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History of Aotearoa New Zealand Podcast

In this “unashamedly homegrown” podcast we tell the story of our islands from the time before people

Episodes

Total: 160

The final episode on our series on Speight's where we see a manager rise to the challenge presented

Things once again start looking up for Speight's as they get their flashy new bottling house up and

The last couple of decades for Speight's had been rough. War, death and tragedy have been common the

We see Speight's start to go into a major decline as pressures from the war, death of major figures

The story of Speight's continues! The prohibitionists are still at it and their making some pretty g

We continue our story of Speight's brewery, seeing the rise of the prohibition movement. We talk abo

After going some of the background, we are now ready to begin the story of Speight's properly! We wi

We continue with the introduction to our series on Speight's as we focus in on Dunedin specifically,

86 - Speight's: Prologue

2022/6/3

I'm very excited to share with you the first in a series of nine episodes on the history of one of D

A dramatic retelling of the Rotorua love story of Hinemoa and TutanekaiCheck out the website and sho

84 - Kia Mau

2022/5/8

To end our series on haka we talk all about the most famous haka, Ka mate. Detailing the life of its

83 - Ka Rite

2022/4/23

Today we continue talking all about haka, what it is, its social importance and that sort of thing!C

82 - Taringa Whakarongo

2022/4/10

The first of a three part series talking all about haka! What it is, what it means and hopefully cle

81 - Games for Kids

2022/3/27

Today we talk about more simple games that were played by kids, some that even resemble a few that y

80 - Board Games

2022/3/13

Pretty self explanatory from the title but today we are talking all about board games! Come and have

Today we talk to Sarah Gallagher, a researcher who has spent a good number of years looking into Dun

78 - Big Brain Time

2022/2/13

Today we are moving from games involving the body to ones involving the mind! Some are similar to We

77 - Working Up a Sweat

2022/1/30

Today we are once again looking at physical games including some more ball sports but also stilts, s

Today we are talking more about sweat inducing, physical games that Māori did and still do play! We

75 - Go Sports Team Go!

2022/1/3

We are back bright an early in 2022 to continue our journey through Aotearoa's history! Today we beg