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Heritage Matters

by Otago Access Radio

The programme takes a look at what makes Dunedin the nation's heritage capital. The wonderful stock of historic buildings will be explored, as well as early European settlement, Maori life in past centuries and tales of gold. A new episode airs every second Monday at mid-day, with replays on Sundays at 7pm. (Thanks to the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture at the University of Otago).

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  1. 05-10-2026 - Gold Fields Conman, Taieri Airfield, Cat Loving Soldier and Arawata Bill

    In this programme Bill Southworth tells us about a con man on the gold fields, we discover the remnant of an important part of the war effort at the Taieri Airfield, Gregor has a story of a cat loving soldier and we hear about a famous bushman identity.

  2. 04-09-2026 - First Frozen Meat ships, Early Railway Tunnels and Ashers Lane part 2

    This week Bill Southworth looks at the tragic cost to ships crews of the early frozen meat industry, Gregor Campbell tells us about the problems with a Railway Tunnel near Port Chalmers and we explore one of the worst 19th Century areas of Dunedin.

  3. 03-08-2026 - Food Riots, Immigrant Ships and Erik Olssen

    In this programme Gregor Campbell tells us about a food riot in Dunedin during the Great Depression, Bill Southworth reports on two immigrant ships that presented problems for the new colony and we recall a remarkable achievement of a Professor Erik Olssen.

  4. 06-07-2026 - Plane Crash, First Mental Hospital, Famous Early shopping Arcade and Security Building History

    In This week's programme Gregor Campbell has a scoop on the story behind a plane crash, Bill Southworth has been looking at Dunedin's first mental hospitals, Gregor explores a famous early shopping arcade and Alison Breese tells us a bit of history about Heritage NZ listing of the Security…

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  5. 01-06-2026 - End of WWI, Indecent Act on a Train, Old Sod Cottage and Earnscleugh Station Homestead

  6. 04-05-2026 - Lost Battle for Crete and Ashers Lane

    This week Bill Southworth brings us an unusual ANZAC story about the loss of Crete and the role in it of a Southland man, then Gregor Campbell takes us into the demi-monde of the 19th Century Dunedin underclass.

  7. 06-04-2026 - Plunket Sir Truby King, Stone Carver Louis Godfrey and Dunedin Slums

    In this Programme Bill Southworth profiles Sir Truby King, the founder of Plunket, Gregor Campbell looks at the career of a prolific stone carver Louis Godfrey and we finish with a 19th Century report on Dunedin Slums

  8. 02-03-2026 - Theologian Lloyd Geering, Plastic Surgery Pioneers and Lego teaches Heritage

    In this programme Bill Southworth looks at a new book about theologian Sir Lloyd Geering and the real story behind his heresy trial, we look at two famous plastic sugeons from Dunedin and Alison Breese tells us about a new innovation to get children interested in heritage buildings.

  9. 02-02-2025 - Keith Murdoch, Colin Boswell, Willowbank and Arthur Steers.

    Keith Murdoch, Colin Boswell, Willowbank and Arthur Steers.

  10. 05-01-2026 - Captured by Pirates, Arawata Bill, Joe the Oyster Shucker and Fatal contact for Early Maori

    Captured by Pirates, Arawata Bill, Joe the Oyster Shucker and Fatal contact for Early Maori.

  11. 27-11-2025 - Kaitangata Mine Disaster, Misers Demise, Dunedin Post Offices and Bishops Finances

    Kaitangata Mine Disaster, Misers Demise, Dunedin Post Offices and Bishops Finances

  12. 03-11-2025 - City of Heroes, 250th Landfall and Sir Julius Vogel

    In this programme, Gregor Campbell discovers Dunedin was once a city of heroes, a Venerable Literary and Arts Magazine celebrates it's 250th edition and Bill Southworth delves into the history of Sir Julius Vogel.

  13. 06-10-2025 - Heritage Festival, Russell Coutts, First Public Toilet and City Slums

    Heritage Festival, Russell Coutts, First Public Toilet and City Slums - This week Bill Southworth looks at a local boy who won the world's top yachting prize, we hear from the organiser of this month's heritage festival, Alison Breese tells us about Dunedin's first public toilet for women and...

  14. 01-09-2025 - Assault that never was, Julie Eichardt Novel, Mine Disaster Hero and National Historic Landmark Programme

    Assault that never was, Julie Eichardt Novel, Mine Disaster Hero and National Historic Landmark Programme.

  15. 04-08-2025 - Keith Murdoch, Colin Boswell, Willowbank and Arthur Steers

    Keith Murdoch, Colin Boswell, Willowbank and Arthur Steers - In this programme we bring you stories about two sons of the Dunedin suburb of Ravensbourne who may have been treated unjustly one was sent home from an All Black tour and the other was denied the Victoria Cross medal. We hear from...

  16. 07-07-2025 - Female Doctors, Love Triangle and Historic Kakanui Church

    Female Doctors, Love Triangle and Historic Kakanui Church - In this programme Bill southworth looks at a new book about the bad treatment of the first women medical students and doctors, Gregor Campbell explores a saucy triangle involving two policemen and one of the wives and Alison Breeze…

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  17. 02-06-2025 - Devil's Half-acre, War Artist Peter McIntyre, Lawrence Burial Tomb

    ​In this programme Gregor Campbell tells us about the Dunedin area known at the Devil's Half-acre and some of the shocking living conditions there, Bill Southworth profiles war artist Peter McIntyre and Alison Breese discovers the story about a Lawrence burial tomb.

  18. 05-05-2025 - Naseby Miners Strike, Cable Car Tragedy and Dunedin Athenaeum History

    Naseby Miners Strike, Cable Car Tragedy and Dunedin Athenaeum History

  19. 07-04-2025 - Captured by Pirates, Arawata Bill, Joe the Oyster Shucker and Fatal contact for Early Maori

    Pirates on the high seas, Arawhata Bill, a champion oyster shucker and European impact on early Māori - In this programme Gregor Campbell tells us about a Dunedin sea captain who was captured by pirates; Bill Southworth profiles the folk hero Arawhata Bill; we hear about a champion Purakaunui...

  20. 03-03-2025 - Kaitangata Mine Disaster, Miser's Demise, Dunedin Post Offices and Bishop's Finances

    Kaitangata Mine Disaster, Misers Demise, Dunedin Post Offices and Bishops Finances - In this programme, Bill Southworth recounts the tragic Kaitangata Mine Disaster, Gregor Campbell reports on the death of a Dunedin miser, and Alison Breeze delves into the history of three Dunedin post offices…

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  21. Heritage Matters - 03-02-2024 - Best of Replay - Lloyd Geering, Bison in Otago, Dr Emily Siedeberg and Shoot em up Princes street

    Best of Replay - Lloyd Geering, Bison in Otago, Dr Emily Siedeberg and Shoot em up Princes street.

  22. Heritage Matters - 06-01-2025 - Best of Replay - Bittersweet Part 3 and The Southern Comedy Players

    Best of Replay - Bittersweet Part 3 and The Southern Comedy Players

  23. Heritage Matters - 02-12-2024 - Reform Needed of Heritage Regulations, Actors and Actresses Needed and Fighting Fergy

    In this program, are Dunedin's heritage regulations up to scratch? David Kiddey, former chairman of regional committees of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust thinks not, and he talks to Bill Southworth. Gregor Campbell recounts the historical fraud of theatrical agent R.H. Porter in 1885. Then...

  24. Heritage Matters - 04-11-2024 - Plastic Surgery Pioneers, 19th Century Dunstan Times, Bizarre Medical Cures and Rabbit Scourge

    In this programme Bill Southworth looks at the career of two doctors born in Dunedin who were Plastic Surgery Pioneers, Gregor Campbell brings us a story from the 19th Century Dunstan Times, Judy Southworth tells us about some Bizarre 19th Century Medical Cures and to finish we look again at the...

  25. Heritage Matters - 07-10-2024 - Janet Frame, Stephen Macknight and some more Bad Poets

    Janet Frame, Stephen Macknight and some more Bad Poets - In This programme we hear about famous author Janet Frame, Bill Southworth interviews a building restorer and Gregor Campbell discovers another bad poet in Victorian Dunedin.

  26. Heritage Matters - 02-09-2024 - First Electricity, Gracie fields, Local Heritage News and Otagos First Poet

    First Electricity, Gracie fields, Local Heritage News and Otagos First Poet - In this programme Grego Campbell tells us about the first electricity generation in Otago, Judy Southworth reports on the 1945 visit to Dunedin by Gracie Fields, Sarah Gallagher updates us on local Heritage News and we...

  27. Heritage Matters - 05-08-2024 - Spanish Civil Wartime Surgeon, Mayoral Indecency, Heritage Festival and The Still that never was.

    Spanish Civil Wartime Surgeon, Mayoral Indecency, Heritage Festival and The Still that never was - Bill Southworth tells us about an Otago Surgeon who is much admired for his skills during wartime, Gregor Campbell reports on a Port Chalmers who once stood trial on pornography charges, The…

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  28. Heritage Matters - 01-07-2024 - Demolition of Historic House, Council Reaction and Dirty Old Dunedin

    Demolition of Historic House, Council Reaction and Dirty Old Dunedin - This week Bill Southworth talks to Jo Galer concerning the demolition of an historic Stuart Street building and then he interviews Councillor Sophie Barker on how things could be stopped in the future. Finally, Gregor Campbell...

  29. Heritage Matters - 03-06-2024 - Chinese Coffins, 10 Pound Poms Cricket Vengeance

    Chinese Coffins, 10 Pound Poms Cricket Vengeance

  30. Heritage Matters - 06-05-2024 - Mystery Corpse, 1951 Lockout and school of Mines

    Mystery Corpse, 1951 Lockout and school of Mines - Gregor investigates a mystery corpse found near the Waikouaiti Railway station in a Ditch, Bill tells us about the 1951 Waterfront Lockout and Alison Breese tells us about a long forgotten department at the University of Otago called the School…

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  31. Heritage Matters - 01-04-2024 - Boer War, Dunedin Mystery, Springbank and Stephens Inks

    Boer War, Dunedin Mystery, Springbank and Stephens Inks

  32. Heritage Matters - 01-03-2024 - Owen McShane, The Surat, Anscombe Designed House, Heritage Talk Series

    Owen McShane, The Surat, Anscombe Designed House, Heritage Talk Series

  33. Heritage Matters - 05-02-2023 - Best of Series

    Best of Series - Rabbits, Spies, John Turnbull Thompson and Speights Beer Barrell (Replay).

  34. Heritage Matters - 01-01-2024 - Best of Series 2023

    Best of series - Lloyd Geering, Bison in Otago, Dr Emily Siedeberg and Shoot em up Princes street (Replay)

  35. Heritage Matters - 04-12-2023 - Thomas Bracken and Otago Pioneer Womens Memorial Hall Part 2

    Thomas Bracken and Otago Pioneer Womens Memorial Hall Part 2

  36. Heritage Matters - 06-11-2023 - Otago Pioneer Womens Memorial Hall

    Otago Pioneer Womens Memorial Hall

  37. Heritage Matters - 02-10-2023 - The Devils Half Acre and The Dunedin Heritage Festival

    The Devils Half Acre and The Dunedin Heritage Festival

  38. Heritage Matters - 04-09-2023 - Medical School Larrikans, Caroline Freeman and Willi Fels

    Medical School Larrikans, Caroline Freeman and Willi Fels

  39. Heritage Matters - 07-08-2023 - Conman, Loan and Mercantile Building reuse and McIntyre House

    Conman, Loan and Mercantile Building reuse and McIntyre House - In this programme Gregor Campbell tells us of a notorious conman, Judy Southworth looks at plans for the old Loan and Mercantile building on the waterfront and Alison Breeze backgrounds the history of McIntyre House.

  40. Heritage Matters - 03-07-2023 - Rabbits, Spies, John Turnbull Thompson and Speights Beer Barrell

    Rabbits, Spies, John Turnbull Thompson and Speights Beer Barrell

  41. Heritage Matters - 05-06-2023 - Dirty Dunedin, Cr David Benson-Pope Interview, St Duthus, Port Chalmers Photographer

    In this week's programme Gregor Campbell looks at how garbage used to be dumped on the streets and reserves, Bill Southworth interviews Cr David Benson-Pope about "demolition by neglect" and Alison Breeze visits one of our grand homes, St Duthus. Finally, Gregor reports on the peculiar habits of…

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  42. Heritage Matters - 01-05-2023 - Lloyd Geering, Bison in Otago, Dr Emily Siedeberg and Shoot em up Princes street

    In this programme Bill Southworth covers the sensational heresy trial 50 years ago of Dunedin theologian Lloyd Geering. Gregor Campbell tells us of a North American buffalo who roamed Otago, Sarah Gallagher profiles Dr Emily Siedeberg, the first female medical practitioner in NZ and Gregor tells…

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  43. Heritage Matters - 03-04-2023 - New DCC Heritage Officer, First Plane Display and Grand Home in Pitt St

    New DCC Heritage Officer, First Plane Display and Grand Home in Pitt St - In this programme Bill Southworth talks to Mark Maudsley, the Dunedin City Council's heritage officer, we catch you up with some Southern Heritage News, Gregor Campbell tells us about the first plane built in Otago and…

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  44. Heritage Matters - 06-03-2023 - Character Homes, Logan Park, Carisbrooke and An Overly Amorous Train Passenger

    Character Homes, Logan Park, Carisbrooke and An Overly Amorous Train Passenger - In this programme, Bill Southworth interviews Jo Galer about the demolition of character homes in Dunedin,we hear how Logan park was created. Dougal looks into the history of the Carisbrooke rugby ground and we…

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  45. Heritage Matters - 05-12-2022 - Polish Settlers, Mornington Water Problems and The Leviathan Hotel

    Polish Settlers, Mornington Water Problems and The Leviathan Hotel

  46. Heritage Matters - 07-11-2022 - Otago Maori, Gardens Bandstand, Heritage Festival and Radio Mast

    Otago Maori, Gardens Bandstand, Heritage Festival and Radio Mast

  47. Heritage Matters - 03-10-2022 - Otago Radio Association, Taieri Plains Maori and Goldfields Graveyard Research

    Otago Radio Association, Taieri Plains Maori and Goldfields Graveyard Research - In this programme Gregor looks at the first radio Pioneer in Dunedin, Judy takes us out to the Taieri Plains and reports on pre-european Maori there, and finally Bill interviews two reseachers from the Medical school...

  48. Heritage Matters - 01-08-2022 - North East Valley Baby Farmer, The Long Hard Voyage Out and a Cleryman with Another's Lady

    North East Valley Baby Farmer, The Long Hard Voyage Out and a Cleryman with Another's Lady

  49. Heritage Matters - 04-07-2022 - Anthony Trollope, Dr Stuart and Medical School PMs

    Anthony Trollope, Dr Stuart and Medical School PMs

  50. Heritage Matters - 06-06-2022 - 10 Pound Poms, Vincent Pike, 19th Century Otago Peninsular and a Soldier at Passchendaele

    10 Pound Poms, Vincent Pike, 19th Century Otago Peninsular and a Soldier at Passchendaele

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The programme takes a look at what makes Dunedin the nation's heritage capital. The wonderful stock of historic buildings will be explored, as well as early European settlement, Maori life in past centuries and tales of gold. A new episode airs every second Monday at mid-day, with replays on Sundays at 7pm. (Thanks to the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture at the University of Otago).

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