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Tick. Tick. — 83 episodes

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Introducing: QUARANTINE NATION

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Introducing Tova: Back for 2024 - Wairua, waiata and wero: On the ground(s) for Waitangi 2024

3

US Election Special: Tick Tick Goes to Washington

4

Election 2020: the aftermath

5

The Final Final Countdown

6

Everything you wanted to know about voting but were too afraid to ask

7

Cannabis and euthanasia – your burning referendum questions answered

8

Behind the scenes at the third - and greatest - Ardern v Collins debate

9

Special popup episode: hot takes from the Press Leaders Debate

10

Polls: the good, the bad and the ugly – and how National could win.

11

Debates and mistakes: Analysis of Ardern v Collins Part 2, plus Paul Goldsmith fronts up

12

Vile tweets and online hate: how to tackle abuse towards women in politics

13

What we learned from Ardern-Collins debate. And how’s that economy, eh?

14

Showdown! What to expect from the Jacinda Ardern v Judith Collins debates

15

MPs behaving badly: Parliament's toxic culture and how to deal with it

16

Extended interview: Green Party co-leaders Marama Davidson and James Shaw

17

Check mates: Do our politicians need fact-checking in a post-truth era?

18

The great Kiwi obsession: What the world thinks of us

19

The subtle – and not-so-subtle – art of political communication

20

The things you never knew about elections in NZ

21

Masks, masks, masks, masks, masks

22

Foreign interference and NZ’s 2020 election

23

Extended interview: David Seymour

24

QAnon and covid conspiracies – what have they got to do with the NZ election?

25

Judith Collins extended interview

26

Here we go again: alert levels rising

27

Does sex matter?

28

Extended interview: Labour leader Jacinda Ardern

29

Battle of the books

30

Splits and Divisions: What really matters to voters – and how party preference influences that

31

Here’s what’s happening

32

Vaccination nation: is NZ prepared for its part in the biggest immunisation programme ever?

33

New York, New York: what it was like to live in a coronavirus epicentre

34

The view from China: journalist Anna Fifield reports from Beijing

35

Professor Rod Jackson on why the border bungle was actually a good thing – no, really.

36

They’re growing it here: the Kiwis cultivating SARS-CoV-2 in the lab

37

The silent carriers: Siouxsie Wiles explains what we know about asymptomatic cases

38

Second wave warning: how vulnerable is NZ?

39

Sanity break: how to keep your head in post-lockdown NZ

40

Why is NZ’s Covid tracing app so lame?

41

Island time: making the case for a Pacific bubble

42

What does the chief say? Extended interview with the PM’s chief science advisor

43

Hot mess: So, what about the other global emergency we all forgot about?

44

Pimp my bus-ride: how coronavirus will change the way we commute forever

45

The endemic blues: What if the world’s stuck with the virus for good?

46

All the Zoom’s a stage: New Zealander of the Year Jennifer Ward-Lealand, on how to act in the face of the Covid-19 crisis

47

'We dodged a bullet' – Extended interview with Winston Peters

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NZ rising: how small states could be the winners in the post-Covid global order

49

Wait, was lockdown even legal?

50

Never again! Will contact tracing save us from a return to lockdown?

51

Cheers! How lockdown could change our drinking forever

52

Rockstar to cot-case – how can the economy come back?

53

Trans-Tasman bubbles and mathematical models

54

Hilary Barry: Keeping up a brave face

55

Party poopers: Will Level 3 get-togethers get us stuck in lockdown?

56

Special Episode: Simon Bridges extended interview

57

Who’s getting rich out of coronavirus (and how)?

58

Grounded: Will we ever fly again?

59

Claiming immunity: Should Covid-19 survivors get special treatment?

60

The way we were: why we’re already nostalgic about lockdown

61

Australia v New Zealand: who’s doing it best?

62

I Am Patient Thirty-Seven: Extended interview with Jenene Crossan, NZ’s Instagram-famous Covid-19 patient

63

Going viral: a history of conspiracy theories and bad ideas

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Still stuck inside: how to help your family cope

65

Special Episode: Helen Clark extended interview

66

Bubble trouble part II: understanding the new-look Level 3

67

KiwiSaver catches a cold: your money in the Covid-19 era

68

Over-rated? Why councillors are meeting in secret

69

Special episode: Jacinda Ardern extended interview

70

The Great Kiwi BS-detector: sifting fact from fiction

71

Is it time for spy apps?

72

When can I get my vaccine?

73

How does it feel to have the virus?

74

Bubble trouble: confusion over isolation

75

Tiger King economy: what we’re watching during lockdown

76

Chemical romance: Coronavirus’s fatal attraction

77

Tinny house tales

78

Houseparty-pooper: Social norms and contact tracing

79

What a cluster: lessons from 1918

80

Know your enemy: Remind us, what exactly is the coronavirus?

81

Emergency measures, and a Māori response

82

Science matters: Who has the ear of the Prime Minister?

83

Go home, stay home: New Zealand heads to coronavirus shutdown