Public Address 10 October 2011 - Dropping the Bomber

Dropping the Bomber
11:45 Oct 10, 2011 in Hard News by Russell Brown
Making radio programmes for Radio New Zealand can be a vexing business. When I was a regular on the comedy news quiz Off the Wire, the employees responsible for vetting the programme (I always pictured them wearing cardigans) would routinely...
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Where are the foreigners?!
10:37 Oct 10, 2011 in Hard News by Russell Brown
My taxi driver had a theory, as taxi drivers often do—especially when they’ve had a lot of time to sit in their cars and ruminate. At about 12.30am on Friday morning, on Queen Street, I was only his...
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Thanks, Steve. For everything.
12:51 Oct 6, 2011 in Hard News by Russell Brown
I’m supposed to be prepping for my event tonight, but Steve Jobs has died and I’m stopped in my tracks. I first used a Mac in 1986, when I was crashing on the floor of my buddy Chris’s tiny bedsit...
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