The Unmaking - Episode Zero

The Unmaking · May 3, 2026 · 3m · transcript

In early 2025, I found myself towing an old horsefloat crammed full of toys, tools and memories from more than two decades of life in Germany, south through Aotearoa New Zealand. I was returning to Wānaka, closing a loop of more than a quarter century.

That drive became the seed of this podcast.

I’m recording this, episode zero, from Albert Town, Wānaka, looking out over the Mata-Au Clutha River. It’s the reverse view of the one I had in January 2025, swimming in the river on my first day back in Wānaka this millennium. That was even before I’d made the decision to move here (I was visiting…