Childhood
Memories of Early Years - Episode 7
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui. Read by Peter Vere-Jones from the book Memories of Early… Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 6
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui. Read by Peter Vere-Jones from the book Memories of Early… Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 5
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui. Read by Peter Vere-Jones from the book Memories of Early… Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 4
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui. Read by Peter Vere-Jones from the book Memories of Early… Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 3
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui. Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 2
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui Audio
Memories of Early Years - Episode 1
Composer Douglas Lilburn's evocative recollections of his childhood, first on a remote farm in the Turakina Valley, and then in Whanganui. Audio
David Slack - Bullrush
You don't need a referee, you don't need a whistle, and you don't need a ball. It's dangerous, it's exciting, and often it's been banned - it's Bullrush. David Slack has written a book about this… Audio
The Silences
Growing up in a house of secrets: memories and mementoes of a childhood to understand the unhappiness of her parents, with Sydney-based filmmaker Margot Nash on her personal essay compilation… Audio
What I do is build an unreal house and I fill it with real storms
An intensely personal memoir by one of the country's leading writers of fantasy, exploring the roots of her interest in alternative reality, and intertwining her own story, and that of her family into… Audio
Boldly going where your ancestors have already been - what the rediscovery of traditional navigation means
Explorer Kevin Biggar, astrophysicist Prof. Richard Easther, designer Kate Sylvester and celestial navigator Jack Thatcher talk with Jesse Mulligan. Audio
2014 Janet Frame Lecture by Gavin Bishop
In the 2014 Janet Frame Memorial Lecture, Gavin Bishop explores memories from his own childhood, and talks about the business of writing and drawing for children. Audio
Museum Visit: Museum of Childhood
We pay a virtual visit to one of New Zealand's museums - the Museum of Childhood in Masterton with its founder Diana Stidolph. Audio
Douglas - Landscape of a New Zealand Composer - Episode 1
In Search of a Tradition introduces many of the threads which are woven throughout the series, including images of Douglas's childhood from his unpublished notes for Memories of Early Years - a… Audio
