Peter Wells
Morning Report Essentials for Wednesday 12 March 2025
On today's episode, leader of New Zealand First Winston Peters is ramping up his efforts against what he calls "woke left-wing social engineering and diversity targets in the public sector", the… Audio
US markets continue to slide
Markets are continuing to slide in the US after Tuesday's plunge and an announcement of doubled tariffs on Canadian aluminium and steel. Financial Times' Peter Wells spoke to Corin Dann. Audio
Covid-19: Stocks, oil, cryptocurrencies fall
Stocks, oil and cryptocurrencies have fallen overnight in the US. The situation in Ukraine and worries ahead of a US Federal Reserve announcement later this week is being blamed.
The S&P 500 fell 2.4… Audio
Waste plan worries rural Manawatu landowners
Landowners in Manawatu are anxious their plots will be swept up in plans for the country's largest wastewater-to-land treatment system.
So called highly productive land is caught up in the Palmerston… Audio
Peter Wells: 'I have this ridiculous sense of being lucky'
Award winning filmmaker and author Peter Wells died last evening aged 69 after being diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. He joined Jim Mora earlier this month to discuss his life and career as a… Audio
Trump announces US-Canada-Mexico trade deal
NAFTA has been replaced by the the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA. Donald Trump announced the new deal at the White House today after meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin… Audio
Peter Wells - Dear Oliver
Peter Wells is a fiction and non-fiction writer, and a filmmaker. His first book, Dangerous Desires, won the Reed Fiction Award, the NZ Book Award, and PEN Best New Book in Prose in 1992. His memoir… Audio
Peter Wells
The country's inaugural LGBTIQ writers festival is happening early in 2016. Author and filmmaker Peter Wells who co-founded the Auckland writers festival is behind the new festival which is called… Audio
Historian reinvestigates 1872 hanging of Kereopa te Rau
Historian and author Peter Wells reinvestigates the history, facts, and social, political and racial tensions underpinning the 1872 hanging of Kereopa Te Rau for the murder for Carl Volkner. Wells has… Audio
Peter Wells - Award-winning taxidermist
Marlborough-based Peter Wells is an award winning taxidermist who has a passion for preserving rare wildlife. He does a lot of work for the Department of Conservation, and some of the birds he mounts… Audio
Kaitaki ferry breaks mooring
Peter Wells, Interislander Shipping Services manager. Audio
Peter Wells : Colenso's Hungry Heart
Peter Wells has written a new biography on William Colenso, an ill-starred printer who stood up in the tent at Waitangi and told the promoters of the treaty that they were on the wrong track. Audio
Maori Fugitive
When Kereopa Te Rau was captured in Opotiki in 1871 - and later hung for the killing of a missioner - he'd been on the run for seven years. This week his biographer Peter Wells was announced as the… Audio
Kereopa Te Rau
When Kereopa Te Rau was captured in Opotiki in 1871 - and later hung for the killing of a missioner - he'd been on the run for seven years. Peter Wells has been announced as the winner of the 2011… Audio
Summer is Not Over Yet - Cemetery Tour
Peter Wells, film maker and local historian. What's been discovered when one ventures upon the Napier Hill Cemetery Walking Tour? Audio
Feature guest - Peter Wells
Writer and filmaker Peter Wells has just won the country's top non fiction prize to work on a daring re-examination of the life of one of our great colonial forefathers, William Colenso. Audio
