In the heart of Christchurch is a Designated Character high school. What makes it unique? And should there be more like it?

In the first 48 hours of life, blood from newborn New Zealand babies is taken and tested. Most parents will never hear back. For others, it’s life-changing.

If Peter Langlands needed to, he could eat for free. The food he doesn’t grow, he finds - sprouting wild and free in public spaces.

Less chemicals, carbon emissions and nitrates, super-healthy soil and plants growing like crazy. Farming the Regenerative way. Frank Film joins a feel-good field day.

We’ve never been so popular. Talk show hosts, royalty and 4 million visitors are beating a path to New Zealand. Frank Film asks how many tourists are too many tourists?

It’s been a heck of a ride for Zion Tauamiti. After a near-death experience the big-hearted youth worker is back, helping the kids of Christchurch - only this time he’s doing it differently.

The French have their poodles and the British their bulldogs, so what’s the official dog of New Zealand? Frank Film goes in search.

Lydia Bradey is a truly remarkable New Zealander. Don’t know her story? Watch Frank Film and be inspired. #NZOnAir

They can’t see stars at home so they’re flocking to see them here. Astro-tourism - putting the twinkle into Tekapo. Frank Film visits after dark. #NZOnAir

Lester Rowntree is a self-confessed hoarder who’s filling the town of Otira with stuff, every nook and cranny. What’s Lester up to? Frank Film investigates.

Did you know selective breeding was once government policy in New Zealand? Frank Film looks into the eugenics movement and the unlucky New Zealanders caught up in it. #NZOnAir

In the final week of campaigning we’re up close and personal with Christchurch’s main mayoral candidates who invited Frank Film into their homes, and kitchens. Well, to be fair, Frank invited themselves…

Post-quake many property investors took their insurance money and fled Christchurch. And, with foreign investors failing to show, Frank Film finds a few plucky locals taking a punt on building a city.

Christchurch’s pristine water is world renowned and safe to drink straight from the tap. But will this statement ring true in 50 or 100 years?

New Zealand in 1900 had seen nothing like it - a mega-mansion, the largest wooden house in the land.

To be a Christchurch Auntie you have to be kind and ‘non-judgey’. The Aunties now number 2,500, a network of people providing practical support to victims of domestic violence.

A year before the 2011 earthquake Christchurch’s historic Arts Centre upped its insurance cover by $90M. A decision that would ultimately save the largest collection of heritage buildings in New Zealand.

She’s a doctor who’s devoted decades to caring for disadvantaged youth. He’s a pioneering surgeon who set up a charity hospital where treatments are free.

What if your home insurance premium jumped from $2000 to $17000?

Buildings once stood where lettuces now thrive, in the centre of our second biggest city. Cultivate Christchurch produces more than veges, they’re growing opportunities for young people.

On March 15  two men ran into Christchurch Hospital claiming they’d witnessed a shooting and to expect patients. It was the first and only warning the hospital would receive.

A unique way of life that has flourished for almost 80 years near Motueka. Could you live here?

It's a four-legged frenzy which unleashes sheer doggy delight!

It took a dedicated group of Christchurch parents to put a “stake in the ground” and declare an intention to turn their school around.

Is one of New Zealand's finest buildings about to be demolished?

Cantabrians have come in their thousands to place flowers, to seek solace, to come together at this time.

As the Christchurch Town Hall underwent a 167 million dollar refurbishment, the building’s original architects would pop in, to look over the works.

With an election looming, Christchurch Dilemmas looks at the state of our city rebuild.

This week Christchurch Dilemmas asks how is our prized waterway really doing?

This week Christchurch Dilemmas meets the Filipino men who’ve left their loved ones to come here for work.

The 1200 residents of Southshore enjoy enviable access to both the Estuary and the Pacific Ocean, but what does the future hold for this special spit?

A new plan for a new-look Cathedral Square with multiple zones. Will it work?

Join Christchurch Dilemmas on a 2017 mid-winter tour of the central city scene.

After rising 6m out of the sea in some places we went to find out how the the marine life is doing after the Kaikoura quake.

Who's taken up the challenge of repairing the road and will SH1 be open by Christmas?

A stunning aerial tour of the Port Hills with park ranger, Di Carter.

A nationwide mental health study has identified young people are suffering the most in Christchurch's east..

Created by artist Peter Majendie, the installation was meant to be temporary. Five years on a decision must be made - stay or go?

Is this an exciting new era in education, or a social experiment?

Bowl it over, or build it back up? Remove or restore? Six years on, the fate of Christchurch Cathedral is dividing the city.

There’s talk of gondolas, laneways, and hidden streams. Can anyone deliver on our dreams for this much-loved public space?

The latest plan to revitalise the seaside suburb is revealed - what do the people think?

How easy is it to buy, to fix, to sell a damaged, or even condemned house?

We talk to three small business owners about the central city and their place in it.

Are we spending it wisely?

How do we involve the people?

How can we make it affordable?

Is it what we dreamed of?

Do we have a crisis?

What is its future?

Christchurch from the Streets learns of the futures of the land, the built environment and the people of Christchurch.

Christchurch from the Streets talks with an architect, a developer, a real estate agent, a resident and a small business man about the future of the city centre.

Many of the children of the city today cannot remember a world before the earthquakes.

Despite the huge loss of studios and exhibition spaces, the arts are flourishing and becoming instrumental in the recovery of the city.

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Four years after the first earthquake, Christchurch from the Streets asks how the earthquakes have shaped the city.

In the final episode of the season Jim Lundy travels to New Orleans, San Francisco and Portland and finds out what has worked well in each of those iconic cities before presenting some new ideas for Christchurch.

In this episode we visit Lyttelton, talk cycleways in the city and visit Smash Palace.

Roger Sutton takes us down the Avon River and talks about his vision vision for the river, we go on an Otākaro city walk and then explore the Red Zone.

Roger Sutton takes us on a tour through the city and explains C.E.R.A’s Blueprint vision. We visit C1 café, the 185 chairs and talk one-way streets with business owners. Before talking about ReKindle with Juliet Arnott.

In this episode we take a tour of New Brighton, Brooklands and Kaiapoi as each suburb has a unique set of challenges to overcome.

Christchurch from the Streets talk with Shane the baker, St Paul's School, and the Delta Community Trust about dealing with the aftermath of the Canterbury Earthquakes.