Behind the Story: If you sleuth hard enough, there are new answers to old questions

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Gabi Lardies takes over the mic on this week’s Behind the Story and is joined by Joel MacManus as they discuss the process of researching 100-year-old mysteries.

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At Large with Toby Manhire

Diving into a story of the moment bringing with Spinoff writers, experts and newsmakers, to help make sense of the headline onslaught.

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While many journalists are trawling Reddit, X and TikTok for
stories, Joel MacManus is browsing Papers Past, an online archive
of digitised historical media. This week he may have solved the
murder case of an emu that died at the Wellington Zoo in 1907 and
last year he made a near definitive ruling on whether or not Te
Rauparaha really did drink at the Thistle Inn. The resulting
investigations make for gripping reading. Gabi Lardies takes over
the mic on this week’s Behind the Story and is joined by Joel
MacManus to discuss why he is so intrigued by these questions and
how he sets about solving them. Windbag: The unsolved case of the
Wellington emu murder Windbag: Did Te Rauparaha really drink at the
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