Podcasts
Podcast Critic: Paul Bushnell
Paul Bushnell is talking today about how different clichés are subverted by great storytelling: Fragments, an RNZ series about the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and Carrier from the USA - what would… Audio
Podcast Critic: Molly Jones
Today Molly gives her views on James Acaster's Perfect Sounds podcast and I Swear I Never. Audio
Australian prison podcast: Johanna Bell and Rocket Renae
Birds Eye View, a podcast made by some of the 80 female inmates inside the woman's section of the Darwin Correctional Centre in Australia's Northern Territory is proving an audio hit. It recently took… Audio
Podcast Critic: Denise Garland
Today RNZ's Midday supervising producer, Denise Garland, looks at two brand new podcasts. Collapse is a podcast from Stuff, all about the Christchurch earthquakes in the lead up the to 10th… Audio
Podcast Critic: Ellie Jay
Today Ellie Jay reviews Grounded with Louis Theroux and Intrigue Mayday. Audio
Paul Bushnell on Trumpian podcasts
Paul Bushnell is talking today about two different views of the Trump presidency: Trumpcast and How it Happened. Audio
Podcast Critic: Katy Atkin
Katy Atkin reviews locally made, He'll Be Right podcast and a chilling US production, The Apology Line. Audio
Katy Atkin's summer podcast picks
Katy Atkin shares her top 5 summer listening podcasts: It's A Wonderful lie About a Girl Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Questions Stuff the British Stole - ABC Heavyweight - Season 5 Audio
Podcast Critic Paul Bushnell
Paul Bushnell is talking today about two USA podcasts exploring different aspects of contemporary culture - history and tv drama - with very different levels of success. The Authority on His Dark… Audio
Molly Jones podcast picks
Today Molly reviews the Netflix series The Big Film Buffet. Audio
Denise Garland's podcast picks
Denise reviews the ABC's Days Like These, Reply All from Gimlet Media and Brought to You By, from Business Insider. Audio
RNZ podcasts make it to Apple's Top 10 for NZ in 2020
RNZ's head of podcasts Tim Watkin stops by the studio today to talk to Jesse about the success they've had in 2020 with huge numbers of NZers downloading their series. Audio
Ellie Jay's podcast picks
Critic Ellie Jay reviews Bed of Lies, Pin Drop and I Saw What You Did. Audio
Podcast Critic: Katy Atkin
Katy Atkin reviews Coming Home by the Spinoff and Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen. Audio
Molly Jones Podcast Picks
Molly Jones reviews Whistleblower - the story of the NBA betting scandal. Audio
Podcast Critic: Denise Garland
Today's RNZ's own Denise Garland reviews podcasts, No Such Thing As a Fish, Unladylike and The Food Programme from BBC 4. Audio
Ellie Jay's podcast picks
Critic Ellie Jay reviews four titles - The Orange Tree, Changes, I Secretly Recorded My Boyfriend and The Baron of Botox. Audio
Poet Mohamed Hassan: Islamophobia, Aotearoa and me
Mohamed Hassan is an award-winning journalist and poet based in Auckland. Public Enemy, his 2016 podcast series about the rise of Islamophobia post 9/11, won Gold at the 2017 New York Festival Radio… Audio
Katy Atkin's podcast picks
Stuff's senior content producer Katy Atkins reviews Murder in House Two - Michael Epstein - Crowd Network and Canary - The Washington Post Investigates. Audio
Natasha Frost's podcast picks
Critic Natasha Frost reviews You're Wrong About: Princess Diana, hosted by Sarah Marshall and Mike Hobbes and Nice White Parents from the New York Times and Serial. Audio