The Department of Conversation with Pat Brittenden

In the course of his career Te Radar has dived with sharks, narrowly avoided a rabbit while racing a Formula 3 car at 200kph, plunged into the frozen Ross sea in only a skimpy pair of togs, interviewed Yassar Arafat under the watchful eye of gun-toting Palestinian soldiers, been stung in a rather awkward place by a scorpion, and become (unofficially) New Zealand's worst television gardener.

With a string of more official awards to his name, including the country's highest accolades for comedy and television, he is one of New Zealand's most recognised comedians and personalities.

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Scotty Stevenson is a popular NZ broadcaster. In 2019 he left Sky Sport NZ and started a joint role with TVNZ 1 and Spark, leading the coverage of the Rugby World Cup 2019 from Japan.

Scotty is a journalist and an author. You can read his thoughts at The Spinoff or his latest book, released late last year, Keiran Read: Straight 8, at any good bookstore...if they every open again 😉

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Anna Fifield is the Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post, covering all aspects of greater China.

Anna and Pat chat about the Wuhan outbreak, the Chinese response and the world in general under Coronavirus

Anna was the Post's bureau chief in Tokyo between 2014 and 2018, focusing on Japan and the Koreas but periodically reporting from other parts of the region. She particularly concentrated on North Korea, trying to shed light on the lives of ordinary people there and also on how the regime managed to stay in power.

She is the author of "The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un."

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Daryl Habraken is an actor, podcaster, voice actor and cinematographer.

He recently played the roll of 'the mole' on NZ's Bachelorette. Daryl joins Pat for a chat about life, the universe and everything.

Join the boys for a fun and enlightening chat about everything from Coronavirus to Netflix to what the world will be like post Alert Level 4 lockdown.

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Joel Tobeck is an actor known for his roles in the television series Xena Warrior Princess, Shortland Street, Underbelly, Hercules and Sons of Anarchy. You may have seen him also on the big screen in such films as Eagle Versus Shark, Lord of the Rings and Mortal Engines. Tobeck is also currently (minus the Coronavirus shutdown) in the middle of filming Black Hands, the Bain family murders film where he plays Robin Bain the father of the infamous family.

Joel joins Pat from his home to talk about Tiger King, the film industry, life during the Coronavirus and about his public life that has been a part of the NZ landscape for 30 years.

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Will Fleming is a podcaster who enjoys having deep conversations with experts who explore and unpack the mind, body and the unknown. His podcast Please Blow My Mind with Will Fleming is an insightful place to sit a spell and learn from Will and his guests about life and the things that matter.

Will joins Pat and the two chat about podcasting, new media, coronavirus and what is really important in life today...like right now...like what we can sit and touch.

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Steve Wrigley is well known to New Zealand audiences for his elaborate and exuberant comedy. Having appeared on many TV shows from 7Days to AotearoHA, the Comedy Gala to After Hours and his duo show with Ben Hurley World Famous with Ben & Steve, he's proven his comedy chops to the whole country.

Winner of the Billy T Award, Steve is now based in New York and joins Pat from his $25,000 house, he purchased and then spent a year fixing up, about life in the US, Coronavirus, comedy, news, new media and more.

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Tim Roxborogh is an award winning radio announcer, travel writer/photographer, music blogger, music director, journalist, voice-over artist and cricket commentator with 21 years major market experience in Auckland, New Zealand. He has travelled around the world with his articles published over 70 times in major newspapers and magazines. He now writes a weekly travel article for the NZ Herald and has more than 400 additional articles are available on his website, The Roxborogh Report.

Pat and Tim get into the deep details of the American political scene in this episode, also chat over how the Media will survive the current COVID19 world and what it will look like on the other side.

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Simon Caine has been performing stand up for over 8 years. He's done over 1,400 gigs and has done 2 Edinburgh Fringe solo shows (full runs) as well as 2 subsequent national tours.

Simon is the person legendary comedian Doug Stanhope referred to as "a more authentic John Oliver" and he chats with us over Zoom as our first COVID19 lockdown podcast as we talk podcasting, comedy, politics and Coronavirus.

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Professor Philip Hill holds separate qualifications as a medical practitioner (MBChB), specialist public health physician (MPH; FAFPHM; FNZCPHM), specialist infectious diseases physician (FRACP), as well as a doctorate in the epidemiology of tuberculosis in The Gambia (MD).

We are speaking with Professor Hill as a way to get direct information to you about COVID-19.

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