Pacific Legends Unleashed

Pacific Legends Unleashed

By Ben Pennycuick and Dan CullenHistory
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Pacific Legends Unleashed episodes

  • Amelia Earhart (Part 2)

    In the second and final episode about Amelia Earhart, we reach the point of the story everyone’s been waiting for. That’s right - she’s about to start throwing oranges. Dan then finishes the topic off by solving the mystery once and for all, unleashing an evidence-based analysis of the theories surrounding one of history’s great vanishing acts.

    1 hr 3 min
  • Amelia Earhart (Part 1)

    We’re back to Unleash ™️ the story of Amelia Earhart into your earballs. In this episode, a young Amelia discovers the thrill of hospital bed pans. And flying. Dan then takes us on a whirlwind tour from the mean streets of Rotorua to a paupers’ mass grave. It’s a story-within-a-story, describing the life of New Zealand’s Amelia Earhart, Jean Batten.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Edmund Hillary (Part 3)

    The final episode focusing on Ed Hillary’s life sees the big man wrestle with personal tragedy, and a sudden aversion to life at high altitude. He somehow still finds the time and energy to go to the South Pole, the North Pole, and attempt to navigate one of the world’s mightiest rivers on a jet boat. And hunt yetis. Again.

    1 hr 12 min
  • Edmund Hillary (Part 2)

    Our second episode in our Ed Hillary series shines the spotlight on the Sherpa people, and Tenzing Norgay in particular. Tenzing was a technically brilliant climber, with superhuman strength at altitude — and was the inventor of the thirst trap.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Edmund Hillary (Part 1)

    We’ve unleashed a new legend - New Zealand’s most beloved beekeeper, Edmund Hillary. In this episode we discuss his early life and climbing experiences in NZ, rising through the ranks to secure a spot on the British team taking a crack at Everest.

    1 hr 9 min
  • Charles Upham (Part 3)

    Episode 3 has finally been unleashed, and sees Charlie adjust to life as a prisoner of war, where he shows approximately no respect to his German captors.

    This is the last episode focused on Charles Upham, so get in quick before we somehow sell out.

    1 hr 2 min
  • Charles Upham (Part 2)

    After his one-armed, donkey-borne, grenade and shit-slinging heroics in Greece, the Allies turn Charlie around and aim him at Rommel’s forces in the African desert.

    Good luck, Germans.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Charles Upham (Part 1)

    Charles Upham was just your average Kiwi bloke who loved farming and hated Nazis. They were a dime a dozen in 1939.

    Only one would win the highest military honour in the British Empire. Twice.

    1 hr 8 min
  • Scott & Amundsen (Part 3)

    The race to the Pole is underway. Who will get there first?

    The experienced polar explorer who has learned from rigorous training and the wisdom of experts, including the indigenous peoples of the arctic?

    OR…

    The guy who knew how to be attractive when he needed to be, but didn’t like going outside when it was cold or windy?

    The ONLY way to find out is to unleash Episode Three straight into your ear holes.

    1 hr 9 min
  • Scott & Amundsen (Part 2)

    Roald Amundsen prepares for his trip North, until a newspaper headline changes everything, and he decides to ruin Robert Scott’s life.

    The race is on, and there can only be one winner. And that winner probably won’t be the one who takes horses to Antarctica.

    1 hr 5 min

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We explore stories from the Pacific. Interesting people from history and stories that we think should be told.