WallaceChapman
- Presenter
Wallace Chapman completed a degree in English and Education at Otago University, then took on varied roles at Dunedin’s Radio One 91FM and Auckland’s bFM. Early screen credits included co-directing a 2005 documentary on his old student flat, and reporting for Eating Media Lunch. In 2008 he began co-hosting political show Back Benches, filmed at a pub next to The Beehive. Over nine years, the show won fans for its ad-lib style, which mingled MPs with punters. The NZ Herald called it a "sort of Top Gear for politics". Chapman hosted Sunday Mornings on RNZ National from 2014 to 2018, before becoming host of The Panel.
Screenography
“He’s fascinated by politics but he’s not frightened to ask the very simple questions we sometimes forget to ask. He’s disarming because he asks that very hard question in a very simple, direct way. And he’s not mean, so his questions don’t upset people.”