Reverend Colin Graham Scrimgeour (also known as Uncle Scrim) was a New Zealand Methodist Minister and broadcaster. After regularly featuring on 1ZR, Scrimgeour along with Thomas Garland established the 'Friendly Road' radio programme on 1ZB in 1933, which was associated with the non-denominational Fellowship of the 'Friendly Road' (Aunt Daisy broadcast on these stations, and they supported the Labour Party). Shortly before the 1935 election on Sunday, 24 November, an address by Uncle Scrim which was expected to urge listeners to vote Labour was jammed by the Post Office. As a close friend of Michael Joseph Savage and John A. Lee of the First Labour Government which came to power in 1935, Scrimgeour became Controller of the government-run National Commercial Broadcasting Service. He moved to Australia, and worked in radio and television there, helping establish the Mercury Theatre with Peter Finch. In this interview, Colin Scrimgeour talks about his schooling and early work history and politics, as well as the early history of radio broadcasting and establishment of the Broadcasting Act 1931. In Part 2 the interview continues with a discussion of the Labour government in 1936/1937 and how they could have had the overwhelming support of the people of New Zealand, but didn't go far enough.

An interview with Colin Scrimgeour, a New Zealand Methodist Minister and broadcaster. Interviewed by Professor Robert Chapman and Barry Gustafson from the Department of Political Studies at the University of Auckland.