Barry Bricknell is a celebrated potter, and sculptor of wonderfully eccentric pieces of art. He also built the Driving Creek Railway, which is now a tourist attraction in the hills just north of Coromandel town. But at 71, Barry's set up a trus

From Age to Age - John and Cath Carpenter

Oct 18th, 2011 19m 4s

John and Kath Carpenter were bikies in their "yoof". Kath always sat on the back but then she was badly injured in a motorcycle accident, and John has spent the last thirty years NOT looking in motorbike shop windows. Now, with one older teenag

From Age to Age - Anne Barry

Oct 18th, 2011 22m 1s

Anne Barry fought for years to become New Zealand's first woman fire fighter. Eventually she did, in a blaze of publicity! She went on to fight fires round Auckland till the mid 1990s. For the last decade Annie and her ex-fire fighter husband '

From Age to Age - Betty Ransom

Oct 18th, 2011 24m 36s

American-born Betty Ransom lived around Asia with her diplomat husband. Today she is a widow living with her oldest daughter in a small New Zealand country town. She has lost both husband and her first-born son. Betty, 85, half-jokingly calls h

From Age to Age - Maureen Thomas

Oct 18th, 2011 24m 30s

Maureen Thomas grew up in India between the two world wars, at the height of the British rule. Thirty years later she found herself living in New Zealand with four children, pregnant with a fifth, and a husband who'd disappeared in mysterious c

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