The Long Read from Stuff

The Long Read from Stuff

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The Long Read from Stuff episodes

September 04, 2021 Down the Covid Rabbit Hole
One intrepid reporter dives headlong into the world of Covid-19 conspiracies and emerges to tell the tale.

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34 min
August 27, 2021 The Trouble With Truby King
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?

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26 min
August 24, 2021 INTRODUCING: What's Wrong With You?
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/.

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46 min
August 21, 2021 After the Tampa
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.

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24 min
August 13, 2021 Forty years of pain: Remembering the 1981 Springbok Tour
Forty years on, protesters recall the heart-stopping moments and enduring consequences of the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand.

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20 min
August 07, 2021 The Awful Secret of Flight 149
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.

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26 min
July 30, 2021 The Battle of Aotearoa
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?

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21 min
July 23, 2021 Enduring: The Restoration of Te Urewera
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.

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47 min
July 15, 2021 The Nazi and the Mountain
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.

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26 min
July 08, 2021 The Trial of Maketū Wharetōtara
Nearly 180 years ago, at a central Auckland intersection, a Māori teenager was hanged before hundreds of settlers, changing the course of history.

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30 min

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The very best of Stuff's longform feature journalism, in audio form. One story, beautifully told, every week.