New Zealand Listener

Members of the jury visit Endeavour Inlet during Scott Watson's trial.

From the Listener archive: Features

January 5-11 2008 Vol 212 No 3530

• Cover Murder, they said by Joanne Black
  Ten years have passed since the nation was gripped by the disappearance of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope from Endeavour Inlet in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 1998. As questions are raised publicly about whether Scott Watson really did murder them, two men who know the case inside out have no doubt at all that the right man is behind bars.

• Feature The man who went to see Tolstoy by Matt Nippert
  The extraordinary story of the Auckland minister’s son who became the world’s most prolific linguist – and an eyewitness of the Russian Revolution.

• Feature - Upfront Dave Dobbyn – th’ Dudes by Nick Bollinger
  When th’ Dudes called it a day in 1980, they left two permanent contributions to Kiwi culture: a clutch of classic pop-rock singles – “Be Mine Tonight”, “Right First Time” “Bliss”, “Walking in Light” – and Dave Dobbyn. Last year, Dobbyn reunited with the other four original Dudes for the first time in 26 years to play 10 gigs. This summer, they are doing it again, playing seven shows at various holiday spots around the New Zealand coastline.

• History You want ice with that? by Denis Welch
  IT WAS ALL MEANT TO HAPPEN in a decorous, gentlemanly, oh-so-English way...

• Travel / Africa The guide by Dave Hansford
  Aficionados lament the passing of the old Africa, but sadly, some things endure.

• Travel / Cook Islands Island time by Dean Parker
  In the Cook Islands, nothing is as scary – or as pretty – as it seems.

• Travel / Mexico Hotel Hermosa by Jane Westaway
  Pineapple, shrimp and sandflies in a scruffy corner of Mexico.

• Food Easy does it by Martin Bosley
  Who wants to be making complicated food when you’re in a holiday mood? The recipes on these pages provide a summer toolbox of flavours, accompaniments and suggestions to stimulate your own ideas.