A 12-part documentary podcast about the notorious free-love commune, Centrepoint. There are crimes. But this isn’t a whodunnit. It’s a whydunnit ...
In 2025, The Commune was chosen as an Apple Podcasts Series Essential.
INTRODUCING Quarantine Nation.
A lethal virus. A drastic lockdown. A nation turned upside down.
Listen to "Lockdown" – episode 2 of the new eight-part series revisiting the strange days of New Zealand's Covid-19 pandemic, from the makers of The Commune.
Adam Dudding and Eugene Bingham delve into what really happened – and what it taught us about ourselves. Subscribe to "Quarantine Nation" wherever you get your podcasts - there's a bunch of links here: https://linktr.ee/quarantinenation.
Made with the support of NZ on Air for Stuff by Te Pūrongo Productions.
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3 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
Introducing: QUARANTINE NATION Ep1
INTRODUCING Quarantine Nation.
A lethal virus. A drastic lockdown. A nation turned upside down.
Listen to "Contagion" – episode 1 of the new eight-part series revisiting the strange days of New Zealand's Covid-19 pandemic, from the makers of The Commune.
Adam Dudding and Eugene Bingham delve into what really happened – and what it taught us about ourselves. Subscribe to "Quarantine Nation" wherever you get your podcasts - there's a bunch of links here: https://linktr.ee/quarantinenation.
Made with the support of NZ on Air for Stuff by Te Pūrongo Productions.
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2 Aug 2024
Introducing: The Trial - Philip Polkinghorne
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.
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Introducing: QUARANTINE NATION Ep2
Published 3 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] For better or worse, in a flash, long planned overseas adventures were scuppet. Educational and career paths were suddenly shut down or delayed or sent off on a different track. Weddings were put on pause, hasty new living arrangements were cobbled together. One of the paradoxical things about that very first lockdown though is that alongside the existential terror, the economic chaos, the disrupted education and the families pulled apart, there were especially in the earlier weeks, some strangely pleasant side effects to shutting down a country. We did 30 or so interviews for this podcast and almost everyone said, look, my heart goes out to the people who had real struggles but me, personally, my lockdown. […]
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