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COMMENT: The 40th anniversary of the Erebus disaster was a momentous one.
Four decades on from the country’s deadliest peacetime tragedy, New Zealanders seemed ready to discuss it in a different light.
Over the years, Erebus had been something of a black mark on our history. A controversy rather than a tragedy. Something to be shunned rather than embraced.
SUNGMI KIM/STUFF
A live show of the White Silence podcast will be held in Christchurch on January 26.
That has changed. Most notably by the fact that on November 28 last year Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Air New Zealand board chair Dame Therese Walsh apologised for the role the government and the airline played in causing an Air New Zealand DC10 to crash into Mt Erebus in Antarctica 40 years earlier, killing all 257 people on board.
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* Jacinda Ardern apologises for Air New Zealand Erebus tragedy at 40th anniversary event
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We made the White Silence podcast in this spirit. To give Kiwis a better context and understanding of our worst disaster and why the aftermath played out the way it did.
MCH
PM Jacinda Ardern offered an apology to the Erebus families on behalf of the government on the 40th anniversary of the disaster.
And, this Sunday, January 26, at 4pm, we’ll be presenting one more episode. It’s a live show – part of the Bread & Circus World Buskers Festival – at the Backstage Social Club in the Christchurch Arts Centre. Tickets are free, but there’s limited space, so book yours here.
We (co-host Katy Gosset and I) will be on stage with a couple of special guests, talking about the podcast. How we made it, why we made it, and some of the important things that have happened since it was released.
Joining us will be Sam Mahon, son of Erebus royal commissioner Justice Peter Mahon and author of his own book, My Father’s Shadow; and Lizzie Oakes, who lost her grandmother in the crash and who released her own podcast last year – Erebus Engraved On Our Hearts. Adam Dudding, sometime White Silence producer and co-creator of the award-winning Gone Fishing podcast, will host.
Most importantly, you can ask us questions – anything about the podcast or the disaster itself. This will be the last iteration of White Silence, so if you’re a fan, or a critic, and you’re in Christchurch this Sunday, please – get your ticket and come along.
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