If the election is driving you to drink, there’s now a podcast for that

This week ‘The Beerhive’ launched, a podcast which sits comfortably between the not-unrelated worlds of between beer and politics. Host Shane Cowlishaw explains the pod to Duncan Greive. Wellington has become essentially the unquestioned home of craft beer in New Zealand, helped by its weather, its geography and sensibility. The nature of their jobs means … Read more

Mai Chen on the growing need for Asian leaders in New Zealand businesses

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Today’s guest is a trailblazer in law, business and leadership. Mai Chen, … Read more

How Burger Burger are giving hospo staff the respect they deserve

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. If you want to see the power of great execution, walk into … Read more

Noelle McCarthy on making a podcast about immigration (and creating a new NZ citizen)

Noelle McCarthy and John Daniell talk about the challenges – eg Winston Peters – they confronted in creating their new series for RNZ, Slice of Heaven. There are few more vexatious issues than immigration. Particularly in the wake of recent political ruptures around the world. Particularly in an election year. In a new podcast for … Read more

New Zealand’s own Serial takes on the Bain slayings

Stuff today released Black Hands, their first podcast series, in which leading David Bain authority and occasionally-terrible column writer Martin van Beynen draws on ten years of experience following the case to outline exactly why he believes Bain is guilty of murdering his family. Don Rowe spoke to van Beynen about the killings, the difficulty of … Read more

How Sharesies is making investment portfolios for everyone, not just the rich

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. One of the common kind of bleats from this podcast is that … Read more

A guide to ethically importing bananas with Karma Cola’s Chris Morrison

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Today’s guest is a pioneer in organics and sustainable business, and has … Read more

The Airbnb of parks: Parkable and Campable are turning your empty driveways into a business

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. In a few years’ time, once enough cars are autonomous and car … Read more

The 9th Floor does the impossible: makes NZ political history urgent and revelatory

The best New Zealand production of the year isn’t TV or radio – it’s a podcast and online video which uses hindsight and our former prime ministers to produce a series of lasting power, says Duncan Greive. While it mightn’t seem so on Twitter during Question Time or in the comments sections of any semi-popular … Read more

Business is Boring #42: Gemma Hurst and Marcus Radich on not always waiting for the world to come to you

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. How do you grow a company overseas? Should you take the leap … Read more

Dear Mamas podcast episode 8: Disability and chronic illness

This is The Spinoff Parents podcast, Dear Mamas, a straight-talking parenting conversation with Holly Walker and Emily Writes. Our brilliant and talented sponsors are Little Big Crate. Little Big Crate delivers gorgeous threads for your little big person, right to your front door. This episode includes discussion of the loss of a child, so please … Read more

Business Is Boring #31 – Jessie Stanley of I Love Pies on the family touch behind business

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. The Lovely Little Food Company is a lovely, not so little, local … Read more

Business Is Boring #26 – Anna Ross of Kester Black on how to avoid chasing debts

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. We’re in Melbourne for a international edition of Business Is Boring where … Read more

Business Is Boring #25 – Rod McDonald on combining business and nature to make excellent wine

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Since arriving in the Hawke’s Bay in 1993 with everything he owned … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #19 – Angela and Anna of Double Denim on fighting the gender gap in advertising

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Women make 80 per cent of household purchasing decisions, yet the advertising … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #18 – James Crow of Nice Blocks on why paying staff a living wage is good for business

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Today we’re joined by a great chap; he’s one half of Tommy … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #17 – Colart Miles on being agile and lean in business

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. How do companies that don’t have an innovation mindset get one? What … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #16 – Sarah Hopkinson on how to sell art

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. The art business is an interesting one. Gallery owners need to be … Read more

A guide to podcasts on The Spinoff

Podcasts are an important pillar of the stuff that gets made for this website. So, as our audience is growing, we decided it’s a good time for staff producer José Barbosa to lay out our roster of podcasts for newcomers, the curious and the plain nosey. Take it away, José! Thank you, mysterious standfirst writer. I’ve … Read more

Podcast: On The Rag special – The women behind The Rehearsal

A rare experimental edition of On the Rag, featuring the women behind The Rehearsal, premiering in the New Zealand International Film Festival this weekend.  In this special edition of On the Rag, Alex talks to the powerhouse of women behind The Rehearsal, the New Zealand film based on the novel by Eleanor Catton. Alison Maclean, … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #12 – Ian McCrae, Orion Health CEO, on what to do if you’ve got an old billboard lying around

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and text. Orion Health is one of the big names in NZ tech, with 1250 staff, operations around … Read more

NZIFF Podcast: week two review, flicks to see in week three and tears, so many tears

Alex Casey is joined by Steve Newall and Liam Maguren of Flicks to discuss their plans for week two of the International Film Festival, review week one and share stories of crying at the flicks. Listen or download this episode using the player below or subscribe to our one-off podcast feed Pop Up Pods using iTunes

Five ways of making an interviewer cry: Noelle McCarthy on her new podcast series

How do you feel about the way your body is changing? Are you afraid of dying? Are you lonely? Noelle McCarthy asks all this and more in a new podcast series for Radio New Zealand. Here are five ways of making an interviewer cry. Tell her about: – how your mother feels about your terminal … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #11 – Danushka Abeysuriya of Rush Digital on VR and trumping Pokémon GO.

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and text.  At the recent Hi-Tech awards one of the first awards of the night was the Hi-Tech … Read more

NZIFF Podcast: What to see in week one and how to avoid being a cinema asshole

Alex Casey is joined by Steve Newall and Liam Maguren of Flicks to discuss their plans for week one, and share hot tips on how to survive the harrowing festival conditions.  With sincere apologies for their disastrous and ill-advised first preview pod, the great Spinoff X Flicks merger podcast returns one day out from the … Read more

Podcast: On the Rag – June Edition featuring bad tennis dresses and What Men Really Want

Better late than never, host Alex Casey is joined by comedian and writer Michele A’Court and Mana magazine editor Leonie Hayden to talk about what June held for women in New Zealand and the world. That is to say: the bad month for women in sports, free tampons in NYC schools and an exciting new book … Read more

Podcast: The Get #7 – Kennedy Warne on writing stories for National Geographic

This is the final episode for this season of The Get. A new season will start in the near future. In the meantime if you have journalists and writers you’d like us to talk to send your suggestions to jose@thespinoff.co.nz. “It might be a week or even a couple of weeks where you’re on the … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #10 – Bailey Mackey of Pango Productions and Kaha

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound will speak with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and text.  News hit recently that a small NZ production company had sold a television format … Read more

Podcast: The Get #6 – Adam Dudding on why not to tell your editor when you’ve got a good story

The Spinoff and Barkers are proud to present a new seven-part podcast series: The Get. Each week Canon award winning journalist Naomi Arnold will interview some of New Zealand’s best feature writers and news journalists about how they hunted down the biggest stories of their careers. “On a given week, from time to time, I … Read more