Pants on Fire

RNZ Originals
  • 3.6 (103)
  • SOCIETY & CULTURE
  • COMPLETE SERIES
Pants on Fire

Lies pervade our lives. So why do we do it and why does it hurt so much?

Season 1

  1. EPISODE 1

    The Lies That Hurt

    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.

    22 min

  2. EPISODE 2

    Natural-Born Fibbers

    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.

    23 min

  3. EPISODE 3

    Sweet-Talking Ernest Dickens and the Spanish Prisoner

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

    28 min

  4. EPISODE 4

    The Truth About Lies in Fiction

    In the arts there is much made of the notion of truth: writers search for the truth in a story; visual artists, no matter what form they work in, are all aiming to reveal or discover some form of the truth; scriptwriters want their work to resonate and to ring true; actors want to be true to their characters. How does all that sit within our concept of lying?

    25 min

  5. EPISODE 5

    The Tangled Web

    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?

    29 min
  • 5 Episodes

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Lies pervade our lives. So why do we do it and why does it hurt so much?

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