For decades, a rundown house in Christchurch secretly harboured one of New Zealand’s greatest literary treasures. This is the story of the reclusive hoarder who hid it, the woman who wrote it, and the man who rediscovered it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 10, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 17
One intrepid reporter dives headlong into the world of Covid-19 conspiracies and emerges to tell the tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 04, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Plunket's founder is widely acknowledged as a white supremacist who established the society to help preserve the "master race". More than 100 years on, can Plunket shake its racist past? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 27, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Olivia Shivas joins Michael Wright to talk about Stuff's latest podcast What's Wrong with You? – about life with a disability –and share the most inappropriate question she's ever been asked about using a wheelchair. Listen to the first episode of WWWY and, if you like what you hear, subscribe to the series: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2021/08/whats-wrong-with-you-podcast/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 24, 2021•46 min
From refugee to Fulbright scholar. Abbas Nazari was seven years old when he fled the Taliban and was rescued from a sinking boat by the cargo ship Tampa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 21, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Forty years on, protesters recall the heart-stopping moments and enduring consequences of the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 13, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 13
The terrible truth about why 385 passengers and crew were held hostage by Saddam Hussein; and the New Zealand journalist who refused to let the story go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 07, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 12
More and more of us call our home New Zealand Aotearoa, but as its popularity rises, so does the noise around it. Why is New Zealand also called Aotearoa? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 30, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Seven years since Te Urewera was officially recognised as a legal person, her people – Ngāi Tūhoe – are facing up to the wounds of colonisation and a Crown partnership haunted by the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 23, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Willi Huber, the pioneer behind Canterbury's Mt Hutt ski field, hid a dark past on his immigration forms. Now, the woman who was closest to him is breaking her silence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 15, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Nearly 180 years ago, at a central Auckland intersection, a Māori teenager was hanged before hundreds of settlers, changing the course of history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 08, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Moko kauae is resurging in New Zealand. One woman's journey to receiving the traditional Māori chin tattoo, and a reporter grappling with her own identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 02, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 7
New Zealand’s braided rivers have been systematically strangled, and in some case, left behind zombie rivers. Now, academics and scientists are re-imagining what it means to live with rivers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 25, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 6
How chemical weapons, economic theory and the internet combined to squeeze ten barbershops into one Auckland suburb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 18, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Skulduggery, bullying and death threats in New Zealand's rabbit breeding community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 10, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 4
The story of how a roguish, beloved New Zealand bird was nearly eradicated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 03, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Thousands of people have strived to represent New Zealand at the Olympic Games. Just 1371 have succeeded. This is the story of Joseph Millar's decade-long quest to be one of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 27, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 2
One public health expert still believes New Zealand’s widely-lauded response to Covid-19 has been a disaster. But how did Dr Simon Thornley become the 'extreme outlier' in his profession and a hero to anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 20, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 1
The Long Read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 18, 2021•38 sec