Nigel Latta

All Episodes 2014
TV-PG

  • Ended
  • 2014-07-29T09:30:00Z
  • 1h
  • 6h (6 episodes)
  • New Zealand
Nigel Latta looks at the issues in a hard-hitting 6 part documentary series about tough issues facing all New Zealanders Problems with Child Abuse, Poverty & Growing Inequality, Alcohol, the Education system, the Prison system and our growing rates of obesity & diabetes - they are all hot topics. Almost everyone seems to have an opinion - often informed by little more than single sentence headlines or talkback radio. The most important issues we face as a country seem to be ones that we understand the least. Clinical psychologist Nigel Latta sets out on a journey to find out what's really going on - sorting out fact from spin, and real solutions from empty rhetoric.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2014-07-29T09:30:00Z

1x01 The New Haves And Have Nots

Series Premiere

1x01 The New Haves And Have Nots

  • 2014-07-29T09:30:00Z1h

Series Premiere: Respected clinical psychologist Nigel Latta sets out on a journey to sort fact from spin, and get to the core of the major social issues facing New Zealanders.

1x02 School Report - What's Going On

  • 2014-08-05T09:30:00Z1h

Nigel Latta takes himself back to school to have a look into NCEA and our education system. Spending time at both primary and high schools, he discovers learning is not what it used to be.

2014-08-12T09:30:00Z

1x03 The Trouble With Booze

1x03 The Trouble With Booze

  • 2014-08-12T09:30:00Z1h

Continuing his hard hitting series addressing the major social issues facing New Zealanders, this week Nigel Latta takes a serious look into our drinking culture

2014-08-19T09:30:00Z

1x04 Killing Our Kids

1x04 Killing Our Kids

  • 2014-08-19T09:30:00Z1h

New Zealand has a shameful record when it comes to family violence, and child homicide. In this episode I set out to find out why that is, and what we should do about it.

2014-08-26T09:30:00Z

1x05 Prisons

1x05 Prisons

  • 2014-08-26T09:30:00Z1h

This week I'm taking a look at our prison system. Does getting "tough on crime" really work? We're told it does, and we lock up more people in New Zealand than many other countries... but does it do what we think it does?

2014-09-02T09:30:00Z

1x06 Is Sugar The New Fat?

1x06 Is Sugar The New Fat?

  • 2014-09-02T09:30:00Z1h

Series Final: Wrapping up his six-part documentary series Nigel Latta turns the camera on our favourite indulgence- sugar!

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