Marcus Lush Nights

Poor old John just wanted to win his millions...
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The search for Lucas the cavoodle, who'd been missing in bush near Wainuiomata since last Friday is over.
The dog was found on a public street some way from where members of the local community who'd raised thousands of dollars to fund the search had been looking.
Caller Campbell told Marcus Lush he was involved in the search.
He says the dog covered a lot of territory to get to where he was found.
"No one can believe how he got over to the spot, given the size of him and the steepness of the terrain, so we really are quite amazed at where he ended up."
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It’s not often you get the competition ringing up, but that was exactly what Marcus Lush had last night.
Expecting to get a caller interested in discussing Jono and Ben, Marcus instead got the comedians themselves phoning in.
The pair were up on a billboard promoting their latest burger venture, and phoned up to get involved in the night’s chat.
The pair shared their joy for Marcus’ show, while he called them up on stealing his ideas.
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It’s hard for me to really say too much about Merv Smith.
I would say that for a long time, and certainly probably forever, he was the biggest name in radio
He dominated breakfast. It was the whole cliche ‘the King of the Cornies’.
Merv Smith was that, and probably had a bigger market share than anyone’s ever had in radio. A great voice, and an absolute broadcasting legend.
That name is bandied around somehwat recklessly to describe people’s career, but certainly when it comes to boradcasting legends Merv Smith would be right there at the very top.
Pretty much in his days when he was doing radio, when he was dominating everyone in the breakfast, he wasn’t on the big money either. In those days it was pretty much the role of a public servant was the job of being a radio announcer.
That was Merv Smith, and he dominated for a long, long time.
He did breakfast radio from 1961 through until when Paul Holmes came on. Merv Smith went from 61 to just shy of 1990.
Probably no one’s role as a breakfast host has been as distinguished or successful or as lengthy.
I don’t know how big he was outside of Auckland. I think the Earlybird was on before some of the breakfasts on the ZB network outside of Auckland, some people might remember him for the kid’s show on the weekends.
The other thing about Merv Smith too was he was very much a railway man. He was very involved in railways and restorations. His two loves were radio and the railway, probably three with country music.  I met him once when I was making a railway documentary.
People that work in radio, they don’t always live forever. Plenty die young, but when you look at Merv Smith. He must have had 30 years of retirement. It was a long, long time.

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Kathleen Johnson talks to Marcus about life as a quadruplet.

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