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Frost Over New Zealand - The Leaders
Television (Full Length) – 1973
New Zealand politics was a gentler art in the pre-Muldoon early 1970s, when superstar English TV interviewer David Frost made the first of two series downunder. Here he talks to Prime Minister Norman Kirk, and opposition leader Jack Marshall. Kirk is assured and statesmanlike (an act that proves hard for Marshall to follow) as he discusses topics ranging from supporting beneficiaries, to opposing French nuclear testing. ‘Big Norm’ purposefully talks about being in the job for another 25 years. Tragically, he died in office 13 months later.
The political mountain flew to Auckland to enter the presence of television’s Mohammed. And glowed and glowed and glowed. It was his finest hour on the box.– Denis Wederell on Norman Kirk's appearance, The Listener, 31 August 1974, page 13
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