The Frog & Cheetah

Welcome to S03E02: the poetry, fake your own death, embezzlement, Cluedo, Persian rug, DNA test, boating reprise episode of The Brokenwood Mysteries, featuring homosexualism, St Judas church and Amelia and Rebecca's friend's brother as a grave digger. If you knew you were going to die, would you pre-record yourself reading a poem to play at your funeral, or would you get the local florist to do it for you? If you ran a funeral home, would you let a coffin slide out of a hearse onto the roa...

It's been a rough week for Amelia and Razz, with sickness, technological issues, failing to acquire 'very legal DVDs' of Brokenwood Season 3 and being negged in the New Zealand books media, but the gals are back and focussed on the only thing that really matters: S03E01 The Black Widower. Ray Nielson is more than just the proprietor of the Frog & Cheetah, he's also the owner-operator of Ray's Tours: a knock-off Lord of the Rings tour company that swindles non-English speaking tourists in...

Howdy y'all, it's the country music episode and Amelia. . . is having an existential crisis about being a podcaster during humanity's downfall. Luckily Razz is here to move her swiftly along into what really matters: the Season 2 finale 'Blood Pink'. Mike Shepherd's favourite country music star Holly Collins has been found dead in a motel bathtub holding an electric guitar. Her boyfriend Waylon Strings has gone missing. The bassist Slim Fingers has gone missing. The tour manager Keith ...

Is The Frog & Cheetah your favourite aspirational podcast, but you wish it had more detailed information about the duties of New Zealand fisheries officers ? Well, well, well! In S2E3 'Catch of the Day', Jared's gone out for a surf at Brokenwood Beach and found a severed hand in a crayfish pot. It's pointing at him like Des the Devil used to point at him before his fishing boat blew up five years ago. Could these incidents be. . .related? The cray pot does have a 66 on it, which we all...

Guess who's back in the house, it's Amelia and Rebecca, here to bathe in the soft wisdom of the English language's greatest poet – Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd. All the world's a stage and all the men, women, asthmatics and asexual people of Brokenwood are merely players. But what, ho! Did someone say the name of the Scottish play in the theatre? In S02E02, To Die or Not to Die, a 21-year-old orphan has died all over the stage during an amateur production of Hamlet. And not from ...