K Road Chronicles
2 Seasons
K Road Chronicles is a look at homelessness from the inside. Six – once homeless herself for several years, now a journalist – is our guide to the colourful, diverse, harsh and often tragic world of street people living on and around Auckland’s Karangahape Road. 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 series, she documents the stories of Karangahape Road’s “streeties” for her community newspaper the K Road Chronicle.
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09:34Episode 1
K Road Chronicles Housed
Episode 1
"K’ Road Chronicles" features host Six exploring life on the margins. She and ex-sex worker Sammy revisit their old haunts, reminiscing about their shared past living on the streets. This gritty series offers a powerful, unique perspective on poverty and homelessness from those who lived it.
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K Road Chronicles Covid-19 and The Streets
Episode 2
K’ Road Chronicles: gritty stories from society's margins. Host Six, journalist and street paper publisher, offers her unique take on poverty & homelessness. This episode explores the unique, critical problems Covid-19 posed for those without a home and the people struggling to help them.
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09:34Episode 3
K Road Chronicles Hidden Homelessness
Episode 3
"K' Road Chronicles" is powerful, gritty storytelling from the margins. Host Six, journalist and street paper publisher, offers her unique take on poverty and homelessness. She highlights hundreds of youth couch-surfing, unaware they're homeless. We meet a young man whose life was transformed by ...
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K Road Chronicles Rainbow Youth and Jacques
Episode 4
"K' Road Chronicles" features host Six, a trans journalist, giving a gritty, powerful voice to those on society's margins. In one episode, she connects with Jacques, a 17-year-old trans male forced into couch surfing. Sharing this lived experience, Six explores his story of overcoming adversity a...
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10:24Episode 5
K Road Chronicles Waka of Caring
Episode 5
"K' Road Chronicles" delivers gritty stories from society's margins. Host Six, journalist and street paper publisher, offers her unique take on poverty & homelessness. At a South Auckland drop-in centre, an unlikely love story reveals how a caring community can transform lives.
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11:28Episode 6
K Road Chronicles Wiremu
Episode 6
"K' Road Chronicles" is gritty storytelling about life on the margins. Host Six, journalist and publisher of the street paper, gives her unique take on poverty and homelessness. We meet Wiremu, who was 280kg, an addict, and near death. His life was transformed when he met Linda. A story of strugg...
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10:15Episode 7
K Road Chronicles Open Arms, Whangarei
Episode 7
"K' Road Chronicles" features host Six exploring life on the margins. In a trip to Whangārei, she meets Carmen, formerly homeless and now housed. While Carmen is giving back, she unexpectedly reveals to a surprised Six how much she misses her old life, offering powerful, gritty storytelling.