Black Sheep

We're ducking into your feed to bring you an episode of a new RNZ podcast: Kelly Tartlon's... more

On 27 September 1974 New Zealanders woke to the news Dr Bill Sutch, a famous economist, hi... more

Freddie Angell was New Zealand's most notorious wildlife smuggler. His repeated attempts a... more

Early NZ missionary Thomas Kendall arrived in London in 1820 with the Ngāpuhi Rangatira Ho... more

Early Missionary Thomas Kendall facilitated the sale of hundreds of muskets to Ngāpuhi Māo... more

In the 1900s a series of lurid headlines were published in the New Zealand Truth about Geo... more

In 1892 a masked figure in a bizarre uniform began a 15 month crime spree, robbing people ... more

"As morning dawned we stood and watched / That devastated scene / Where but a single yeste... more

"They ​went ​out ​to ​this ​village, ​and ​they ​went ​through ​it ​with ​the ​bayonet.” I... more

“There was a time when I was proud of you men of the Anzac Mounted Division. I am proud of... more

Black Sheep Season 8 is just around the corner with a whole new cast of controversial, vil... more

The last of the so-called 'lunatic asylums' closed only 20 years ago. They were founded on... more

From the 1840s onward, Frederick Maning would become an increasingly bitter and angry man ... more

Frederick Maning was one of the first Europeans to settle in Aotearoa, he married a high-r... more

In the 1910s, Hjelmar Dannevill wowed high society with gripping tales of adventure as a m... more

In 1935, a series of extraordinary newspaper articles claimed a backyard inventor called V... more

Dr Alfred Newman may be the most notorious scientific racist in New Zealand history. His 1... more

In the second of a two-part episode on Charles Mackay Black Sheep investigates the mysteri... more

For more than 50 years the name of Mayor Charles Mackay was all but forbidden in Whanganui... more

RNZ multi award-winning podcast Black Sheep returns on May 26th with a new cast of mysteri... more

When flamboyant orchestra conductor Eric Mareo was convicted of murder for a second time, ... more

Kiwis rose to their feet and cheered when the flamboyant orchestra conductor Eric Mareo wa... more

George Wilder is an accidental folk hero. He never sought the spotlight, but his three esc... more

In 1863 half the population of a small Tongan island called 'Ata boarded a ship captained ... more

In the second of Black Sheep's two part episode on Sir George Grey, Aotearoa is launched i... more

Sir George Grey led Aotearoa into some of the worst conflicts of the New Zealand Wars. But... more

Black Sheep returns for a Sixth Season! [Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details]... more

Minnie Dean is the only woman to be judicially executed in New Zealand history. For years ... more