3 Nov 2018

Black Sheep: controversial characters from New Zealand history

From The Podcast Hour, 12:30 pm on 3 November 2018
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Black Sheep logo Photo: RNZ

'Black Sheep' is back for a new season, with William Ray telling more stories about colourful and controversial characters from New Zealand history.

Over the next few weeks there's going to be a veritable rogues' gallery of Japanese spies, con artists, and an alleged pirate with a great name...Bully Hayes!

We play part of the first episode of a two-part story called 'Headhunter: the story of Horatio Robley', produced and presented for RNZ by William Ray.

Episode 2 and the rest of the Horatio Robley story will be out next week, and new stories will be released each week for the next 6 weeks on Jesse Mulligan's afternoon show at 2pm on Mondays, at rnz.co.nz, or you can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

And if you are new to the series and fancy a taster, William suggests starting with the episodes about Cyrus Haley, Arthur Worthington and Alice Parkinson.

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