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March 03 Trailer: Quarantine Nation
A lethal virus. A drastic lockdown. A nation turned upside down.
From the makers of acclaimed podcasts The Commune, True Story and Witi Underwater, this eight-part narrative series revisits the Covid-19 pandemic with the benefit of hindsight and powerful interviews. Adam Dudding and Eugene Bingham delve into what really happened – and what it taught us about ourselves.
Subscribe to "Quarantine Nation" wherever you get your podcasts, or follow the links here: ⁠Quarantine Nation Player Links⁠,
Made with the support of NZ on Air for Stuff by Te Pūrongo Productions.

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4 min
August 02, 2024 Introducing: The Trial - Philip Polkinghorne
On Easter Monday 2021, police were called to the home of a successful professional couple in the affluent Auckland suburb of Remuera. They found the body of Pauline Hanna.
In his emergency call, her husband, Philip Polkinghorne, said she killed herself. Sixteen months later he was charged with her murder. As this podcast is released, he's currently on trial at the High Court in Auckland.
Stuff's groundbreaking series returns to take you inside the Polkinghorne trial: Hear the witnesses, follow the evidence, wait for the verdict.

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29 min
July 31, 2024 Something big...
Season two of Stuff's multi-award winning podcast The Trial is coming very soon.
Police are called to the multi-million dollar home of a successful couple to find the body of Pauline Hanna, also known as Pauline Polkinghorne. A year and a half later, eye surgeon Philip John Polkinghorne is charged with murdering his wife, a charge he denies.
The Trial, season two, available soon wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to Stuff Extra on Apple or Spotify to be the first to hear new episodes.

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2 min
June 18, 2022 Introducing The Commune: Sex, drugs - and a guru called Bert
Listen to the first episode of Stuff's major new podcast, The Commune, a 12-part investigation into the notorious free-love commune, Centrepoint. There are crimes. But this isn't a whodunnit. It's a whydunnit. Subscribe at www.stuff.co.nz/thecommune
40 min
June 12, 2022 Introducing The Commune: Sex, drugs – and a guru called Bert
Listen to the first episode of Stuff’s major new podcast, The Commune, a 12-part investigation into the notorious free-love commune, Centrepoint. There are crimes. But this isn’t a whodunnit. It’s a whydunnit. Subscribe at www.stuff.co.nz/thecommune
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43 min
February 17, 2021 6: Tragedy, travesty
Police announce the results of their investigation. Will anyone be held accountable over 115 deaths?
59 min
February 15, 2021 4: Boom and bust
The CTV building was born in the 1980s construction boom. It had profound design flaws that were flagged at the time. How did it even get built?
46 min
February 14, 2021 6: Tragedy, travesty
Police announce the results of their investigation. Will anyone be held accountable over 115 deaths?

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1 hr 5 min
February 13, 2021 5: Vagabond
The CTV story descends into controversy and farce: a fake engineer and New Zealand’s biggest homicide investigation.

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55 min
February 13, 2021 2: Call me Louis
Rescuers tunnel into the rubble and find what was left of a school cafeteria with 22 students trapped - dead and alive.
45 min

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On February 22, 2011, a devastating earthquake shook Christchurch, killing 185 people. One hundred and fifteen of those people were in the CTV building. The building should never have been built.