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: 167

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

Today we talk about something we found out on the Otago Peninsula, the place where Aotearoa's first

The first of two special episodes themed around Dunedin! Today, we talk about the steepest street in

It's Bird of the Year time again! This year the pekapeka-tou-roa, New Zealand long tailed bat, was a

We have been nominated in the NZ Podcast Awards and we need votes to win the Listener Choice Categor

71 - Rupe, the Kind Brother

2021/10/10

Today I tell the story Hina-Uri, who you may remember is the woman whose husband was turned into a d

70 - Food, Glorious Food

2021/9/26

Today it's just a random mix of stuff about how various plants were cooked and eaten, such as pūhā,

69 - Nice

2021/9/12

Moving away from cooking slightly, we talk about how birds in pre-European Aotearoa were caught and

68 - Feast for the Mouth

2021/8/30

We talk all about how Māori were cooking with some more in depth discussion on hangi, what feasts we

67 - We Hongry

2021/8/1

This episode we start talking about how Pre-European Māori were cooking their food and constructing

66 - Stories of Fish

2021/7/18

Today we have a few different stories about fish! Featuring the rangatira of whales, Pelorus Jack an

We finish up our look into fishing talking about freshwater species such as tuna (eels) and īnanga (

We talk some more about nets! This time it's bag nets and set trap nets as well as some cool info on

63 - Casting a Wide Net

2021/6/7

We continue discussing nets with scoops nets, focussing mostly on the seven different ways to catch