The Department of Conversation with Pat Brittenden

Robert Rakete was first known to NZers on our small screens on iconic shows like RTR, Countdown, Clash of the Codes and State of the Nation. He was probably best known to Auckland teenagers as the OG breakfast announcer on Mai FM where he became a pioneer of Maori radio. In 2006 he moved his broadcasting talents to The Breeze where he still works with co-host Jeanette Thomas on the #1 music radio breakfast show in the country.

In 2014 he spent time in The Wiggles, as 'the brown Wiggle', a role he reprised in The Wiggles recent 30 year anniversary tour of NZ.

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1/3 of the Dom, Meg and Randell Breakfast show on The Edge, Clinton Randell is an actor, a presenter, a radio announcer and a doting dad and husband.

You can also see Clint on our small screens from this Sunday night as the host of NZ's version of The Masked Singer.

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Kim Vinnell is a presenter for Al Jazeera English. She believes brave journalism is needed now more than ever, and has committed her career to putting truth to power and to conveying untold stories.

As an international correspondent she has covered some of the major news stories of the last decade; including the war in Syria and Eastern Ukraine, Iraq's fight against ISIS, the political fallout from the 2014 war in Gaza and the Mediterranean migrant crisis.

Kim is back in New Zealand for a break and joins us from Managed Isolation for a chat about life, the universe and everything

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Paul Russell has been in the NZ Music scene since he was 14 and the original drummer for iconic Kiwi group Supergroove , since then he has played with Che-Fu The Musician, Eight and a host of other well known NZ artists. Post his initial NZ music career Paul headed to the UK to look for further opportunities and fell into an opportunity to perform with Stomp, in the West End, for several years.

Paul is now back with fellow Eight bandmate Bruce Conlon to do music again with the focus being on the music fist, and allowing the rest to flow where it may, in their new band midwavebreaks

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Nick Rado is a multi-award winning writer, MC and stand-up comedian. Nick is a guest panelist and head writer of over 250 episodes for TV3's award-winning topical news comedy show 7 Days. Nick is the only comedian to win the NZ Comedy Guild Award for 'Best Comedy MC' five times; he is also the winner of Best Male Comedian NZ Comedy Guild Awards 2019. Rado was hand-selected to perform at the Sydney Opera House for the prestigious Just for Laughs Sydney showcase. He has opened for Rob Brydon, Aziz Ansari and Russell Howard on their nationwide tours. He was also featured in Rhys Darby's Sitcom Short Poppies on Netflix. As seen on, The Comedy Channel Australia, the Nightwatchmen and Narrow World of Sports for Fox Sports Australia and as heard on The Rock's Sporting Rumble

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Sonia Gray is new Zealand's second longest serving Lotto presenter, on track to beat Hillary Timmins' 16 year record in 2021. She lives in Sandringham with her husband, twin daughters and an unwelcome family of mice.

This season Sonia began working with Spark Sport's cricket commentary team for its first season as broadcast rights holder.

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Alan McElroy is an award winning Comedian, Actor, Host/MC, Writer & Quiz Führer.

He has performed Edinburgh Fringe, Electric Picnic (Ireland), Melbourne International Comedy Festival and has had sold out shows in the NZ International Comedy Festival. He has hosted on live TV in Ireland & NZ and warmed the audiences of NZ's most popular TV shows.

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Rev. Malcolm Gordon from the Presbyterian church is a musician, academic, former dreadlock wearer and good mate of the show.

Malcolms take on the Christian faith is slightly different from one you might hear on many media sources which may be evident in the themes around his current PhD study where he is exploring the spirituality of suffering between Judaism and Christianity...which means Malcom will bring a unique perspective on things like 'Good' Friday and the place of the church in the public square.

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Darcy Ungaro is a financial advisor at Ungaro & Co Financial Services and a podcaster with the NZ Everyday Investor podcast.

Today Darcy joins Pat for an hour, to let Pat shout at him about the housing 'crisis'

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Emma Ferris is the creator of "Stress Reduction and Better Breathing Course" at The Breath Effect, a public speaker, an acupuncturist, a Pilates instructor and a registered physiotherapist with over 15 years' clinical experience...she was also scammed of over $300,000 by someone she met, and began to date, off Tinder

Emma has detailed her story and the stories of others in her, and her sisters, Conning the Con podcast on all good podcast platforms

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