Kennedy Warne
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy has his eyes on the Pacific, and the endeavours of two Australians who have been bitten by the rowing bug across the great ocean. He'll also look at the growing concern over whether island… Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne : From mountain to sea
Kennedy discusses about the historic decision to restore the mana of Mt Taranaki by dropping the name "Egmont" from the mountain and its associated national park and recognising the entirety of the… Audio, Gallery
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne: Urban green spaces
Kennedy talks about the new report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment into urban green spaces, and how they're being threatened by the need for housing. He'll talk about the… Audio
Off the beaten track: Seaweek and the solace of wild places
Outdoorsman Kennedy Warne looks at Seaweek, a country-wide programme held annually in New Zealand which involves beach clean-ups, community snorkelling days, film screenings, lecturers and - in… Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy joins the show from Urupukapuka in the Bay of Islands. He talks to Susie Ferguson about the overwhelming sense of Maori history in the area and also about how the popular understanding of the… Audio, Gallery
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy brings us news from Tongareva/Penrhyn Atoll, the northernmost of the Cook Islands, where solo Pacific rower Tom Robinson is staying until the summer cyclone season passes and he can recommence… Audio, Gallery
Kennedy Warne joins the show from the Auckland Islands
He is on board a National Geographic expedition cruise to the sub Antarctic islands. Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy talks about tuke, the rock wren, which has been declared Bird of the Year. This endangered alpine bird is one of the two remaining species of New Zealand wren. Five other species have gone… Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy joins Kathryn from the Southern Ocean - he's midway through a National Geographic expedition cruise, taking a loop from Ushuaia to Falkland Islands to South Georgia to Antarctic Peninsula and… Audio, Gallery
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy Warne highlights the efforts of a young Australian attempting to row solo across the Pacific. Tom Robinson has been rowing for 4 months, having left Peru on 1 July. The 23 year old is almost… Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy has an update on incoming flights of bar-tailed godwits, arriving on our shores from Alaska.
He also explores a remarkable new decision from the Supreme Court on the place of tikanga in New… Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy talks to Kathryn about godwits which are currently en route to New Zealand from Alaska, the gannets of Cape Kidnappers and one of the most ancient Gondwanan forests: the Daintree rainforest. Audio, Gallery
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy takes us off the beaten track to Bruny Island, off the coast of Hobart, and returns to Uluru, where climbing of the sacred rock ceased in 2019, but tourism is bigger than ever. Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy talks to Kathryn about the gravitational attraction of ice, and why the Nepalese government is shifting Everest Base Camp. Kennedy also mentions a recent visit to a prolific stand of kauri… Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy has been travelling in Iceland and Greenland where he says the weather has been unseasonably warm. It's estimated that the Greenland ice cap has lost the equivalent of 72 million Olympic… Audio, Gallery
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy is heading well off the beaten track to the land of the midnight sun. In a few days he joins a National Geographic voyage with French cruising company Ponant, exploring the western coast of… Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
It's the the annual Garden Bird Survey this week, where the public is invited to count birds in their backyard or local park or reserve for an hour any time between now and Sunday and report the… Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne - godwit migration
Kennedy looks at the incredible migratory journeys of godwits from New Zealand to Alaska, which are happening at the moment, and which inspired a piece of choral music in praise of the birds. Also the… Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy Warne visits the Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangarei, initiated in 1993 and which finally opened in February this year. Austrian-born Friedensreich Hundertwasser lived the last 30 years of… Audio, Gallery
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne and kereru
Kennedy has the story of "Lucky," a kereru chick that is being raised by its parents on photographer Rod Morris's property in Broad Bay, on the Otago Peninsula. He also talks to Kathryn about a kereru… Audio, Gallery