Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Podcast

Join John O'Hare as he recounts the story of SS Erlangen, a German cargo vessel that escaped Dunedin at the start of the Second World War. This story first featured in the Otago Daily Times as "The Great Escape". Reporter Reads Reporter Reads also feature in Heritage This Month, our regular digital newsletter with the latest heritage news, events, photo essays and more from throughout Aotearoa New...

Join our Senior Communications Advisor John O'Hare as he recounts the remarkable story of HMS New Zealand, a Indefatigable class battlecruiser that took part in the largest naval battle of the First World War. This story first featured in the August-September 2025 issue of New Zealand Memories magazine. Reporter Reads Reporter Reads also feature in Heritage This Month, our regular digital newslett...

The personal recollections of a US Navy sailor who was stationed in Northland during the early years of World War II have revealed the human face of the thousands of US servicemen who trained here prior to fighting in the Pacific. Join our Senior Communications Advisor John O'Hare as he reads his recent article. Reporter Reads Reporter Reads feature in Heritage this Month, our regular digital news...

An edited live recording of the Open Christchurch 2024 event where four panelists discuss what it's like to live in and care for a mid-century home. Hosted in partnership by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga and Te Pūtahi Centre for Architecture & City Making. 

Join Kaitohutohu Whanake Niki Partsch as she reads her story examining conservation work undertaken at St Faith's Anglican Church. St Faith’s is built on land gifted by Ngāti Whakaue at Ōhinemutu on the shore of Lake Rotorua. Its rich Māori interior style is attributed to Frederick Augustus Bennett, the first Māori Bishop of Aotearoa New Zealand. Reporter Reads Reporter Reads feature in Heritage T...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you paid for electricity by the number of appliances you own rather than usage? (It's just as chaotic as you're imagining!) Join Senior Communications Advisor John O'Hare as he reads his article on the wild world of do-it-yourself electricity in 1930s Kerikeri. Reporter Reads Reporter Reads feature in Heritage This Month, our regular digital newsletter w...

Join Outreach Advisor Dr Rosemary Baird as she reads her article on the experience of collecting oral history memories at the Ōtira Tunnel centenary celebrations. Ōtira Tunnel The Ōtira Tunnel was commissioned to link Ōtautahi Christchurch to Māwhera Greymouth in 1907. This 8,529 metre tunnel was the longest in the British Empire at the time of its construction. Five years were allowed for the pro...

Join Senior Communications Advisor John O'Hare as he reads his recent article on the boom-and-bust world of tung nut oil in 1930s Northland. Tung Nuts in Aotearoa New Zealand The economic potential of the tung tree, whose seeds produce an oil that has been used by the Chinese as a natural varnish for 2,500 years, was identified and promoted in parts of the North Island in the 1930s as a sure-fire...

For our 2023 Matariki podcast join Kaitohutohu Whanake Niki Partsch, as she interviews two of our Māori Heritage Team staff. Dean Whiting and Nitika Erueti-Satish reflect on past Matariki celebrations, and share mātauranga, waiata, and their plans for Matariki this year.

Our first HNZPT Matariki podcast episode features interviews with five Māori Heritage New Zealand staff who share their wide-ranging thoughts and experiences about Matariki.  Kaitohutohu Whanake Niki Partsch interviews: Tharron Bloomfield - growing, harvesting and eating taputini; a variety of kumara that were originally cultivated by Māori. Millie Harris - Matariki representing a way of life that...

This week we talk to Dr Glen Hazelton, Director Organisational Development about Saving the Town, a toolkit that highlights successful experiences and case studies from around Aotearoa, New Zealand that illustrate proactive, contemporary approaches to heritage.    Glen provides insight into the toolkit, the case studies behind it and why it is an invaluable resource on how to facilitate and encour...

While in lockdown we have recorded our first episode of the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Podcast to take you behind the scenes of the heritage we care for throughout Aotearoa, New Zealand.  In our first episode we ask some of our staff members from different backgrounds the question, ‘What does heritage mean to you?’ Their answers to this question shows the breadth of what we do as an organ...