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It’s from Hōne to Heke

Talking to the Listener last June about the success of his jovial te ao Māori explainer series From Hongi to Hāngī, Tāmati Rīmene-Sproat mentioned a planned episode on the Treaty of Waitangi.

“That one’s going to be really difficult,” he worried. “We’re going to need to spend a lot of time crafting how we tell that …It will need to be challenging to the audience and some of their thinking, while

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