DickWeir
- Presenter
The distinctive deep voice of veteran broadcaster Dick Weir, QSM, is known to generations of Kiwi kids as a longtime Radio New Zealand National presenter (The Dick Weir Sunday Show, Ears). On screen he has narrated everything from election campaigns to Erebus docudramas to Wild South. Weir was also the inaugural presenter of 80s after-school news programme The Video Dispatch.
Screenography
Biography
Broadcaster Dick Weir is best known as a longtime Radio New Zealand radio host; his distinctive 'caramel' voice is familiar to generations of Kiwi kids, via children’s radio slots like the Dick Weir Sunday Show (1979 - 1988), and nightly kids’ show Ears (1988 - 1996), where he performed dramas like Space Station Z and characters like Letterbox Lizard.
Awards
1998 Queen’s Service Medal
For Services to Children’s Broadcasting
1983 Bill Toft Memorial Award
Radio Broadcaster of the Year
“A legend in children’s broadcasting, known to generations of Radio New Zealand listeners...”