Ahead of accepting Aotearoa’s highest arts accolade, Dame Jane Campion talks about a life of creativity, and bringing women’s desires to screen. National Correspondent Michelle Duff tells us about the story, and reads it for The Long Read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The race with no end: Mud, blood and heartbreak at running's most brutal event.It’s a race with no end. Entrants have to keep running until they simply can’t go on, until they drop, until there’s only one person left standing. Mike White wrote about the heroics and heartbreak that unfolded in the most brutal race imaginable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1985, 1-year-old Penny-Tui Taputoro suffered fatal injuries while in the care of family friend, Kathleen Smith. Nearly four decades later, despite conflicting evidence, lies and an admission extracted using a controversial interviewing technique, Smith has not been charged. And Penny-Tui’s family is still searching for the truth. Listen to Reporter Blair Ensor explain What Happened to Baby Penny-Tui. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Farrier has reported from radioactive wastelands and conspiracy rabbit holes, but his latest documentary may have taken him to the most toxic place yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New Zealand comedian Willy de Wit has packed a lot into his 62 years - and his new book 'Drink Smoke Snort Stroke' details the highs and lows with surprising frankness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After 30 years, Peter Ellis' convictions for child sexual abuse have been quashed. Listen to full story and hear reporter Martin van Beynen discuss the Supreme Court judgment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eighteen years ago, Chris Canham jumped off a hospital building because he thought the devil was after him. He woke three weeks later with broken legs and a smashed pelvis. But he still felt lucky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nearly 3000 people have been deported to New Zealand since Australia began hardline enforcement of a populist immigration policy in late 2014. More than half of them have gone on to commit crimes, but some are on the road to redemption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dame Ngaio Marsh is best known as a crime writer. But she devoted most of her life to turning one New Zealand city into a beacon of high culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Wellington occupation was supposed to be about ending the mandates, but a new Stuff Circuit documentary investigates those behind the protest and discovers they have far bigger and more dangerous goals. Fire and Fury is a Stuff Circuit investigation into disinformation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Watch the full documentary here: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2022/08/circuit/fire-and-fury-disinformation-in-new-zealand/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's a mystery that just won't go away: is one of Auckland's most prominent landmarks still hiding secrets? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alan Hall spent 19 years in jail for a murder he didn't commit, but the authorities repeatedly refused to acknowledge a terrible mistake had been made. When the Supreme Court quashed Hall’s conviction, calls grew for those responsible to be held accountable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Melanie Lynskey has always been brilliant. Why did it take till now for the world to realise? Zoe Walker Ahwa reads her NZ-exclusive interview with the Emmy-nominated actress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The story of an aging communist with oxygenated fish tanks in his car who roamed New Zealand's countryside for decades in a bizarre crime spree that forever changed our environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The chase is on. The Long Read is breaking character harder than a Bradley Walsh laughing fit to discuss Stuff's data project on TV quiz show The Chase. Mike is joined by Stuff data journalist Kate Newton and Stuff to Watch pod host James Croot to dissect the project and talk about why the show is such a phenomenon in NZ. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The unsolved murder of 15-year-old Kirsty Bentley in 1998 in Ashburton is seared into the national consciousness. Now, police have announced a major move in the case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Murder, madness, exile, redemption: For more than 100 years, Albert Moss was the only New Zealander to take all 10 wickets in an innings in first-class cricket. It was just the start of his remarkable life story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When "Robert" first came across Bert Potter and his followers, he was all in. But after uncovering a dark secret at the Centrepoint commune, he was faced with a terrible decision – should he stay or should he go? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sandy Graham shot dead her partner, Dale Watene, then had her best friend bury the body in a shallow grave, deep in a forest. Then she told lie after lie to hide what she’d done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Marist Brothers and Fathers have educated prime ministers, judges, cardinals and All Blacks. But their record of sexual abuse is horrific. Why have survivors receive pitifully small compensation payouts? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For many, the terror attacks on the Christchurch mosques seemed to come from nowhere. But not everyone was blind to the looming danger. In the series See No Evil, Stuff investigates how a group of women desperately tried to get the attention of officials – and why they failed. (Episode two of a two-episode special.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For many, the 2019 terror attacks on the Christchurch mosques seemed to come from nowhere. But not everyone was blind to the looming danger. In the series See No Evil, Stuff investigates how a group of women desperately tried to get the attention of officials – and why they failed. (Episode one of a two-episode special.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sleeping rough and suffering from terminal bowel cancer, Barbara Campbell, known as Rose, was allegedly murdered in the shopfront she’d made her home. How did she come to be estranged from her family and living on the street? WARNING: One instance of strong language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The drinking buddies who bamboozled police with their near-perfect bank job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A shallow lake nestled high in the Central Otago hill country could electrify the country, and serve as the biggest public infrastructure project in nearly half a century. Will reality, and a protected wetland, stop it in its tracks? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Allegations about megachurches have prompted significant media attention. Do they signal the end of the age of the 'hype priest'? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When the anti-mandate protesters were driven off parliamentary grounds in March, many went looking for somewhere else to occupy. They set their sights on a marae in Lower Hutt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The killing of 15-year-old schoolgirl Kylie Ann Smith left a rural community in tatters and drove a pastor into hiding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For a few weird months in 1991, Adam Dudding played piano for New Zealand’s most celebrated female impersonator. But when he went in search of memories of Diamond Lil, he found a strange, tragic tale of opera, filthy double entendres – and alleged sex crimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was one meeting, in one town, about one river. But it was the flash point for a debate consuming rural New Zealand - How do we conserve our fresh water and our economy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
