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Weeknight prime-time current affairs interview show.

  • 1A portrait of businessman Alan Hawkins, two years after the collapse of EquityCorp in the stock market crash which left 40,000 shareholders out of pocket. He was New Zealand's second richest man but now he is being sued for $500 million. He has just written a book called The Hawk, explaining what went wrong. Interview with Hawkins.

    • Start 00 : 00 : 30
    • Finish 00 : 12 : 53
    • Duration 12 : 23
    Reporters
    • Keith Davies (Reporter, TV3)
    • Genevieve Westcott (Interviewer)
    Speakers
    • Alan Hawkins (Former Managing Director, Equiticorp)
    Contributors
    • Genevieve Wescott (Interviewer)
    Live Broadcast
    • Yes
    Commercials
    • Yes
    Notes
    • Picture discolouration during item.
  • 2The mobile telephones of 20,000 New Zealanders could be bugged and the conversations of the users recorded. As the phones are, in effect, radio transmitters, they can be listened to with special radio tuners.

    • Start 0 : 12 : 53
    • Finish 00 : 19 : 23
    • Duration 06 : 30
    Reporters
    • Bill Ralston (Reporter, TV3)
    Speakers
    • Duncan Ross (Private Investigator)
    • Neville Wishart (Spokesman, Telecom)
    • Ross Becker (Spokesman, Radio Frequency Service)
    Live Broadcast
    • No
    Commercials
    • No
    Notes
    • Duncan Ross is wrongly captioned as Neville Wishart, Telecom. Neville Wishart, Telecom is wrongly captioned as Duncan Ross, Private Investigator.
  • 3Seventy one year old Bill Gray has lived for 25 years in remote Cape Providence, Fiordland, by choice. His home is a cave. He describes himself as a loner, not a hermit, and makes money on his occasional visits to town by selling Paua shells for $1.

    • Start 00 : 22 : 49
    • Finish 00 : 27 : 28
    • Duration 04 : 39
    Reporters
    • Melanie Reid (Reporter, TV3)
    Speakers
    • Bill Gray (Loner)
    Locations
    • Cape Providence, New Zealand (Fiordland), undefined
    Live Broadcast
    • No
    Commercials
    • No
Primary Title
  • A Current Affair
Date Broadcast
  • Wednesday 29 November 1989
Start Time
  • 18 : 30
Finish Time
  • 19 : 00
Duration
  • 30:00
Channel
  • TV3
Broadcaster
  • TV3 Network Services
Programme Description
  • Weeknight prime-time current affairs interview show.
Classification
  • Not Classified
Owning Collection
  • Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
  • Television
Languages
  • English
Captions
Live Broadcast
  • Yes
Rights Statement
  • Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Genres
  • Current affairs
Hosts
  • Genevieve Westcott (Presenter)
Reporters
  • Bill Ralston (Reporter, TV3)
  • Genevieve Westcott (Interviewer)
  • Keith Davies (Reporter, TV3)
  • Melanie Reid (Reporter, TV3)
Speakers
  • Alan Hawkins (Former Managing Director, Equiticorp)
  • Bill Gray (Loner)
  • Duncan Ross (Private Investigator)
  • Neville Wishart (Spokesman, Telecom)
  • Ross Becker (Spokesman, Radio Frequency Service)
Locations
  • Cape Providence, New Zealand (Fiordland), undefined
Contributors
  • Genevieve Wescott (Interviewer)