True Story

By: Stuff Audio
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  • Summary

  • From the makers of Stuff’s smash hit The Commune, comes a new current affairs podcast series. Each episode, Eugene Bingham and Adam Dudding take their microphones on the road to bring you a true New Zealand story: sometimes quirky, sometimes serious – always surprising.
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Episodes
  • Introducing: The Trial - Philip Polkinghorne

    Introducing: The Trial - Philip Polkinghorne
    Aug 2 2024
    On Easter Monday 2021, police were called to the home of a successful professional couple in the affluent Auckland suburb of Remuera. They found the body of Pauline Hanna. In his emergency call, her husband, Philip Polkinghorne, said she killed herself. Sixteen months later he was charged with her murder. As this podcast is released, he's currently on trial at the High Court in Auckland. Stuff's groundbreaking series returns to take you inside the Polkinghorne trial: Hear the witnesses, follow the evidence, wait for the verdict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 mins
  • 6: The Great Macron War

    6: The Great Macron War
    Dec 17 2022
    Adam and Eugene put on their war-historian hats to investigate one of the strangest cases from our nation’s internet past: the Great Macron War of 2018. Why did the normally genteel editors of Wikipedia’s New Zealand pages lose their cool – and why did some start to turn on each other?It’s a tale of online scuffles, cultural misunderstandings, robots … and a secret agent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    51 mins
  • 5: Cheryl Scott versus the people

    5: Cheryl Scott versus the people
    Dec 9 2022
    When Ollie signed the lease for his flat, he also signed up to a bizarre and unforgettable challenge – life as a tenant of landlord Cheryl Scott. It’s a tale of rogue coat hangers, interminable phone calls and unpaid bills. Oh – and some toilet bowl photography. This True Story is written and presented by guest host Ethan Te Ora. For further coverage, see www.stuff.co.nz/national/130628181/vexatious-landlord-cheryl-scott-the-scion-of-a-property-empire-or-a-fantasist To hear more great Stuff podcasts, check out stuff.co.nz/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    51 mins
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