27 Mar 2025

Outcry after RNZ time capsule opened 25 years too early

From Checkpoint, 5:24 pm on 27 March 2025

There's been public outcry after an RNZ time capsule was opened 25 years earlier than it should have been after Parliament's security services feared it could be a bomb. After carefully opening the 20 litre paint tin-turned-time-capsule, and making sure it didn't contain any explosives, decades worth of RNZ memorabilia was unearthed. Ashleigh McCaull's report starts three decades ago, in a news story on the defunct Capital Nightly News.