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New Zealand String Quartet, Voices  New… Audio

Glyn Harper is a military historian and author who has collected and read hundreds of letters sent home by New Zealand soldiers at Gallipoli.. His book Jim's Letters is for children, and based on… Audio

New Zealand's contribution to building mines in the trenches of the First World War is being brought to life in Nelson this weekend. Audio

Preparations are underway at Gallipoli for the Anzac Day services to be held there. Audio

ANZAC day is coming up at the end of the week and more than sixty years ago, Lyttleton musician and photographer Jae Renaut attended his first dawn parade as a boy of seven. He's now recorded a song… Audio

Author of the recently-published New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919, historian Damien Fenton on the wherewithal of war - the Japanese invasion scare of 1942. Audio

Onn-hundred years on from the beginning of World War I, Australian playwright and director, Wesley Enoch talks to us about uncovering the untold story of the aboriginal soldiers of World War 1, known… Audio

What happened at Gallipoli is familiar to New Zealanders, but some aspects of the story have been challenged by a leading military historian. Glyn Harper is a professor of war studies at Massey… Audio

Nick Grant discusses music TV, Prime's "James Nesbitt in New Zealand", and a drama about New Zealand conscientious objectors during WW1, "Field Punishment No.1". Audio

University of Otago political historian A. Prof Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the globe, developments that lead to the First World War, as Britain ceased to be the world's… Audio

Irene Gardiner shares insightful First World War  TV, film and documentary clips from NZ On Screen. Audio

Anzac Day is just a little over three weeks away, but for 950 New Zealanders, it's next year's Anzac Day that's uppermost in their thinking. Audio

The winners of tickets to attend official centenary commemoration services at Gallipoli next year will have the news by now. Audio

Nineteen hundred people will get an official email today to say they can attend centenary commemorations at Gallipoli on Anzac Day next year. Audio

As we mark 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War, parallels are being drawn between the tensions on the eve of that conflict and the atmosphere and conditions prevailing in parts of the… Audio

For the first time in 32 years, the Royal New Zealand Navy Band has released an album. And while the 30-strong band does not have plans to be on the billboard top 10, going into the studio has been a… Audio

A search is under way to identify the voices of five Gallipoli veterans from a radio documentary recorded in 1969. Audio

Howard Blum, American journalist and author of 'Dark Invasion 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America', the true-life tale of German spying and sabotage on… Audio

Margaret MacMillan is a professor of international history at St Antony's College, Oxford. She discusses her new book 'The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War'. It… Audio