Steve Braunias

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1,194 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 14 Jun

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Between Two Beers Podcast · Inside the Polkinghorne Case & the Mind of NZ's Greatest Writer - Steve Braunias · 14 Jun 2026 podcast

you know, and also the, yeah, the fact that they disappear.

There's like no trace of them.

Internet's kind of ruined that.

I was just thinking about that.

What year is it?

The Polkinghorne trial was coming up and I said, oh, well, you know, I'll toddle along for day one or two and write about it for the paper and go away.

So go to day one and within like, you know,

probably like two hours, I realized that, no, I was going to stay for every available second of this.

I was not going to be moved from court.

I would be bringing breakfast, lunch, and dinner to court.

I was going to live in court for as long as this took.

And I hoped it would take longer than it was marked down for.

You know, I didn't want an early end to this.

I think it was marked down for five weeks.

I think I went for eight, something like that.

Why?

I was the happiest man.

It was just so obviously fascinating and obviously historic.

You know, one of the things you want to do as a journalist and what the trade allows you is to be a witness to history, to be there when things happen, to see things happen as they're happening.

And you just knew that this was...

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