Episodes

  • Introducing: Untold Pacific History

    Introducing: Untold Pacific History
    May 3 2021
    A dynamic & often provocative account of New Zealand's relationship with the Pacific & the broad impact it's had on New Zealand's own history & relationship with Pacific peoples in Aotearoa today.
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    4 mins
  • Waking Up to the Dawn Raids (Aotearoa)

    Waking Up to the Dawn Raids (Aotearoa)
    May 17 2021
    Of the many events affecting Pasifika people in Aotearoa, the Dawn Raids story is overdue to be told.
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    37 mins
  • White Man's Law (Niue)

    White Man's Law (Niue)
    May 24 2021
    What led Commissioner Larsen, the New Zealand administrator of Niue in the 1950s, to be murdered in his bed by three locals hell-bent on justice and revenge?
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    39 mins
  • Bullets on Black Saturday (Samoa)

    Bullets on Black Saturday (Samoa)
    May 31 2021
    This episode examines the fatal consequences of New Zealand's rule in Samoa, and the key events that led to the rise of Samoa's 'Mau' resistance movement.
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    33 mins
  • The Cursed Cook Islands Hotel (Rarotonga)

    The Cursed Cook Islands Hotel (Rarotonga)
    Jun 7 2021
    This is a story of indigenous land rights gone awry, a makutu from an aggrieved family and the failed business ventures of an infamous 'haunted hotel' in Rarotonga.
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    29 mins
  • Coup Culture (Fiji)

    Coup Culture (Fiji)
    Jun 14 2021
    This episode examines how and why Indian populations were brought to Fiji, and how the inequities under the colonial government's Girmit system, created a society of instability and countless coups.
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    40 mins
  • Introducing: Untold Pacific History S2

    Introducing: Untold Pacific History S2
    Apr 3 2024
    Told in three separate stories, season two of Untold Pacific History shines a light on key events in the Niue, Samoa and Rarotonga that have been little told in Aotearoa.
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    1 min
  • The Forgotten Soldiers of Niue

    The Forgotten Soldiers of Niue
    Apr 9 2024
    This is the little known story of The Forgotten Soldiers of Niue: 150 men plucked from their island paradise and sent 17,000 kms away to the cold frontlines of France during World War I. The Niuean soldiers never made it to the frontline, however. They instead died en route with the introduction of diseases they had never been exposed to.
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    32 mins