Bruce Munro

A professor brought to NZ to help eradicate both weasels and stoats is warning against repeating mistakes that made Otago ground-zero for the disastrous introduction of those invasive predators.

A professor brought to New Zealand to help eradicate both weasels and stoats is warning against repeating mistakes that made Otago ground-zero for the disastrous introduction of those invasive predators.

At 74, engineer and international figure-skater Keith Dickson has built a helicopter fuelled by hydrogen-peroxide. Dickson gives Bruce Munro his take on the future of transport and Dunedin’s place in it.

We need to talk about New Zealand’s spy agencies, says Andrew Little. But do we know enough to be able discuss our spies? Bruce Munro takes a look.

NZ produces enough food to feed 40 million but might not grow enough vegetables for its own population. Bruce Munro looks back on a time when 24 Chinese market gardens flourished on the fertile Taieri plains.

Fair pay would be a good start. But if you still can’t afford to buy a home, something else needs to change, for the sake of everyone’s future. As Labour Day weekend is celebrated around the country, Bruce Munro takes a look.

Toby Robins helped researchers working on a radical new cure for cancer, but died doing so. His is one of two Otago tales in a documentary about the tremendous promise of Car-T cell therapy. Bruce Munro talks to filmmaker Annie Goldson and to Toby’s parents, Carolyn and Ben.