MAN: Sunday ` proudly brought to you by Mazda. Tonight on Sunday ` the Kiwi soldier missing for a hundred years. Nobody knew where he was or what happened to him. He was their Uncle Jack. For me, really poignant... to think that his` his life had just stopped. Then a rare discovery. Nieuw-Zeelander. It's our job to get him out as good as possible. And Nadia Lim ` how she's turned kitchen failures... I cooked it and we ate it last night. All day today I was farting all through my meetings. ...into $135 million food empire. I don't know if I actually have the talent or skills to do this. Am I being a fake? Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Copyright Able 2016 Kia ora, I'm Miriama Kamo. Later we're gonna talk to Nadia Lim, but first, young Jack Walker was popular at school, a head boy, athletically gifted and with a sense of adventure that took him straight into World War One, where he vanished, killed in action. For 101 years, his family have never known what really happened to Jack until a recent rare discovery in Flanders Fields. Here's Ian Sinclair. IAN SINCLAIR: Belgium, and in the World War One battleground of Flanders Fields, 200,000 missing soldiers lie beneath this mud. But now Belgian archaeologists are trying to identify just one ` a Kiwi. He'd gone to war, and he'd died, and he'd died in a field in Flanders. It still gives me goosebumps if you, uh` to tell the story again. An extraordinary discovery. And that's a miracle. It's a miracle. At St Aidan's Church in Auckland's Remuera lies a mute reminder of a young man remembered by his family for 101 years. And here's the name ` Henry John Innes Walker. This plaque was put up by a grieving mum and dad a long time ago. See, Capt Walker simply vanished into the mud of World War One, and for his family, all hope of finding him is long gone. Or is it? Can the missing still turn up against all odds? How did you remember him? Just as Jack ` Uncle Jack. Uncle Jack? Yeah. Because he was always there from... Even when I was little, you know, I used to hear about Uncle Jack. 'Jack was a soldier killed in the war.' Well, you've got a remarkable record here. Mm. Most people have one photo. You've got albums full... Yeah. ...of Jack. 85-year-old Michael Walker has always been fascinated with the story of his missing uncle. So, where's Jack here? Where's Jack? That's Jack right in the middle. Right in the middle? Yeah. His family were Auckland pioneers. Take that middle name Innes, as in the suburb Glen Innes. Grandad once owned the lot. He bought up virtually all of Tamaki and most of Mt Albert. Yes, he had advantages, but Jack also had talent. You know, you get a guy like this who's just naturally very good at everything he does, you know. And Michael found that's how they still remember him at Jack's old private school, Auckland's King's College. Probably... Well, it was certainly stated in writing that, um, in our history that Jack was probably King's College's most successful athlete ever. As school historian John Bean reveals, his sporting trophies still hold pride of place at King's. He was in the first XI cricket. He was in the first XV rugby. Uh, he was a champion athlete. Small wonder Jack was head boy. A golden boy, really. He was the best at everything. Jack's great nieces, Marie and Juliet are also intrigued by the story of their missing uncle. He was a great guy, and all the others` the other boys were good athletes as well, but, um, Uncle Jack, I think, was... ...was the star. Yeah, was the star, yeah. Jack had a thirst for adventure,... and the big wide world beckoned. In 1911, Jack left Auckland for India, enlisting for officer training in the British Army's elite Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He always wanted to be a soldier right from when he was old enough to know that he wanted to be a soldier. Yeah. The British Raj would become Jack's Indian summer ` a summer that ended in horrific violence. EXPLOSIONS World War One had erupted, and Jack's unit was thrown up against the German invasion of Belgium. His letters back to Auckland paint a frightening picture. The air was full of bullets and shrapnel. Before that scrap started, most of us had never been under fire, but in five minutes, we had all experienced just about every sort of bullet from every sort of gun. Yet amidst the carnage, Jack witnessed an event immortalised in books and film ` the Christmas truce of 1914. In the family photo album, Michael reveals an incredible photo taken by Jack of that event. I see Germans in this photograph? Well, they just stopped fighting. This is Christmas 1914? Mm. Another letter home tells the story. Our men and the Germans met halfway between the trenches, shook hands, exchanged cigars and cigarettes and talked matters over.' Why would they do that? I don't` I don't know. I can't believe that they would do that and then go and shoot people` shoot each other. It would be Jack's last Christmas. Sunday April 25th 1915 ` Anzac Day. The very morning fellow Kiwis are rowing ashore at Gallipoli, Capt Jack Walker leads his British troops over the top in Belgium. (BLOWS WHISTLE) MEN SHOUT, GUNS FIRE Would you describe him as a brave man? Oh yes. I think his actual words, according to the witnesses that I've got letters of, 'Come on, lads.' Pistol up in the air. 'Come on, lads.' You know, real schoolboy stuff. BELL TOLLS In just 20 minutes, 2000 British troops would die. One of them was Jack. We'd always believed that he'd been hit by a shell and blown to bits and nobody knew where he was or what had happened to him. And the next thing is... there's no photos. Mm. And that was... that's it. He wasn't coming back. So that was really` for me, really poignant to think that his` his life had just stopped. GENTLE ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC Belgium 2016 ` in Flanders Fields the missing have rested in peace for a century. So that's a ground that normally stays untouched forever. But now the dead are about to be disturbed. A major development is planned for the battlefield. Well, they're gonna put a gas pipe in there, so they were going to destroy everything by laying the pipe. MEN SPEAK FLEMISH Archaeologist Simon Verdegem would lead a recovery operation to unearth the dead. Well, we did expect to find some, uh... some remains cos we were going through a heavy-fought area. Then there was the danger. What do you think? I'm not sure yet. There's lots of fragmentation round here, so won't get carried away until we confirm we might have something of a hazard. 'Course, the threat of the ammunition that was still lying around there. So there's always, uh, some... some, uh, level of danger, yeah. All around them lay the carnage of war. The first two weeks, we found almost 20 bodies at a real small stretch of the` of the dig, so you can imagine we only, um,... uh, investigated an area that's 13m wide, so over 13m wide and I think 200m or 300m, uh, in length, so you can imagine if you would open up the area a little more, how much soldiers are still lying over there, so... There was one big shell crater where we found two bodies, and one of them, um,... was an, uh` an officer that we could, um, identify as a Royal Warwickshire officer. An officer from Kiwi Jack Walker's unit and found in the same area where Jack died. It's our job, our responsibility to get him out as good as possible, cos if we don't do it, then all the machinery will come after us and his body will be lost forever. But a grave is better than just lying there in the cold. With the bodies of 200,000 missing soldiers lying in these fields, what are the chances of identifying this particular officer? Well, there are two steps that we do. Um, one is the investigation of the body itself. And that's always done by a physical anthropologist. And then we, as archaeologists, we look at, uh... at all the personal effects and weapons that they carry with them ` things that can lead us to a name, to a unit, to a fight. What made them focus on this officer was the sheer number of personal effects found with him. So, he had his uniform on, but in his, uh` in his pocket, he had his, uh` his money, his, uh` the medallion, he had his, uh, binoculars in a leather case, um, I think his wire cutters were found, um, a whistle, a pocket knife. Everything was still with him. At that point, we found a medallion with the initials on it. (SPEAKS FLEMISH) That's Belgian for H`J-I-W. Henry John Innes Walker. Kiwi Jack Walker identified 100 years after he vanished. Henry John Innes Walker. Nieuw-Zeelander. It all matched ` the belt; the Royal Warwickshire lapel badge, still attached to his collar just as it was in this photo taken before the battle. Knowing that you've found a person and that you can put a name on him, that's something indescribable. It still gives me goosebumps if you, uh` to tell the story again. It's something I'll never forget. It's, uh... It was very,... um, moving, and Capt Walker will always stay with me and with the team, cos he was the first soldier, uh, we could ever identify. They'd found our relative, our Uncle Jack, our` our face of the tragedy. And he had to stay there for a hundred years, and now` and now he's been found, and that's a miracle. GENTLE ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC For decades, every Anzac Day, Michael Walker has made a pilgrimage to King's College Chapel. This memorial window, a tangible reminder of his missing uncle. Now he has something much more. I suppose it definitely is closure for me now. Yeah. I can say to family, friends, grandchildren, whatever, 'Uncle Jack is in a grave in Belgium.' It's very comforting to know there's somewhere to go, something to see, even though it's just a grave, but we know he's in there. GENTLE ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC CONTINUES Well, Jack's family are keen to finally get those personal effects you just saw home. His final resting place is yet to be decided. Well, up next ` from MasterChef to My Food Bag, and now there's more. Nadia Lim's kitchen rules. And the magazine is called... Nadia. (LAUGHS) How do you feel about that? Um, look, it wasn't my idea to actually call it Nadia, (CHUCKLES) but, oh, fine. Hello, again. Just a few years ago she was a bundle of nerves, tears and self-doubt as she stepped on to prime-time TV to prove to us she could cook. Now Nadia Lim is the face of a multimillion-dollar business, My Food Bag, delivering dinner ingredients to our doors. She's put 20 million meals on our tables. Nadia's come from nowhere to now being everywhere, but as she tells Janet McIntyre, she is still learning as she goes, still making mistakes. 'How dare you put in a French onion soup as a recipe in the Food Bag. 'I cooked it, and we ate it last night, and this, um` 'all day today, I was farting all throughout my meetings.' # Here I come. # JANET MCINTYRE: She's learnt the hard way,... Getting in the kitchen, just getting your hands dirty, and then things not turning out. ...right in front of our eyes,... (SNIFFLES) Sorry. ...not through success, but failure,... Looks like these were made by a 12-year-old. (CHUCKLES) Yeah. ...how to capture our taste buds and lure us into the kitchen. It was a real light-bulb moment when I realised that, hey, cooking's second nature to me, but the actual truth is that most people don't even have a lot of basic cooking skills. And it's going more and more that way, which is really scary. Man, this week's did really well. In just three and a half years, Nadia, along with two other shareholders, has grown the Food Bag business into an empire, with a forecast revenue of $135 million next year,... READS: Delicious and would've got five stars had there been enough food for five people. ...just by answering a question that's on everyone's minds every night ` 'What's for dinner?' At the end of a busy day, that's what everyone is thinking. Nadia says she's taken out the guesswork, each week filling tens of thousands of bags with precisely measured ingredients, dispatching them to doorsteps all around the country. Do you think you're maybe taking away the joy of cooking by giving people everything they need in a bag? I think it's the opposite. It gives them all the tools. Once you get the bag delivered to you, you don't have any excuse. You've got all the ingredients there that you need. You've got the recipes, the instructions. You haven't had to do any of the planning or anything. So you have to cook it. Nadia knew she had to cook when she was a little girl growing up in Mt Albert, adventurous and hungry. Even ate ants, I remember, when I was a little kid. One of three kids raised by Malaysian-born Ken, a civil engineer, and his wife, Julie, Nadia got hooked on cooking watching her dad in the kitchen. You could really see` When he was, like, frying something in the wok, you could really see that he was so into it. He had a real, um, passion for it, and the end result would taste amazing. Then there was Jamie. At 12, Nadia was crazy in love with him. I was absolutely convinced that one day we would meet somehow and we'd get on so well, and we'd end up getting married and write cookbooks together and have a TV show together. But it was Carlos Bagrie, not Jamie Oliver, who would ultimately capture her heart after they exchanged smiles in a crowded pub in their first week at Otago University. He says to me now that, um, if it hadn't been for my smile back at him that he wouldn't have come over to say hi. What was the most memorable dish Nadia's ever cooked for you? It was venison medallions on fresh gnocchi, candlelit-dinner styles. We were just moving outta university, uh, and that was a going-away gift from Nadia to me. I had to cook something really amazing to make sure that he wasn't gonna run away, he was gonna come back to me. (CHUCKLES) Mm. So` No, no, no, you use the spoon. Yep. Five months ago, along came baby Bodhi Bagrie, whose taste buds Nadia is already trying to cultivate. This is avocado, banana and pear all kinda mashed up together. He sits up with us at the table all the time and gets to eat` he gets to try bits and pieces off my plate. With a baby, a multimillion-dollar business and a husband who now works for her ` Working for me? Um, or me working for him? (LAUGHS) Carlos manages her brand ` Do you want some more food on that spoon? Nadia's life has changed big time from five years ago, when the then-shy dietician first stepped into our living rooms. I'm just utterly, completely obsessed with food. Like, there's nothing else I wanna do more. But her dad didn't approve. He said, 'Why would you wanna do that?' Because I` at the time, like, I had a really good job. Nadia. You know, rules are rules. Yeah, I know. I don't I'd ever cried as much. You know I was just paying you a compliment then. Yeah, I know. I'm actually quite an introvert. Um, I like my own space, and, um, cameras, to me, were just really scary. Like, my lip would literally quiver every time I was in front of a camera. Nadia, you are NZ's MasterChef! APPLAUSE, CHEERING But even after taking the cooking crown, and with a cookbook contract in her bag, she was still insecure. I don't know if` if I actually have the talent, um, or skills to do this. Am I being a fake? It didn't last. I accept that I am really talented when it comes to cooking, and I do have a natural knack for flavours and putting it together, and I really really want everyone to be able to love food as much as I do. So, yeah, I've accepted that I am the right person for it. After starting My Food Bag in her own kitchen, she now has 21 chefs dreaming up her dinner ideas and putting them on our tables. It's expensive. Um, well, there's a big price range. For the top-of-the-line gourmet bag, just under $18 a plate. I could just go out, buy the mince, buy the vegetables, do it all myself and probably for a lot less money. < Why wouldn't I just do that? Oh, I'd challenge you to see if you could, actually, because you'd have to buy whole packs of things, and you'd end up with leftovers of all of that. It's an aspirational brand ` healthy, tasty food; a slender, gorgeous young mum who fronts it. It's Kiwi; it's heartland; it's wholesome. ALL CHANT HAKA Just like the Chiefs, who until a few weeks ago were sponsored by My Food Bag. I did quite a few cooking lessons with them, which was a lot of fun. Until they ordered a stripper and misbehaved. We're a very family-based, um, values company, and our customers are families as well, and it's just not right. The two` the two mentalities just didn't fit up, so, yeah, we had to` had to drop the sponsorship. Brand Nadia is just about to get a bit bigger, with a lifestyle magazine soon to be launched. And the magazine is called... ...Nadia. (LAUGHS) Yeah. And how do you feel about that? Um... Look, it wasn't actually my idea to call it Nadia, (CHUCKLES) but, oh, fine. You're lucky you've got an exotic name, because not everyone's name's gonna work on a magazine, is it? Oh, thanks, Janet. Like Peter or Janet ` it's just not gonna go. (LAUGHS) Oh, I think it would still go well. (LAUGHS) None of this might have happened if she hadn't won MasterChef, with a dish taught to her by her father. Thanks for telling me how to cook pork kidneys. Really? Yeah. LAUGHTER Ken Lim passed away a year later, aged 59, just as his daughter's career was taking off. So what do you think your dad would make of all this if he were here to see it? Well, I remember when` it would've been his last day, um, at the hospital, and he just said` He didn't` I mean, he didn't say that much, but he just said, um, in all his years, he would've never imagined that` that his kids would be doing what they're doing today. So, yeah, I think he was quietly amazed. Mm. (CHUCKLES SOFTLY, SNIFFLES) GENTLE ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC Aw, makes me want to ring my dad. Well, up next ` a peek at our story on the power of music to change lives when nothing else can. Well, to, sort of, give someone that gift where they can leave all of their worries behind... is huge. MAN SINGS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE Welcome back. What happens when two worlds collide? When a beautiful, acclaimed singer meets a young man who hates music and is stuck in a world of violence and tragedy? We'll close the show with a look at an inspiring story from next week's programme. Until then, nga mihi nui, hei kona. (PLAYS GENTLE TUNE) (CONTINUES PLAYING) (SINGS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE) (CONTINUES SINGING) Captions by Desney Shaw and Ashlee Scholefield. Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air.