Winter soups 1994
Lois Daish had some "souper smoothies" for the cold nights, and days, ahead. [more]
From Our Archive
Life in NZ: February 1978
She finds New Zealand men "more appreciative" than the English, and admires walk-shorts. "It took me hours to get through customs," she said. "I had never seen men's knees in such abundance." Otago Daily Times 27/1/78
Wellington Central MP Ken Comber asked only one question last year, doubling his total since... [more]
From Our Archive: Days of Rage 1981
August 1981, and Tony Reid and Phil Gifford reporting from the Springbok tour find a country "unrecognisably changed, angrily divided and threateningly alien". [more]
Winter soups 1994
Lois Daish had some "souper smoothies" for the cold nights, and days, ahead. [more]
From Our Archive: tight times 1991
Unemployment was up, benefits were down and we had advice for the living cheaply. [more]
Hot chocolate 1995
In her food column, Lois Daish had some warming drinks for the winter months ahead. [more]
Rangitikei byelection 1978
The Listener's Politics columnist Tom Scott covers the Rangitikei byelection, and a cover story about the last of the domestic servants. [more]
Royal weddings 1947 and 1981
In 1947, the world listened; by 1981, the BBC and ITV were fighting over television coverage. [more]
Anzac biscuits 1994-2000
Lois Daish's investigations into the history of the Anzac biscuit revealed the earliest published recipe, and a modern update. [more]
Easter road carnage warning, 1961
March 30, 1961, and a reminder to drive carefully during the upcoming holiday weekend, plus a new World War II naval history series was starting on Channel 2. [more]
Twenty years of school bullies
1991, and school bullying was on the cover. Something else that doesn't change: a major new natural history series presented by David Attenborough was about to start. [more]
Angel Mine 1978
In a review titled "Suburban banality", Listener film critic Stephen Ballantyne gave David Blyth's debut feature one star. [more]
Yes, we have some bananas
In February 1993, Listener deputy editor Denis Welch went bananas over bananas and G-code devices were the latest thing. [more]
Think Tamaki
1988, and in an occasional series in which politicians looked homewards, Sir Robert Muldoon, the Honourable Member for Tamaki, looked over the great sprawl of Auckland. Elsewhere, Bruce Ansley wrote about merchant banker Michael Fay, and his ambition to win the America's Cup. [more]