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The shady, controversial and sometimes downright villainous characters of NZ history. Join William Ray as he explores history through the lens of Kiwi dirtbags in NZ's most awarded podcast.
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BONUS: Kelly Tarlton's Final Treasure Hunt
We're ducking into your feed to bring you an episode of a new RNZ podcast: Kelly Tartlon's Final Treasure Hunt. This story has everything! Kidnapping,...
Spy Scandal: the story of Bill Sutch
On 27 September 1974 New Zealanders woke to the news Dr Bill Sutch, a famous economist, historian, and former senior government official had been arre...
Bird Bandit: the story of Freddie Angell
Freddie Angell was New Zealand's most notorious wildlife smuggler. His repeated attempts at stealing and exporting native wildlife in the 1990s, inclu...
Musket Missionary: the story of Thomas Kendall (Part 2)
Early NZ missionary Thomas Kendall arrived in London in 1820 with the Ngāpuhi Rangatira Hongi Hika. He would return to Aotearoa a year later with the...
Musket Missionary: the story of Thomas Kendall (Part 1)
Early Missionary Thomas Kendall facilitated the sale of hundreds of muskets to Ngāpuhi Māori, helping to enable the bloodiest wars in New Zealand hist...
Beastly Truth: the story of George Howe
In the 1900s a series of lurid headlines were published in the New Zealand Truth about George Howe, a "Beastly Brothel-keeper" who pimped out underage...
Highwayman: the story of Robert Wallath
In 1892 a masked figure in a bizarre uniform began a 15 month crime spree, robbing people at gunpoint in and around New Plymouth. When he was finally...
Anzac Massacre: the story of Surafend (Part 3)
"As morning dawned we stood and watched / That devastated scene / Where but a single yesterday / Had flourished Surafeen." In the final episode of a t...
Anzac Massacre: the story of Surafend (Part 2)
"They went out to this village, and they went through it with the bayonet.” In the second of a three-part series, RNZ's Black Sheep inves...
Anzac Massacre: the story of Surafend (Part 1)
“There was a time when I was proud of you men of the Anzac Mounted Division. I am proud of you no longer.” In the first of a three-part series, RNZ's...
Trailer: Black Sheep Season 8
Black Sheep Season 8 is just around the corner with a whole new cast of controversial, villainous, or simply misunderstood figures from New Zealand hi...
Nellie's Baby: the story of New Zealand's Mental Institutions
The last of the so-called 'lunatic asylums' closed only 20 years ago. They were founded on ideas of paternalism and social progress and survived on th...
Double Life: the story of Judge Frederick Maning (Part 2)
From the 1840s onward, Frederick Maning would become an increasingly bitter and angry man who demonised Māori who opposed colonisation. So what explai...
Double Life: the story of Judge Frederick Maning (Part 1)
Frederick Maning was one of the first Europeans to settle in Aotearoa, he married a high-ranking Ngāpuhi woman, and wrote two books filled with romant...
Gender Bender: the story of Hjelmar Dannevill
In the 1910s, Hjelmar Dannevill wowed high society with gripping tales of adventure as a medical researcher and journalist. But suspicions over her fa...
Death Ray: the story of Victor Penny
In 1935, a series of extraordinary newspaper articles claimed a backyard inventor called Victor Penny was trying to build a Death Ray for the New Zeal...
Scientific Racist: the story of Alfred Newman
Dr Alfred Newman may be the most notorious scientific racist in New Zealand history. His 1882 paper "A study of the causes leading to the extinction o...
Erased: the story of Charles Mackay (Part 2)
In the second of a two-part episode on Charles Mackay Black Sheep investigates the mysteries surrounding the Whanganui Mayor's attempted murder of D'A...
Erased: the story of Charles Mackay (Part 1)
For more than 50 years the name of Mayor Charles Mackay was all but forbidden in Whanganui. In 1920 Mackay shot a man through the chest after he threa...
Black Sheep Season 7 Trailer
RNZ multi award-winning podcast Black Sheep returns on May 26th with a new cast of mysterious misfits, violent villains and controversial characters....
Killer Conductor: the story of Eric Mareo (Part 2)
When flamboyant orchestra conductor Eric Mareo was convicted of murder for a second time, the judge raised grave concerns about the verdict with the A...
Killer Conductor: the story of Eric Mareo (Part 1)
Kiwis rose to their feet and cheered when the flamboyant orchestra conductor Eric Mareo was found guilty of murdering his wife in 1936. But 85 years l...
Escape Artist: the story of George Wilder
George Wilder is an accidental folk hero. He never sought the spotlight, but his three escapes from prison in the 1960s and his daring evasion of the...
Slaver: the story of Thomas McGrath
In 1863 half the population of a small Tongan island called 'Ata boarded a ship captained by Thomas McGrath. They were never seen again. Black Sheep i...
Governor: the story of Sir George Grey (Part 2)
In the second of Black Sheep's two part episode on Sir George Grey, Aotearoa is launched into the worst conflicts of the New Zealand Wars and George G...
Governor: the story of Sir George Grey (Part 1)
Sir George Grey led Aotearoa into some of the worst conflicts of the New Zealand Wars. But at the beginning of his career many saw him as a defender o...
Black Sheep Season Six Trailer
Black Sheep returns for a Sixth Season!
Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Baby Farmer: the story of Minnie Dean
Minnie Dean is the only woman to be judicially executed in New Zealand history. For years she was portrayed as a cold-blooded killer who murdered babi...
Machine Gun Murder: the story of Bassett Road (Part 2)
The case of the Bassett Road machinegun murders breaks wide open, two key witnesses come forward with critical information. But the most interesting p...
Machine Gun Murder: the story of Bassett Road (Part 1)
It's 1963 and two bodies are found in a house at Bassett Road in Remuera. Detectives are shocked to discover they were killed by a submachine-gun. New...
Madam: the story of Flora MacKenzie
Flora MacKenzie is one of the most colourful characters in New Zealand history: A hard drinking, hard talking brothel owner from the 1960s and 70s who...
Invasive: the story of Stewart Smith
In the 1960s Stewart Smith began a one-man crusade, releasing thousands of invasive fish into New Zealand's rivers, lakes and streams. Why? Well it ha...
Colonial Mastermind: the story of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (Part 2)
In part two of Black Sheep's series on Edward Gibbon Wakefield we see theories of "systematic" and "humanitarian" colonisation run into bitter realiti...
Colonial Mastermind: the story of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (Part 1)
Edward Gibbon Wakefield used to be known as "The Father of New Zealand." But modern historians have pointed to the disastrous impact of his colonial p...
Raider: the story of Felix von Luckner
Felix von Luckner was a child aristocrat who ran away to sea, he captained the last square-rigged sailing ship ever to serve in combat, he sailed 3,00...
The Story Of Statues
In this special episode of Black Sheep, William Ray looks at the history and controversy of historical statues in New Zealand.
Statues have beco...
The Aotearoa History Show!
The story of New Zealand and its people, from its geological origins to modern day. Hosted by William Ray and Leigh-Marama McLachlan, with animation b...
The story of White Supremacy
In this special episode of Black Sheep, produced in the aftermath of the 2019 Christchurch Mosque Shootings, William Ray looks at the history of white...
Death Sentence: the story of NZ's executions
The death penalty has started wars, won elections, outraged the population and ruined lives. Join William Ray for this live podcast recording at the B...
Swashbuckler: the story of Bully Hayes
Bully Hayes is famous as a charismatic "pirate" of the South Pacific. But most stories gloss over his more heinous crimes: Slavery, sexual assault and...