Current Projects

Kia Ora Ni Hao
Kia Ora Ni Hao Kia Ora Ni Hao was repeated on Prime time on Maori television in December and January. The complete series is now available on DVD. Six Maori speaking students report on their three week stay in Beijing in their own language.

NZ Identity and Culture

Made In Taiwan	The James Gang Rides Again	Billy T: A Daughter's Story	It Isn't Easy Being Green
Two Polynesian broadcasters use their own DNA to retrace the path through the Pacific that their voyaging ancestors followed from Asia. Click here to see a promotional video for this show (45 minutes)	New Zealand’s best-loved comedian and entertainer Billy T James tells the story of his heart transplant and recovery.	The teenager who grew up as Billy T’s daughter tells his extraordinary story through her eyes Billy’s friends and private and public archives. (45 minutes)	How NZ was the first country on earth to have a green political party. With Andy Anderson and Ilona Rogers. (45 minutes)
Out of the Dark	Kiwi Honours	Dame Cath Moves Up	Kia Ora Bonjour
How the new sciences of DNA and criminal profiling tracked down New Zealand’s most notorious rapist Joseph Thompson. (50 minutes)	Charismatic former Prime Minister David Lange follows a Queen’s Birthday honours list to bring an insider’s look at how our honours system evolved.	The story of how the daughter of a Waikato dairy farmer became the first female Governor General of New Zealand. (45 minutes)	Veteran Maori entertainer Howard Morrison travels to Paris to celebrate the French bicentenary and explore the links with New Zealand. (2 x 45 minutes)

History Programmes

Journey to Arras	Nuclear Reaction	The Game Of Our Lives	Great NZ River Journeys
A young NZ woman retraces the adventures of her grandfather who helped created an underground city in caves beneath a town in northern France during World War One. (50 minutes)	How within the space of fifty years New Zealand transformed itself from one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the atom bomb in to a nuclear-free zone. (50 minutes)	This four–part series shows how rugby has mirrored NZ social history from the first club in Nelson College in the 1870, to the 1981 tour, the 1995 World Cup, and the dawn of the professional code. (4 x 50 minutes)	A three-part series that travels the Waikato, Wanganui and Clutha rivers with presenters Linda Topp, Sam Hunt and Jon Gadsby. (3 x 45 minutes)
Motor Mania	The Mystery Of North Head	Reaching For The Skies	Nga Tohu Signatures (through Legal Services Agency)
A two-part series celebrating New Zealand’s first 100 years of motoring, presented by Rima Te Wiata. (2 x 50 minutes)	The hunt for the remains of the very first Boeing Aircraft, which many believe still lies beneath Auckland’s North Head. (45 minutes)	A locally-made episode of the international BBC series, tracing the story of aviation in New Zealand from Richard Pearse to the jumbo jet. (50 minutes)	A drama tracing the story of the Treaty of Waitangi from 1839 to the present day through the experiences of two families, one Maori, the other Pakeha. (50 minutes)
Becoming New Zealand
A fifty-minute radio documentary first broadcast on Waitangi Day 2006 that looks at the people and the events that determined the route NZ followed on our journey towards nationhood.

Pacific

Our Small World	Lost & Found	Vanua
An intimate portrait of life on the tiny Pacific atoll of Tokelau, where there is no airstrip no harbour, or even a safe anchorage. (50 minutes)	From Tahiti, acclaimed cinema director David Lean tells how he found he discovered one of Captain Cook’s anchors. (40 minutes)	Fiji High Chief and Prime Minister Ratu Mara shows how archaeology throws new light on the settlement of his island home of Lakeba. (23 minutes)