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Mercy mistress, mercy: The strange death of Peter Plumley-Walker
Season 2 Episode 1
In 1989, a jetboat skipper spots something snagged on a submerged tree, just downstream from the picturesque Huka Falls. It’s the body of a 51-year-o…
8 hours ago
From the archives: an episode of Out of My Mind
Season 1
Season two of Long Story Short is sooooooooo close – but in the meantime, check out this episode from a series Adam and Eugene made for Stuff a few y…
2 weeks ago
Inter-season special: Dame Juliet Gerrard interview
Season 1
The countdown to new Long Story Short eps continues, but in the meantime Eugene and Adam caught up with Dame Juliet Gerrard, former chief science adv…
4 weeks ago
From the archives: a bonus ep from our 2022 podcast True Story
Season 1
We’re busy making season two of Long Story Short, but in the meantime, check out this episode from a series we made a few years back when we were wor…
1 month, 1 week ago
Sounds Like Murder: The Scott Watson case (Part 2)
Season 1 Episode 7
Scott Watson has spent more than two decades in prison for the murders of Olivia Hope and Ben Smart – crimes he has always denied committing.
In part …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Sounds Like Murder: The Scott Watson case (Part 1)
Season 1 Episode 6
The disappearance of Olivia Hope and Ben Smart from a party on New Year's Eve, 1997, sparked one of New Zealand's biggest and most controversial poli…
2 months, 1 week ago
Censors Gone Wild: The movie that broke the purity police's brain
Season 1 Episode 5
In 1967, a film was released that was so shocking, so arousing, and so full of rude words that the NZ censor banned men and women from sitting togeth…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Troy Story: An obsessed Kiwi gamer's doomed kidnap mission
Season 1 Episode 4
In June 2018, a man dressed in black was shot in the neck and left bleeding on a manicured lawn in the quiet town of Goochland, Virginia. His passpor…
3 months ago
Mikaere Oketopa: The "killer" who was never there (Part 2)
Season 1 Episode 3
Michael October, aka Mikaere Oketopa, has been in jail for years for a crime that he swears he didn't commit. Then one night, in a whirlwind of bomb…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Mikaere Oketopa: The "killer" who was never there (Part 1)
Season 1 Episode 2
After a 22-year-old woman is found murdered in the grounds of a school, police swiftly ID three key suspects.
There’s just one problem: one of them sa…
4 months ago