WW1

Irene Gardiner shares insightful First World War  TV, film and documentary clips from NZ On Screen. Audio

Anzac Day is just a little over three weeks away, but for 950 New Zealanders, it's next year's Anzac Day that's uppermost in their thinking. Audio

The winners of tickets to attend official centenary commemoration services at Gallipoli next year will have the news by now. Audio

Nineteen hundred people will get an official email today to say they can attend centenary commemorations at Gallipoli on Anzac Day next year. Audio

As we mark 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War, parallels are being drawn between the tensions on the eve of that conflict and the atmosphere and conditions prevailing in parts of the… Audio

For the first time in 32 years, the Royal New Zealand Navy Band has released an album. And while the 30-strong band does not have plans to be on the billboard top 10, going into the studio has been a… Audio

A search is under way to identify the voices of five Gallipoli veterans from a radio documentary recorded in 1969. Audio

Howard Blum, American journalist and author of 'Dark Invasion 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America', the true-life tale of German spying and sabotage on… Audio

Margaret MacMillan is a professor of international history at St Antony's College, Oxford. She discusses her new book 'The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War'. It… Audio

Author of the recently published New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919, historian Damien Fenton on the wherewithal of war. El Alamein was the first battle Damien took a real interest in… Audio

Kate Camp discusses We Will Not Cease by Archibald Baxter, the 1939 autobiographical classic about his experiences as a conscientious objector during the First World War. Audio

An unexpected discovery was made inside the old Reed Building in central Dunedin. It was Soldier John Preston's pay book from the First World War with careful notations of the two shillings and… Audio

A lower North Island iwi leader wants his tribe to design a kaumatua earthquake response plan for each street within his tribal boundary in Porirua, north of Wellington; The new Maori leader of the… Audio

Murray Meikle is a New Zealand dental surgeon who tells the story of the wave of New Zealand talent that gave rise to the revolution in facial reconstruction during and after the first world war. Audio

New Zealand First World War soldier and Victoria Cross recipient Sergeant Donald Forrester Brown is one of 170 foreign troops who will be formally recognised when the Commonwealth marks the 100th… Audio

Luke Smith of the Imperial War Museum in London is looking for New Zealand stories in a massive digital project to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. Audio

People wanting to visit Gallipoli on Anzac Day in 2015 to mark the centenary of the ill-fated First World War campaign will be able to put their names forward from today. Audio

Military historian Damien Fenton on the first singular history of New Zealand's involvement in the Great War - the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's landmark centenary publication, New Zealand and… Audio

Author of 'New Zealand and the First World War' commemorating the centenary of the beginning WW1. Audio

Another group of ANZACs has descended on the Gallipoli peninsula. The archaeologists and historians from New Zealand, Australia and Turkey are there to start work on the next stage of a survey of the… Audio