Max Pearson
speaker
1,342 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
Max Pearson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 3.
Appearances
Coming up, the extraordinary events surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany.
History was suddenly accelerating.
Also, the courage of the Maasai in Kenya when confronted by dying cattle in a drought.
It's an ecological, social and economic collapse for the Maasai.
It basically means death.
Plus a long trek along the Great Wall of China.
And I began to think, I bet no one has ever walked along the whole thing before.
If I could do that and document what I see, that would be a really meaningful contribution to our nation's history.
And how Anthony Bourdain reinvented the art of writing about food.
All his writing reflected more the
The noise, the pressure, the craziness, the sweat, the burn, everything that is going on in the kitchen.
But first, popes have been making and shaping history for millennia.
But in the last century, it was Pope John Paul II who set a very high standard in terms of his visibility and connection with the world's more than one billion Roman Catholics.
Jendale takes us back to the 22nd of November 1986, when Pope John Paul visited New Zealand as part of a whirlwind six-nation tour.
One of those carefully preparing for this historic event, as reported by Radio New Zealand, is Michael Jarka.
Michael is half Polish and is part of a dance group who want to give the Polish-born pontiff a little taste of home.
They work hard in the months before to get everything perfect.
They made wooden crosses which had a message of welcome to the Pope.
And we all helped out, sort of like on a production line, making those things and that, sewing Polish flags and getting Vatican flags and things and making the costumes and just going to practices every Sunday afternoon.
I remember going to those.
Showing 41–60 of 1,342 · page 3 of 68
← Previous
Next →