Have you heard the locally produced podcast 86b?

Posted: Thursday Feb 15, 2024

It's well worth a listen!

Created by Ōtepoti’s Max Balloch, the 86b (formerly Dear Nature) podcast is a series of self-described ‘love letters to existence’, exploring a range of topics from tree communication to moon exploration to what the first human thought may have been. 

The City of Literature team was proud when Max’s Dear Nature Podcast enjoyed great success at the New Zealand Podcast Awards 2022, winning a number of prizes including Gold in the Best Independent Podcast category. The latest episodes are available on OAR FM or Spotify, Apple, YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.

Max also created and ran the Dear Nature Podcast Science Writing Competition for Years 9-13 in Otago and Southland to encourage an interest in science communication.

For more details, follow facebook.com/hello86b or email dearnaturepodcast@gmail.com