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Justine Murray

Host of Nau Mai Town, NZ Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana

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Senior Producer Justine Murray has worked in media for over two decades. Iwi radio was her springboard into other areas of radio including freelance reporting and writing.  The producer of the former weekly RNZ show Te Ahi Kaa, Justine joined the podcast team and oversaw the podcast version of the award-winning Whakamāori (Arataua Media) and is the producer of the RNZ original series Nau Mai Town. In 2023 Justine produced the podcast version of NZ Wars: Stories of Wairau, in this new chapter NZ Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana, Justine is connected to this story through her ancestor, Paraone Koikoi.

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  • The teamwork that solved a life-and-death puzzle

    science
    19 Sep 2024

    It's been almost 30 years since a team joined forces to investigate a particularly aggressive form of stomach cancer that was afflicting one Tauranga whānau. Kimi Hauora Health and Research Clinic in… Audio

  • Our Changing World – Finding a cancer-causing genetic mutation

    science health
    18 Sep 2024

    Almost 30 years ago a team of researchers banded together to investigate an aggressive form of stomach cancer that was responsible for early deaths in one Tauranga whānau.

    Together, Kimi Hauora… Audio

  • Nau Mai Town - Episode 15 Manukau

    te ao Māori Auckland
    29 Aug 2024

    A moment of anxiousness and the abundance of bird life, two similar names but two very different stories. Audio

  • Nau Mai Town

    travel national
    22 Aug 2024

    This week on Nau Mai Town, RNZ's podcast about Aotearoa place names, Justine Murray is in Taumarunui to find out what the name means. There's one version she's heard of and it's about a dying chief… Audio

  • Nau Mai Town - Episode 14 Taumarunui

    te ao Maori Waikato
    22 Aug 2024

    There's the main trunk line, a thriving timber industry and friendly folk. But is the story behind the name Taumarunui about a shelter or a fallen warrior? Audio

  • Nau Mai Town

    language travel
    15 Aug 2024

    Justine Murray is back with this week's episode of Nau Mai Town, RNZ's podcast about Maori place names, this week she is in Moerewa, also known as Tuna Town. The story behind the name is based on a… Audio

  • Spoken Feature: Nau Mai Town

    te ao Maori language
    1 Aug 2024

    The story behind our Maori place names, that's the vibe of the podcast Nau Mai Town producer Justine Murray is back with a fresh season and she's taking us to Wanaka, in Otago South Island.  Audio

  • Nau Mai Town - Season Three

    te ao Maori travel
    24 Jul 2024

    Nau Mai Town is back with another haerenga around Aotearoa to find out more about Māori place names. Audio

  • Whakataukī of the Week with Justine Murray

    culture te ao Māori
    29 Apr 2024

    Justine has been behind the award-winning docuseries NZ Wars, and tonight she's been celebrating the premiere of a new season with a personal connection, Stories of Tauranga Moana. Audio

  • Podcast | NZ Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana | Episode 2

    history te ao Maori
    29 Apr 2024

    On the eve the battle, British troops have ringfenced Gate Pa. Māori are out-numbered 7:1. Can they survive the biggest artillery bombardment ever on New Zealand soil and face down the might of… Audio

  • Podcast | NZ Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana | Episode 1

    history te ao Maori
    29 Apr 2024

    Paraone Koikoi was at the Battle of Gate Pa in 1864, when Tauranga Moana iwi bested the British army in one of the most humiliating defeats in its history. Now, 160 years later, his great-great-great… Audio

  • My Tupuna Paraone Koikoi during the conflict in Tauranga Moana

    history te ao Maori
    29 Apr 2024

    RNZ Podcasts Senior Producer Justine Murray (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi te Rangi) presents her own personal connection to these stories through her tupuna Pāraone Koikoi in the two-part podcast series, NZ…

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