Pants on Fire RNZ Originals

Do our politicians lie to us? What are the lies that really matter in politics? Should we be worried, or do we just like to think all politicians lie?

Episode 3 - The Truth about Lies in Fiction

Sweetheart scams and the booming cyber-fraud industry are fueled by the human drive to trust people.

We take a journey from the trainer-wheels fibs of toddlers through to our peak period of dishonesty – the teen years – with a child psychotherapist and a family counsellor. 

Nothing stings like the discovery that we have been lied to. Betrayal hurts and some of the most painful lies are those around infidelity. where betrayal is compounded by a powerful sense of rejection.