Podcast Episodes

Tokoroa (Part 2)

Season 1 Episode 5

The Tokoroa story is the jobs story. Shamubeel meets a number of young people who are not in employment or training to try to find out why the town's…

8 hours ago

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Balclutha (Part 3)

Season 1 Episode 4

40 years ago, the reforms of Rogernomics blindsided many businesses in South Otago as the New Zealand economy transitioned from one where local busin…

1 week ago

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Balclutha (Part 2)

Season 1 Episode 3

Shamubeel is back in Balclutha, trying to understand why some of the financial statistics seem to be tracking in the right direction, finally. And wh…

2 weeks ago

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Tokoroa (Part 1)

Season 1 Episode 2

Tokoroa is a new town which sprung up because South Waikato is able to produce some of the fastest growing pine trees in the world. Forestry meant th…

3 weeks ago

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Balclutha (Part 1)

Season 1 Episode 1

Economist Shamubeel Eaqub recounts how the term 'zombie towns' created an outcry in rural New Zealand. Now, a decade on, he wants to understand if an…

3 weeks ago

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Introducing: Zombie Towns: Everything I Missed

Season 1

Economist Shamubeel ‘zombie towns’ Eaqub travels to Balclutha and Tokoroa to find out what’s really going on in heartland New Zealand, analysing how …

3 weeks, 4 days ago

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