From Bluff at the bottom of the South Island, to Cape Reinga at the North Island’s very top,award-winning journalist Naomi Arnold (Northbound) spent nearly nine months walking the motu-spanning Te Araroa.

NZ Columnist of the Year Joe Bennett’s early 2000s hitchhiking adventures became the funny and internationally best-selling A Land of Two Halves: An Accidental Tour of New Zealand, a journey he recently opted to revisit – now as “a pensioner with an iffy prostate” – to see how the country has changed.

They join Liv Sisson to recount the twists and turns of their respective adventures, and reflect on what insights the journeys gave them to Aotearoa New Zealand today.