Ngā Puna - In Touch FM

If you think I’m going to give up the Canadian job so you can saddle me with some tin-pot, haere mai everything is ka pai radio station, then you’ve got another thing coming, Sir Hugh. I’ll quit first.

– Katerina (Vicky Haughton) bluntly rejects the proposed contract with In Touch FM

You never lost it. You just need to beat the tūtae outta you.

– Tony (Lawrence Makoare) challenges Arama (Toko Pompey) to confront his past and share his story on air

Look, this radio thing isn’t going to work out. I don’t know if I’m gonna make it through my six-month contract. I wouldn’t be surprised if I have a desk full of resignations tomorrow.

– Katerina (Vicky Haughton) confides in her nan Tatiani (Merimeri Penfold)

How the hell was I to know she was related to the battle axe of the North?

– JD Nepia (Joe Naden) reacts to Katerina's powerful family connections

Aside from acting in The Billy T James Show and TV3 drama Homeward Bound (as the local headmaster), Shortland was writing. He scripted two 45 minute dramas for Don Selwyn’s He Taonga Films ... part of a series of dramas grouped together under the title Ngā Puna. 

– Waihoroi Shortland's biography, New Zealand On Screen