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Frost Over New Zealand - The Leaders

Television (Full Length) – 1973

Colin
Colin
5 Sep 2014 - 01.04pm
A true statesman, non of our politicians of any party now can compare to this man.
Murray
Murray
3 Sep 2014 - 02.53pm
So sad that Norm Kirk didn't live to fulfill a vision of New Zealand politics that was sensitive, astute, considered, egalitarian and polite. All old fashioned stuff but I am sad that I am too young to have fully experienced his leadership (I was 14 in 1973). We could have had a different country had Big Norm lived longer, and I'm sure it would be a less divisive and selfish society than the one we have now. Where are the leaders like Norm today? We need them.
Nick
Nick
2 Jul 2014 - 02.10am
Both excellent men, both so sadly wrong about the future. I liked that the interview focused mostly on substance rather than who's-up-who's-down, and that both men were diplomatic and polite but had actual answers to the questions. Clark and Key could take lessons from them!
Doug
Doug
8 Jan 2014 - 09.58pm
Thank you
Mega
Mega
29 Dec 2013 - 11.56pm
I am in awe of what we lost. Look at the demeanour of John Key, who slurs the left like it is his favourite past time.
Allan
Allan
7 Sep 2013 - 05.51pm
The contrast between Kirk and Key on spying couldn't be greater. This is the difference between a statesman and an opportunist banker.
2 Sep 2013 - 12.15am
That was great viewing. What a long way we've fallen since 1973.
Laurence Summers
Laurence Summers
1 Sep 2013 - 11.37pm
RIP David Frost - God Bless You
Paul Ward
16 Jun 2013 - 08.18pm
@Wayne: you'd be best to get in touch with TVNZ Archives to see if further Frost titles remain in the archive: http://tvnz.co.nz/footage/index-group-3362563
Wayne Facer
Wayne Facer
15 Jun 2013 - 05.39pm
David Frost also did two programmes on religion, one a general apnel discussion, the other an interview with Lloyd Geering. Does anyone have copies of those tapes or know where they are?
JOCE jesson
JOCE jesson
2 Oct 2012 - 05.17pm
We need to keep remembering like this
25 Aug 2012 - 08.28pm
They don't make them like Norm Kirk anymore. What a lovely, dearly loved Prime Minister he was.
An intelligent yet humble man, not out to be a superstar, like some today. Just there doing the job he was born to do.
Carol
Carol
9 Aug 2012 - 01.54pm
A sincere, intelligent, compassionate man, something you don`t see in politics anymore.
7 Aug 2012 - 11.21am
Lovely to see this, Norman Kirk was a great Prime Minister: a man of integrity and a man who had compassion and cared about the ordinary New Zealand.
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