A reconstruction from contemporary accounts and eyewitnesses, made in February 1981 by Jack Perkins, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hawkes Bay earthquake.

The political life and times of Bill Perkins.

A re-creation of the earthquake which devastated the Buller region in June 1929: the destruction, the plight of the refugees, the struggle to break the isolation imposed by the shocks, and the costs in human and financial terms of reconstruction.

Dan Bergin sings of his life as a whaler working out of Great Barrier Island in the 1950s and recalls his work as a deer-culler and bushman.

Dan Bergin sings a tribute to his Irish grandmother as part of his recollections of Wanganui's Dublin Street and the colourful folk who lived there in the 1930s.

Drawn from the 10 part series 'Resounding Radio' tracing the history of radio in New Zealand and broadcast in 2000. From the earliest days sports broadcasters exploited radio's immediacy. Add advances in technology and talkback, and sport becomes a hugely popular radio mainstay.

Drawn from the 10 part series 'Resounding Radio' tracing the history of radio in New Zealand and broadcast in 2000. From the earliest days sports broadcasters exploited radio's immediacy. Add advances in technology and talkback, and sport becomes a hugely popular radio mainstay.

Nancy Sutherland talks about the settlement of French Pass in the Marlborough Sounds where she lived as a child. In conversation with Jack Perkins, she recalls those colourful years in the 1900s with vigour and candour.

Compiled from official sources combined with eye-witness accounts, some previously untapped, this is a graphic reconstruction of New Zealand's most famous manhunt, in 1941.

A colourful portrait of Blackball, past and present. With the great days of coal gone and the mines closed, the inhabitants of this West Coast settlement were told to leave and let the town die. They refused, and today the town not only exists but thrives.