth and the problems that can come with it. Read more Audio
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Waimangaroa's Firefighting Family
9:40 AM.We continue our series on volunteering with Carmen Greenland and her aunt Lynn Brooks, two members of a family that has a long involvement with the Waimangaroa Fire Station on the South Island's West… Read more Audio, Gallery
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100 Objects
9:30 AM.Jock Phillips is a free-lance writer who lives in Wellington, and is one of the country's most well-known historians. He's now in the early stages of an new project called A History of New Zealand in… Read more Audio
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LANDSAR: Ian Newman
9:20 AM.Ian Newman is the LANDSAR (Land search and rescue) Group Support Officer for the Upper North Island - in the second of our series of LANDSAR volunteers he talks about unforgettable searches, and how… Read more Audio
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Casting the net beyond NZ's top five favourite fish
9:10 AM.New Zealanders' favourite fish to eat are salmon, snapper, tarakihi, gurnard and hoki. Fishing company GM Justine Powell wants people to branch out by plating up some mirror dory, mackerel, kahawai or… Read more Video, Audio
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Live Tennis - Clay Wilson
11:55 AM.It's bang smack in the middle of New Zealand's tennis season! The ASB Classic just finished yesterday, and the ATP Auckland Open is about to start at midday today We're joined now by RNZ Sport's Clay… Read more Audio
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Bending with the willow
11:30 AM.Mike Lillian makes his living from basket making and repair. He's based in Kakanui south of Oamaru and tells us about the joys and challenges of working with his basket material of choice - willow. Audio
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Summer reading: the author
11:20 AM.How do we read when we're on holiday? And do authors target summer readers? Wellington based author Catherine Robertson has a new novel called What You Wish For coming out on the 8th of January and… Read more Audio
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Indigenous archaeology
11:05 AM.Makere Rika-Heke, Pouarahi Mid Northern, Heritage New Zealand is a pre-eminent indigenous archaeologist and a strong advocate for indigenous archaeology who's worked on sites in NZ and Australia, as… Read more Audio
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UltrasouNZ
10:37 AM.UltrasouNZ is in the midst of rehearsals but Joe Blossom and Vanessa Stacey got special permission to join us in the Wellington studio Read more Audio
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Mana Island
10:20 AM.Over the summer we're going to hear from volunteers from around the country who're contributing their expertise and time in all kinds of ways to all manner of organisations. Today's story also brings… Read more Audio
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Kaicycle
10:05 AM.Did you know that in Wellington alone, the council collects more than 70-thousand tonnes of organic waste every year? Lydia Marbett is the founder of Kaicycle - a Wellington-based collection business… Read more Audio
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Responsible travel writing
9:49 AM.New Zealand writer Mary Jane Walker often travels to danger zones, alone. She wants to share her experiences with others, but says she's been struggling with how she can I write responsibly about… Read more Audio
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Volunteering with LANDSAR
9:20 AM.Today we start a five part series with Landsar volunteers. Without them so many lives would have been lost when people venture into our often treacherous and unpredictable terrain that can catch out… Read more Audio
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VR and education
9:05 AM.How is virtual reality technology changing the way educators work? Scott Cardwell is the co-founder and chief executive of ImmerseMe and is here to fill us in on the opportunities and pitfalls of this… Read more Audio
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100 objects for 7 January 2019
8:45 AM.Our history of New Zealand objects is coming along nicely but we still need your input! Our list stands at 25 and ranges from the humble woolen jersey to a coal range. You can help us by sending your… Read more Audio
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Tuwharetoa Marae Sports Challenge 2019
11:53 AM.We check in with one of the organisers of the Tuwharetoa Marae Sports Challenge on on how the first day of the challenge is going. Read more Audio
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Bowled away
11:35 AM.On Summer Times we've challenged ourselves to try something new. Lynn Freeman went down to the Wilton Bowling club in Wellington to learn the finer points of the art. Read more Audio, Gallery