The Department of Conversation with Pat Brittenden

Rebekah Campbell realised, that after 10 years of not dating, that if she wanted a partner and a family that she'd have to be intentional about how to get it...start dating, follow a regime similar to marketing a product and 138 dates later she found what she was looking for.

Pat and Rebekah chat about Rebekah's life, her book and dating as 'adults' in the 21st century.

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Max Rashbrooke is a senior associate at the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at Victoria University and has twin research interests in economic inequality and open government, and has also worked extensively as a journalist.

As a journalist, Max has written for outlets in Britain and New Zealand including the Guardian, the Spinoff and Newsroom. He is a fortnightly columnist for Stuff. He has twice been the recipient of the Bruce Jesson Senior Journalism Award, and was a 2015 Winston Churchill Fellow.

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Ian Smith is a New Zealand broadcaster and former international cricketer where he played wicket keeper for New Zealand through the 1980s and into the 90s.

Smith is now working with SENZ. a 24/7 sports radio network where he hosts every morning from 9 am - noon

In the 1994 New Year Honours, Smith was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to cricket. In April 2020, he was awarded the Bert Sutcliffe Medal by New Zealand Cricket for outstanding services to cricket

Michael is a public health physician and Professor in the Department of Public Health. He is passionate about opportunities to organise society in ways that promote health, equity and sustainability.

His work during 2020-21 has been dominated by assisting with the Covid-19 pandemic response. Michael is a member of the Ministry of Health's Covid-19 Technical Advisory Group and has been a leading architect and advocate for the Covid-19 elimination strategy. He established a programme of research on the epidemiology, prevention and control of Covid-19 in NZ and internationally (Co-Search), which has generated a large amount of published research and commentary aimed at improving the pandemic response.

Michael's work on public health, and the Covid-19 response in particular, was recognised by a number of recent awards including: the Critic and Conscience of Society Award (from Universities NZ), the Public Health Champion award (from the Public Health Association of NZ), being made a Member of the NZ Order of Merit (MNZM), his selection as the 2020 Wellingtonian of the Year, and the Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize in 2021.

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Justin M. O'Sullivan PhD is a Professor, Associate Director for Research and the Deputy Director of the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland. Justin trained as a molecular microbiologist, before completing postdocs on the genetic code in Candida albicans and transcription control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

At a basic level Justin is trying to understand how your genetics interface with your environment through your microbiome to affect your risk of developing complex diseases. His end goal is to contribute to individualized/personal medicine.

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Dr. Ian Griffin is an astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and a public spokesman upon scientific matters. In 2015, Griffin was awarded the New Zealand Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize for his work at Otago Museum where he is currently the Director. In 2019 he was elected a Companion of Royal Society Te Apārangi. Griffin was the CEO of Science Oxford, in Oxford, United Kingdom, and the former head of public outreach at NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute.

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Tim Batt is an award winning comedian and podcaster and is on a tour of the South Island with his show "Classy Warfare" where, as someone who is as broke as hell is prepared to "lay the blame on entitled Boomers, apathetic Xers and an anxiety-ridden Gen Z."

His podcast, "The Worst Idea of All Time", is co-hosted with Guy Montgomery where they watch and review the same film every week for a year. In each season, the film chosen is one neither of the hosts have seen before and is generally considered to be a bad film.

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Professor David Goldberger has argued two times before the U.S. Supreme Court including the famous Skokie Case where, in 1977, he defended the rights of Nazi's in the US to share their beliefs publicly. Goldberger did this while serving as legal and legislative director of the Illinois Division of the ACLU.

Pat and David talk about free speech versus hate speech as the NZ government takes submissions on a proposed change to Hate Speech laws following recommendations made by a Royal Commission looking into the Christchurch Mosque Massacre.

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Robyn Malcolm is an actress, who first gained recognition for her role as nurse Ellen Crozier on Shortland Street.

She is best known today, for six seasons of playing Cheryl West, matriarch to a sometimes criminal working-class family in Outrageous Fortune, Kirsty Corella in the Australian television series Rake, Julie Wheeler in Upper Middle Bogan, Marina Baxter in The Code and various other local and international roles in productions like Lord of the Rings, The Lovely Bones and The Outpost

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Katy Thomas' six-year-old son Eddy has life-threatening epilepsy, which is treated with CBD oil imported from the UK. But they've run out, and the new batch they ordered is stuck at the border.

Katy is a friend of the show and comes back on to tell us what's currently going on with Eddie and how COVID and travel restrictions are impacting his health

Katy's previous episode https://fb.watch/5CBSSiu_hJ/

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