The Department of Conversation with Pat Brittenden

Nathan is a stand up comedian who does comedy about his experience with mental health which he's turned into a hour show called "Searching for Happiness". This show was originally called "Is Suicide an Option?" which Nathan used during the Nelson Fringe Festival.

The show touches on Nathan's depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, Hillmorton Hospital, antidepressants, doctors and everything related into the journey of getting better.

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Dr Jutel wrote his PhD on "Liberalism and its Populist Excess: Barack Obama, The Tea Party, Fox News and the field of Journalism"...so we get to chat with Olivier about Fox News and how the media id shaping politics in the US and how right-wing media machine was able to do a 180 rebrand during the Obama years and constructive conservatism as a populist outsider politics.

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David is the co-founder of CreatureKind, an organisation "to encourage Christians to recognize faith-based reasons for caring about the wellbeing of fellow animal creatures used for food"

David is in Dunedin asking what does Christian faith mean for how we treat animals, especially in our use of them for food?

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Today we are chatting with Dunedin-based fantasy literature academic Dr Joseph Young. Joseph who has just published a study of the work of George R.R. Martin and his fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, on which the television show, Game of Thrones, is based.

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Christian Picciolini, a former prominent white supremacist, chatted to us today via Skype live from Chicago

Christian runs Free Radicals Project a global, multidisciplinary extremism and violence prevention, intervention, and disengagement platform and practice.

We contacts Christian soon after the Christchurch terror attacks to bring some wisdom and perspective to what we were seeing in NZ, and what we see around the world with activity from white supremacists appearing to be on the rise.

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Today we talked to Peter Ryan, the Irish Ambassador to New Zealand about Brexit, the Irish Language and, of course, the Rugby World Cup.

Ambassador Ryan has served as Second Secretary and Deputy Head of Mission at the Irish Embassy in Seoul, Korea, before moving to the Embassy of Ireland, Singapore and working for the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources covering ICT, science and energy policy in the Asia-Pacific Region. After that, he was appointed Director of the Asia-Europe Foundation in Singapore before moving to New York as Deputy Consul General for three years. He served four years as Consul General of the Consulate General, Hong Kong, before taking up his current role as resident Ambassador to New Zealand.

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Billed as 'the female Bear Grylls', Dutch-born Miriam Lancewood quit modern comforts and the teaching profession eight years ago to embrace an off-grid, primitive life in the New Zealand wilds. She's written about her experiences in Woman in the Wilderness. What began as a year-long experiment, alongside her Kiwi husband Peter, has turned into a fulfilling nomadic lifestyle

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Jack has recently moved off TVNZ's Breakfast to take up his new position on Q+A. Jack also hosts a Saturday morning show on Newstalk ZB which, this week, he will be broadcasting from Dunedin

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Today we chatted with Julia Parnell, director of The Chills Film, The Triumph & Tragedy of Martin Phillipps.

It's an awesome doco, not just a look into the Dunedin Sound and The Chills, but a look at life, hope, regret, health and a life lived by one of NZ's iconic musicians.

Keep an eye out for it at your local cinema, The Chills Film

https://www.madmanfilms.com.au/the-chills-the-triumph-tragedy-of-martin-phillipps/

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Today we chatted with singer/songwriter Malcolm Gordon. Malcolm is also a Presbyterian Minister and with Easter coming up we'll have a good chin wag about that...and maybe touch on Israel Folau and his recent headlines.

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