War

Kevin Clements grew up in the household of a pacifist and conscientious objector. We find out how that has influenced his life and how he is encouraging peace around the world. Audio

Brian Turner served time on the front line in Iraq and Bosnia. He shares his stories and poems about modern wartime. 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

Jeff Sluka, Craig Bryan, Craig Hoyle and Joseph Le Doux talk to Sonia Sly about modern day threats and fears and how servicemen in combat deal with their fear in the face of war. Audio

New Zealand-born physicist Sean Gourley on the mathematical patterns that underly war, global intelligence, and his roles as a political advisor to the Iraqi government, the UN and the Pentagon. Audio

This week we hear from professor Noel Sharkey about the development of fully autonomous drones, blogger Yousef Aljamal about life under the drones in the Gaza strip, and defence analyst Paul Buchanan… Audio

Jock Philips is one of New Zealand's leading historians. When he was a boy, he dreamed of becoming a war hero, though that dream quickly evaporated when he was a cadet at high school. When he finally… Audio

Alison Parr talks to Chris about her interviews with soldiers, airmen, nurses and members of the NZ Women's Auxiliary Corps about life in the enemy territory between 1946 and 1948 - and how wartime… Audio

Contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine, whose new book is The Operators: the Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan. He will be a guest at the 2012 Auckland Writers… Audio

In Ideas today we're taking a look at the privatization of war. Military contracting, or outsourcing, is a 100 billion dollar industry. Audio

London-born Nigerian spoken-word artist Bohemian Thanni is living in Wellington where he's found kindred musical souls to help him realise his first album 'Magnificent Dyslexic', which deals with… Audio

Now living in Auckland, sisters Hana Schofield and Atka Reid were caught up in 1992 in the middle of the civil war which tore Yugoslavia apart. Then aged twelve, Hana boards one of the last UN… Audio

Professor of American History, Emeritus, at the University of Princeton with his perspectives on the Civil War in the now United States. Audio

Marcus Harvey reviews Battlefields of the New Zealand Wars by David Green. Published by Penguin. Audio

In conversation with Sean Plunket, journalist and human rights consultant Michael Otterman explores the recent history of Iraq. Highly critical of what the USA has achieved since George W. Bush's… Audio

The tragic death of Lieutenant Timothy O'Donnell earlier this week has brought home to New Zealanders just how deadly the Taliban's roadside bombing campaign has become. We talk to Victoria University… Audio

Ideas looks at the changing nature of warfare in the 21st century. Audio

This week we look at the 60th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. Audio