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Deep dive into a rigorous romp through the history of New Zealand, from its volcanic beginnings, through settlement, wars and social change to the late 20th century.

Stories about getting older in a world that wants us to stay young.

Join The Detail team six days a week as they make sense of the big stories with the country’s best journalists and experts.

Stories that explore the distance and the difference between us.

Geoff Houtman was part of the team that created the worst sitcom ever made. It's haunted him for 25 years. Now he's on a quest to see what lessons we can learn about failure in general.

| Winner Best Podcast – NZ Radio Awards 2019 | | Winner Gold Medal – New York Festivals Radio Awards 2019 | | Winner Best Investigative Radio/Audio Series – The AIBs 2019 | Gail Maney was sent to prison on her son’s birthday. The police said she’d put a hit on a man who stole drugs from her. She went to jail for 15 years. She’s consistently denied having anything to do with the disappearance of Deane Fuller-Sandys. In fact, she says, she never even met him. She isn't sure he was murdered at all. She thinks he’d just … gone fishing. In this eight-part series, Amy Maas and Adam...

The shady, controversial and sometimes downright villainous characters of NZ history. Join William Ray as he explores history through the lens of Kiwi dirtbags in NZ's most awarded podcast.

There's never a shortage of opinions on the media but Mediawatch looks at it all in detail for those keen to know more about the news - as well as those who work in media.

On November 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand jet took off from Auckland Airport on a sightseeing trip to Antarctica. There were 257 people on board. Hours later everyone was dead. Somehow, the plane had flown directly into the Erebus volcano. This was a disaster that shattered a country’s psyche. In the decades since, grief gave way to blame, anger and recrimination. Who was responsible for so many deaths? Was there a cover-up? How could a plane just fly into a mountain? To mark the 40th anniversary of the disaster, Michael Wright and Katy Gosset explore why New Zealand’s deadliest disaster ...

From nine to noon every weekday, Kathryn Ryan talks to the people driving the news - in New Zealand and around the world. Delve beneath the headlines to find out the real story, listen to Nine to Noon's expert commentators and reviewers and catch up with the latest lifestyle trends on this award-winning programme.

Nine to Noon's Kathryn Ryan interviews parenting experts to help you navigate the trends, trials & tough calls of modern family life.

Stacey Morrison looks at the latest food & fitness trends asking what's hype and digging into what the science says. In short: Do they work?

The Panel features a range of panellists from across the opinion spectrum, together with expert phone guests.

Music interviews, live performances, behind the scenes, industry issues, profiles, back catalogue, undiscovered, greatest hits, tall tales and true... all from a New Zealand/Aotearoa perspective.

Women won the right to vote in New Zealand in 1893. On the 125th anniversary we look back at battles won & debate battles still being fought. Historians and ordinary women share their stories.

An adventure through the bumpy bumper 2019 breeding season of NZ's rare flightless parrot.

Exploring stories that are firmly rooted in our past to magically dream about the futures we want to create for ourselves.

News and current affairs with Nathan Rarere, weekdays at 5am.

The true stories of New Zealand's missing people. Paloma Migone digs into the cold cases of those who never came home and talks to those still waiting.

To celebrate 150 years of the periodic table, get to know the back story of every element with our entripid scientific hosts.