Episodes

  • Season 2 | Episode 3: Papa Tom Davis, From the Seas to the Stars (Rarotonga)

    Season 2 | Episode 3: Papa Tom Davis, From the Seas to the Stars (Rarotonga)
    Apr 23 2024
    Papa Tom, an extraordinary Cook Islander who smashed new frontiers in space and the ocean in a life that spanned many fields of work.
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    35 mins
  • Season 2 | Episode 2: I’Iga Pisa, Samoa’s Unsung Hero

    Season 2 | Episode 2: I’Iga Pisa, Samoa’s Unsung Hero
    Apr 16 2024
    The life story of I'iga Pisa, an independence activist who sailed hundreds of kilometers in a small canoe to escape exile from Samoa.
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    49 mins
  • Season 2 | Episode 1: The Forgotten Soldiers of Niue

    Season 2 | Episode 1: The Forgotten Soldiers of Niue
    Apr 9 2024
    The Forgotten Soldiers of Niue: 150 men plucked from their island paradise and sent to the French frontlines in WWI.
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    32 mins
  • Untold Pacific History | Season 2 | Podcast Trailer

    Untold Pacific History | Season 2 | Podcast Trailer
    Apr 3 2024
    Told in three separate stories, season two of Untold Pacific History shines a light on key events in the Niue, Samoa and Rarotonga that have been little told in Aotearoa.
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    1 min
  • Episode 5: Coup Culture (Fiji) | Untold Pacific History

    Episode 5: Coup Culture (Fiji) | Untold Pacific History
    Jun 14 2021
    This episode examines how and why Indian populations were brought to Fiji, and how the inequities under the colonial government’s Girmit system, created a society of instability and countless coups.
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    40 mins
  • Episode 4: The Cursed Cook Islands Hotel (Rarotonga) | Untold Pacific History

    Episode 4: The Cursed Cook Islands Hotel (Rarotonga) | Untold Pacific History
    Jun 7 2021
    This is a story of indigenous land rights gone awry, a makutu from an aggrieved family and the failed business ventures of an infamous 'haunted hotel' in Rarotonga.
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    29 mins
  • Episode 3: Bullets on Black Saturday (Samoa) | Untold Pacific History

    Episode 3: Bullets on Black Saturday (Samoa) | Untold Pacific History
    May 31 2021
    This episode examines the fatal consequences of New Zealand’s rule in Samoa, and the key events that led to the rise of Samoa's ‘Mau’ resistance movement.  
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    33 mins
  • Episode 2: White Man's Law (Niue) | Untold Pacific History

    Episode 2: White Man's Law (Niue) | Untold Pacific History
    May 24 2021
    What led Commissioner Larsen, the New Zealand administrator of Niue in the 1950s, to be murdered in his bed by three locals hell-bent on justice and revenge?
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    39 mins