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 Goodbye Pork Pie
 An Immigrant Nation
 Permanent Wave
 The Day Morris Left
 Love Mussel
 Grammar Boys

Synopsis

Actor Michael Hurst began life in northern England, then moved to Christchurch at age eight. In this episode of Here to Stay Hurst looks at the pervasive elements of Kiwi culture that derive from mother England — including roasts, rugby, and the Mini, as well as a language and legal system. Hurst heads to the East Coast (to meet the English-Māori Ormond family), Mt Peel, Kapiti Island, and Christ's College, and goes ... Morris dancing. A chorus of Kiwis, including ex-All Blacks' captain David Kirk and historian Jock Phillips, ponder the influence.

 

Credits (13)

 Dan Salmon

Dan Salmon
Director

 Gary Scott

Gary Scott
Producer

 Paul Stanley Ward

Paul Stanley Ward
Writer

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Quotes

We’ve [New Zealanders] got a sort of tolerance to other other people — as long as they accepted the superiority of English values. 

– Historian Jock Phillips

A lot of the things that we think of being central to New Zealand identity: being good at war ... hunting ... were values and experiences which actually in England, were part of the English upper class. And what happened in New Zealand, was that those values came to New Zealand, and then got universalised. 

– Historian Jock Phillips

For New Zealand it [winning matches against England] was an opportunity — back to the big brother, little brother syndrome — to show that we might have gone away, we might be 12,000 miles away, and it might be 100 years since, but we’d figured out how to play the game and we were coming back to show our teachers how to do it. 

– Rugby World Cup-winning captain David Kirk on beating the English at their own game