Otago tap dancers performed creditably in Auckland competitions this week, and will be well represented at next weekend's national championships in Invercargill. Bruce Munro delves inside the exacting and sometimes all-consuming world of tap dancing.
Bill Noble is considered one of the most significant figures in New Zealand bookselling. Bruce Munro talks to Mr Noble on the eve of his retirement after 34 years as manager of Dunedin's University Book Shop.
Research published in June suggests a one-in-three chance of a magnitude 8 earthquake on the Alpine Fault sometime in the next 50 years. Bruce Munro spoke to scientists, civil defence staff and couples living in Dunedin, Queenstown and on the Maniototo to create this fictionalised account of how we might be affected if it happens this Wednesday.
The absence of gunfire should not be a luxury.
Thirty-three years after the fall of Camdodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, the country is still on the mend. Bruce Munro discovers Dunedin's substantial, varied and ongoing contribution to rebuilding lives shattered by Cambodia's killing fields.
Otago Museum has been the subject of praise, awards and criticism. Bruce Munro looks at what drives this non-traditional regional museum to punch so far above its weight.
Rutherford Waddell's sermon on "The Sin of Cheapness" transformed working and living conditions for a swathe of working New Zealanders a century ago. Bruce Munro looks at the life and legacy of Dunedin's once renowned, but now largely forgotten preacher.
Youth unemployment is plaguing economies around the world, including our own. Bruce Munro asks why so many teenagers here are disengaged and struggling to find their feet, and what is being done about it.
The first magical night of television in Otago, half a century ago, has had an enduring and powerful legacy. Bruce Munro talks to those who did the seemingly impossible then and those who are continuing to make it happen today.
Trevor Clarke is the face of Brockville's past, and its future.
Long stigmatised as an undesirable place to live, Dunedin's hilltop state housing suburb Brockville is undergoing a quiet revolution. Bruce Munro reports on the fresh winds of change which, say...
When did people first consider themselves New Zealanders? And what were the distinctive factors that contributed to that unique sense of identity? Bruce Munro talks to Dr Ron Palenski about his new book, which claims we were becoming New Zealanders much earlier than previously thought.
After 154 years in the same family, the Finnie farm on Saddle Hill, Dunedin, is facing significant change. Bruce Munro talks to fourth generation farmer Max Finnie about his family's rich heritage on a piece of land settled before Otago's first gold rush.
Male sexual abuse is New Zealand's dirty big secret, say victims and those working with them. Bruce Munro talks to those trying to shatter the silence for the sake of boys being sexually abused today.
Dunedinites who oppose state asset sales are being urged to force the Government to take notice of their feelings on the issue.
Leslie Mitchell is hoping a sluggish real estate market will be no match for his million-dollar views.
Big sky country. It seems that we have it in spades in the South. But, as Bruce Munro discovered, some sky is better than others.
The generation gap is now a gulf - a gulf of dismay. Local Grey Power president Jo Millar has been told the Otago University Students' Association (OUSA) would not march with senior citizens...
Fracking near Dunedin is not on the agenda, the holder of an oil and gas exploration permit stretching from Kaitangata to the Taieri Plain says.
Dunedin students have done something "absolutely great", Perry Reid says.
