Manawatu

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University, whose first novel, The Naturalist, is based on the life of Dr Ernst Dieffenbach, the German naturalist who voyaged to New Zealand in 1839. Audio

Engineer and author who lives in Dunsandel, discussing tide and wave energy. Audio

Whaikōrero by the Rev. Father James Durining at the opening of the Aotea Meeting House at Mākirikiri, Dannevirke, 1967. Audio

Palmerston North-based musician who has been working with taonga puoro instruments since 2001, after many years in the independent and noise music scenes. Audio

Entrepreneur behind the long-running underground New Zealand music entity A Low Hum, which has involved him putting out magazines, CDs, DVDs vinyl and cassette releases, touring bands around the… Audio

Rapper Sam Hansen, a.k.a. PNC, wears his hometown on his sleeve, having taken his acronymic alias from 'Palmerston North City'. It was from Palmy that a young Hansen attracted the attention of Breakin… Audio

Internationally-recognised photographer Laurence Aberhart discusses the inspiration behind his new book Anzac, which documents war memorials from New Zealand and Australia. Audio

Peter Fowler explores the push to build irrigation dams. Audio

Rob Thorne's background includes making experimental and guitar music through the 90s in Palmerston North, but now the Ngati Tumutumu man is focused on playing Taonga Puoro, Maori Instruments. He's… Audio

Tim and Kate Gibbs from Te Horo Foods near Otaki are making thousands of jars of jam every day! Then jammy science with Dr Bridget Stocker and Dr Mattie Timmer of Victoria University of Wellington. Audio

Stephen Berg has been with this museum in Palmerston North for five years. Audio

It only happens four times a year, in a month with a fifth Sunday, the gates of the historic Old Gorge Cemetery in Woodville swing open for special tours with guides who know the stories behind the… Audio

Last year we spoke with one of the volunteers at the The Fantasy Cave in Dannevirke, which was under threat of closing down. Well it did close down, for two weeks, but now a sponsor has saved the… Audio

In the 1980s, suffering from job losses and a rural economic downturn, the small town of Taihape rebranded itself as the world's gumboot capital. Audio

Papaitonga is the name that Sir Walter Buller gave to his country estate. It was his site for a 'grand theatre' of Maori artefacts, and also the place where the philosophy of modern conservation was… Audio

Diana and Grant Baird grow peacharines on their sheep and beef farm in the Kawhatau Valley. The frosts are legendary, and the summers are hot. Audio

Peter Henderson has been paying the rates on land in Hunterville that isn't even his, in the hopes that descendants of the original owner will someday come forward and claim it. The land was issued by… Audio

Dan Steele is an eco farmer, environmentalist, tourism operator and bush aficionado. He farms over 5,000 acres in a remote area of the Ruapehu District, an area that was once given by the Government… Audio

Former Hamilton Senior Sergeant Bruce Lyon has a new beat. He chucked in his 36 year career with the New Zealand Police to establish the International Police Museum in Dannevirke. Audio

Dannevirke, Norsewood, Berlins: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's dictionary of New Zealand place names. Audio