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The Long Read from Stuff — 197 episodes

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Trailer: Quarantine Nation

2

How not to walk Te Araroa

3

How a horse hoof solved a murder

4

Introducing: TFN - The F#$%ing News with Paddy Gower

5

The scars and secrets of forced adoptions

6

‘I wish he had hit me’

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Why you should care about Lucy Blakiston

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Seditious women and other troublemakers

9

Mums shine at the Olympics

10

A completed life

11

Breathing room

12

The solar farms and the bird factory

13

Inside big biscuit

14

A murder in toy town

15

Slippery Sam, the highwayman and other strange NZ criminals

16

'Lord of the Manor' Noel Edmonds

17

Frankton: The future Ponsonby of Hamilton

18

NZ's dreamlike international fair

19

The Cyclone and the Wedding

20

A wife's pain

21

I thought I was going to die

22

Nicola Willis on power, sacrifice and her mischievous streak

23

Making coffins isn’t a childhood

24

A chosen end to a wonderful life

25

Being a funny guy is a serious business

26

The kiwi music act going global

27

Cancer care's postcode lottery

28

The power of equine therapy

29

Our crumbling cemeteries

30

The Mysterious Murder of David Robinson

31

NZ's baby scoop era

32

Meet the Monarchists

33

The Kings Arms

34

Alleged Abuse in the Sacristy Room

35

Odin and Lorazepam

36

New Zealand's screen identity

37

Les Mills: The McDonald’s of Fitness

38

The reality of NZ’s nicotine addiction

39

The hidden struggles of homeless women in Aotearoa

40

A lonely death at Horseshoe Lake

41

Death of a highway

42

National treasure Kim Hill

43

The Search for the Sydenham Slasher

44

Anatomy of an arrest

45

Amanda Palmer's NZ Experience

46

Double Standard

47

Not under your jurisdiction

48

Scumlord or housing crisis hero?

49

Making Tracks

50

Shipwreck, hungry ghosts, and a bitter controversy

51

Justice for Angela Blackmoore

52

Axing relationship education

53

Where your food scraps go

54

I nailed Tamihere

55

How I escaped a cult

56

Dilworth's internal memos

57

Ikea’s interior design gurus vs my home

58

The characters of public meetings

59

I still have nightmares

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60

Kisses in the carwash

61

The Changing State of Social Housing

62

The New Zealanders and the genocide

63

A prickly problem

64

It's part of the game

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65

Blind Ambition

66

Forsaken

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67

Peak Barber

68

Aotearoa's only indigenous dog

69

The mystery of the Berserk expedition

70

The One He Never Forgot

71

The Hoarder's Treasure

72

In her mind - The trial of Lauren Dickason

73

A Solitary Murder

74

The wonderful world of pedigree guinea pigs

75

The Kiwi Indiana Jones who fought Nazis and hunted for treasure

76

The bird park, the conspiracy, and the council

77

The Short Game

78

The Last Person Standing

79

The Price of Fish

80

Fixing Lucy

81

The Heist

82

Kicking and Screaming

83

Big Brother is Watching (and Listening)

84

The double-lives of Corallee Collins-Annan

85

Too Bland for Bond

86

Duckie, Drakie and a bizarre legal saga

87

The Electric Lake

88

Lessons from Antarctica on how to get through winter

89

The Great Kea Cull

90

Hope and the Loafers Lodge Fire

91

Did his partner try to kill him?

92

The Collapse of New Freeland

93

The full story of the Mama Hooch rapists

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94

The Māori soldiers of Colditz

95

The unchecked power of strip clubs

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The Perfect Storm

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Convicted killer insists he was framed

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98

How to find love in a hundred dates

99

Barbie: Feminist foe or marketing masterpiece?

100

Making history - single, gay and a surrogate parent

101

The Kiwi fashion designer and the duplicate dresses

102

The Infernal Reo Machine

103

I was seeing six people

104

Our plastic love affair

105

The 'madman' and the road worker

106

Would you kill if he told you to?

107

The Last Flight of the Dragonfly

108

Forgetting Aaron Gilmore

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109

Lucky Man

110

The Pā Wars

111

Kai stands still for nobody: Can you be a real Māori and pursue a vegan diet?

112

Why Wellington Should No Longer Be The Capital of New Zealand

113

Finding Ben

114

SPECIAL EPISODE: The Short Read - Home by Bernard Steeds

115

Alfred Hitchcock's Kiwi Holiday

116

The Conductor

117

This Charming Man

118

The 'Strategic Hunters'

119

Out of the Darkness

120

SPECIAL EPISODE: True Story - My Boss is a Robot

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121

Jo Vs Cancer

122

Jane Campion - Always Fearless

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123

The Race With No End

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124

What Happened to Baby Penny-Tui

125

The Bully Buster

126

Willy de Wit Talks Drugs, Strokes and Depression

127

The Conundrum of Peter Ellis

128

After the Fall

129

Road to Redemption

130

The Bard and the Dame

131

Fire and Fury

132

What Lies Beneath

133

Miscarriage of Justice: The Tragic Case of Alan Hall

134

Melanie Lynskey's Moment

135

The Liberator

136

SPECIAL EPISODE: The Thrill of The Chase

137

Killer Blow - The Kirsty Bentley Mystery

138

Your Affectionate Wife

139

The One Who Got Away

140

The World's Best Liar

141

Show Me The Money

142

See No Evil – Episode 2 of 2

143

See No Evil – Episode 1 of 2

144

Tortured Soul

145

The Heist

146

The Media and the Megachurch

147

The Battle of Wainuiōmata

148

The murder that ripped a town apart

149

Cabaret Confessions

150

The Disappearing River

151

The Secret History of New Zealand's Indiana Jones

152

The Vanishing of Allan Woodford

153

The Short Game

154

Premmies: Raising too-tiny humans

155

Framed for murder: Episode 2 of 2

156

Framed for murder: Episode 1 of 2

157

Guy Hatchard and the Antivax Empire

158

The Gospel According to Ruby Tui

159

The Murder of Lisa Blakie - Lone Kill or Gang Hit?

160

The Great Wellington Flat Hunt

161

The Killing of James Dorgan

162

Billy the Hunted One

163

The Berserk Incident

164

Punching Above His Weight

165

The Strange Case of the Christchurch Horse Fiend

166

A Solitary Murder

167

Metoo and the New Zealand Drama School

168

Safety on the Pae

169

The Madness and Genius of Tarras International Airport

170

Fried Chicken: A Love Story

171

The Sins of the Father

172

What Happened to Carolina Lewis?

173

Still Down the Covid Rabbit Hole

174

Big Brother is Watching (and Listening)

175

The Flying Phoenix

176

Why has James Bond never been to New Zealand?

177

Love Under Fire

178

The Mystery of Mrs Muir

179

The Whaanga Sisters

180

The Hoarder's Treasure

181

Down the Covid Rabbit Hole

182

The Trouble With Truby King

183

INTRODUCING: What's Wrong With You?

184

After the Tampa

185

Forty years of pain: Remembering the 1981 Springbok Tour

186

The Awful Secret of Flight 149

187

The Battle of Aotearoa

188

Enduring: The Restoration of Te Urewera

189

The Nazi and the Mountain

190

The Trial of Maketū Wharetōtara

191

Kei roto i ō tātou toto – It’s in our Blood

192

The Revenge of the Zombie Rivers

193

Peak Barber

194

Bunny Boilers

195

Life on the Edge of the Olympics

196

Plan B and the 'Infodemic'.

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