Annabel Lee-Mather
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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for local Māori defending themselves at Wairinga Ahika.
Once you start to learn this history, you start to see Aotearoa through fresh eyes, and that's been incredibly empowering and insightful for me to be able to understand my country in a new way.
We don't try to create the definitive history of each of these battles.
And as that saying goes, the old adage, you know, history is recorded by the winners, not the losers.
And what we're really trying to do with this series, our goal is to seek out those oral histories from within whānau,
that you won't find in history books, and to bring them to life because that's where you see the humanity, the very personal impact of these wars on our whānau.
And while they may not be widely known or taught in schools,
These are stories that are handed down generation to generation.
There's still so much mamai and pauri and injustice attached to them.
So to be able to bring them to a wider audience and share them with everyone not only helps to archive that really rich oral history that we could lose if we don't, but also I think is cathartic for those whānau who have carried this mamai for so long on their
own as kaitiaki of these kōrero and being able to share it with the rest of Aotearoa and have their mamai and their stories recognised is important.
My husband said that he could barely hear the documentary when we had the premiere the other day because me and Mahi were howling so hard the whole way through it.
So in the moment when it happens, you're trying to be game face and you're trying to hold the space open for Nikki, which no one does like Mahi.
Mahi's so incredible at creating safe spaces for all of these iwi historians to share their kōrero.
She's really in a league of her own.
And then when we're going through the post-production process, we're like, you know, finding all of these really powerful bits.
And we, you know, obviously we know how it will resonate emotionally with people.
But I have to say, sitting in that room with not just Nikki, but all of Nikki's kuia, her kaumatua and her whānau the other day was so powerful.
And we can hear the kuia like sobbing and we were quite emotional too.
Yeah, it just makes it feel like such a privilege to be privy to that kind of... to have such important kaupapa entrusted to us, I think.
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