Kiwi Yarns
Welcome to Kiwi Yarns - those yarns you have where you sit down, put the kettle on, pour a whiskey or crack open a beer I honestly don‘t mind. Anyway! We‘re sitting down and we’re yarning to some great New Zealanders, their back stories, their front stories, even stories where they went sideways, we will go there. It’s a place where we celebrate the great people of this glorious nation.
Latest Episode
Veteran activist Tāme Iti on racism, te reo Māori, protesting, and how art saved his life (12.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Jon Bridges on the rising distrust in the media, being a middle-aged man in lycra, and the correct use of an apostrophe 05.10.2025
- Rebecca Nelson: from street busking to singing for King Charles and being shoulder-tapped by the Navy - and the All Black who thought she was miming 28.09.2025
- Slingshot founder Annette Presley on helping young women, ambition, Telecom battles and the cost of success 21.09.2025
- Matt Watson’s painful epiphany that changed the course of his career - and what he’d do to overhaul New Zealand’s commercial fishing industry 14.09.2025
- Dame Jacinda Ardern on leadership, religion, kindness, the state of the world, and Rhythm and Vines 07.09.2025
- Meet Val Smith – New Zealand’s most-capped athlete and two-time lawn bowls world champion 31.08.2025
- Trailblazing drum and bass artist MC Tali on how her fighting spirit drives her past all the people who say no: 'Proving people wrong has always been satisfying' 24.08.2025
- Dame Julie Christie: 37 years of TV, from reality shows to documentaries, and the power of never taking ‘no’ for an answer 17.08.2025
- Somatic sexologist Morgan Penn is on a mission to educate about consent - and shares the deeply personal reason why 10.08.2025
- Country music queen Tami Neilson on carrying both joy and sorrow, touring with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, and music vs politics 03.08.2025
- Guy Montgomery on cracking Australia, the terror of success, making spelling bees funny, and Sex and the City 2 27.07.2025
- Outward Bound CEO Malindi MacLean is 'obsessed' with getting kids offline and outdoors. Hear how she plans to do it. 20.07.2025
- EJ Barnes on growing up with 'freak of nature' dad Jimmy Barnes, finding her own voice, and working with Phil Rudd 13.07.2025
- Russel Norman: Why he'd rather fight for the planet than hope, neoliberalism, and the attack on democracy 06.07.2025
- Six60’s Chris Mac on the band’s future, the myth of balance, and why it’s time to ditch tall poppy syndrome 29.06.2025
- Jo Kane - my mum, my inspiration, and the funniest woman I know 22.06.2025
- Shorty Street star Theo Dāvid on playing Romeo - the original 'F-Boy' - fatherhood, and the theatre of WWE 15.06.2025
- Tanita Garnett beat cancer twice as a young girl - now she's chasing a Black Ferns jersey 08.06.2025
- Changing the fear around menopause - and why we must Fix Iron First: A conversation with Dr Libby 01.06.2025
- Zoe Hobbs - Oceania’s fastest woman - on getting even quicker, not being ‘showy’, and the drama of the call room 25.05.2025
