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In the face of rising anti-trans sentiment, transgender actress and singer Brady Peeti (she/her) journeys across New Zealand to allow trans people of all generations to tell their own stories.

Gul Hussien, his wife Mujaheda, and his family narrowly escaped Kabul, Afghanistan in late 2021.

When the Taliban retook power after 20 years of US military occupation, ordinary citizens like Gul, who is a Hazara, a member of a Shiite Muslim minority, found themselves in a desperately dangerous situation.

Gul and his family narrowly escaped, and now must rebuild their lives in Auckland.

Like many refugees Gul has complex feelings about where home is. "I think I'm still like a bird, flying. Even though I'm here I still cannot forget that I had a home, a family in Afghanistan. So, if I say this is my home then what is that that I left behind?"

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There are over 100 million displaced people across the globe. Thirty-two million of them are #refugees. Each year New Zealand takes in around 1000 refugees who fled to escape persecution or war.

This season of #noplacelikehome follows the dramatic journeys of six refugee families as they resettle in New Zealand.

Fierce rivalry between followers of a unique, accordion-based, musical tradition known as Famo has fuelled years of deadly gang warfare in the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho.

Financed by organised crime and gold salvaged from the area's disused - but still productive - apartheid-era mines, the murderous feuds have now spilled over into neighbouring South Africa.

So why is this blend of traditional songs with Western instruments causing such violent animosity and what can be done to bring it under control?

No Place Like Home, Season One, follows six couples as they return to New Zealand to rebuild their lives after the Covid pandemic.

In episode one we meet Olivia and Lucie. Olivia left New Zealand when she was 17. She’s now in her late 20s, married, and lives in London. At the same time as Covid is wreaking havoc across the UK, back home her mother, Tracey, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.

Olivia and her British wife Lucie return to New Zealand to care for Tracey in her final months. While working remotely they plan for Olivia’s younger sister’s wedding, and try to conceive their first child.

In May 2021, the German government formally acknowledged responsibility for the colonial-era genocide against Namibia's Herero and Nama peoples more than 100 years ago.

It was the first such atrocity of the 20th century. Many historians now see it as foreshadowing the Nazi Holocaust of World War II.

But Herero and Nama activists, who have long campaigned for reparations, say the compensation on offer does not truly reflect the appalling suffering of the tens of thousands who died.

West Africa - and particularly its most populous nation, Nigeria - is battling an opioid abuse crisis. Medicines such as tramadol, legally and legitimately prescribed by doctors for pain relief, are also being taken in life-threatening doses by millions in search of a fix or a release from poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunity.

After Christchurch follows four New Zealand Muslims dealing with the aftermath of the 2019 Christchurch mosque attack which left 51 people dead.

Six (yes, that’s her real name) is an overqualified, underemployed, transgender journalist with unique insight into one of New Zealand’s most pressing social problems: homelessness. Six herself was homeless for many years. Over the course of this eight part series, she documents the stories of Karangahape Roads’s “streeties” for her community newspaper K Rd Chronicle.

In 2018 South African President Jacob Zuma was forced from office by his own party, the African National Congress, when almost a decade's worth of corruption, bribery and racketeering allegations finally became too great to ignore.

New Zealand's pristine and abundant rivers and lakes have long been central to its proud reputation as a land of breath-taking natural beauty - and fundamental to a clean, green, outdoorsy brand that's used to attract millions of foreign visitors every year. But are its waterways really as sparkling and bountiful as the tourist ads suggest?

People and Power goes on the trail of a Somali army commander accused of involvement in mass killings and war crimes.

To bomb your way to freedom is a difficult decision for the leader of any liberation movement. Countless innocent people could lose their lives. Albert Luthuli was the leader of the African National Congress when it embarked on an armed struggle.