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Outlaw: the story of Richard Burgess
6:00 AM.In the 1860s Richard Burgess and his outlaw gang roved the West Coast, robbing and murdering dozens of people. Black Sheep investigates his life story and what drove him to a life of crime. Read more Audio
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Unjust: the story of James Prendergast
11:06 AM.In 1877 Chief Justice James Prendergast ruled the Treaty of Waitangi was "a simple nullity", in part because it was signed by "simple barbarians" and "savages". Those words have seen him condemned as… Read more Audio
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Poisoner: the story of Thomas Hall
6:00 AM."The most vile criminal ever to be tried in New Zealand" Thomas Hall's crimes scandalised New Zealand when it was revealed he had attempted to murder his wife in order to steal her family fortune. Read more Audio
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Radical: the story of Arthur Desmond
6:00 AM.Meet the New Zealand author of a book beloved by Neo-Nazi's, Satanists and White Supremacists. Bizarrely Arthur Desmond started off as a hard-core labour activist and supporter of Maori rights, but he… Read more Audio
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Abortionist: the story of Annie Aves
6:00 AM.Annie Aves was a famous abortionist from the 1930s. She was tried four times but each time the jury failed to reach a verdict. Read more Audio
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Nazi Hoax: the story of Syd Ross
7:00 AM.Nazi "assassins", mischievous con-artists and power hungry spies... Black Sheep investigates how a pair of hoaxers convinced the government that New Zealand had been infiltrated by Nazi agents. Read more Audio
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Epidemic: the story of Robert Logan
7:00 AM.Can you imagine if 20 per cent of the people you know suddenly died? How would you feel if the people in charge blocked doctors from helping them? For Samoans in 1918 this wasn't a hypothetical… Read more Audio
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Graverobber: the story of Andreas Reischek
9:00 AM.In the 1880s Austrian naturalist and ethnographer Andreas Reischek stole four mummified Maori corpses and secretly smuggled them out of the country so they could be displayed at a museum in Vienna. He… Read more Audio
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War profiteer: the story of Thomas Russell
2:30 PM.The worst kind of villain in New Zealand history was... an Auckland property speculator. Read more Audio
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Eugenics: the story of a really bad idea
9:00 AM.Did you know that after the First World War New Zealand established an official eugenics board? We tend to think of eugenics as being something the Nazis invented but really it was embraced all around… Read more Audio
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Warrior chief: the story of Hongi Hika
2:20 PM.Hongi Hika is a man with a difficult legacy. He's one of the greatest figures in New Zealand history, but he's also often held responsible for starting the Musket Wars. Read more Audio
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Faith fraud: the story of Arthur Worthington
2:15 PM.Arthur Worthington was a con artist who travelled the USA, marrying rich women then abandoning them and stealing all their money. Eventually with private detectives hot on his tail in 1890 he jumped… Read more Audio
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Bad cop: the story of John Cullen
2:10 PM.In 1916 John Cullen led a small army of police deep into the misty forests of Te Urewera to arrest the Tuhoe prophet Rua Kenana - his crime? Preaching that his followers shouldn't sign up to fight in… Read more Audio
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Broken Blossom: the story of Alice Parkinson
2:20 PM."Four shots, and then another one" - that's how the story of Alice Parkinson begins as the 25 year old waitress guns down her fiancé, Bert West, in the middle of Nelson street in Napier in 1915. The… Read more Audio