Description
Few New Zealanders have lived the last decade in the raw glare of the spotlight as Paul Holmes has. He works in the public eye, married in the public eye, and separated controversially in its same brutal stare.
He is a broadcaster of strong views about the way broadcasting is done. He is known as a man who speaks simply, asks the questions people at home want answers to and does not boast about his meticulous research and reading of current issues.
His Newtalk ZB Breakfast show is listened to by more people than any other radio programme in the country and his nightly television programme Holmes remains, after ten years, the most influential current affairs programme in New Zealand.
Holmes is a broad-ranging, roller-coaster story of a life lived to the full, from Paul Holmes’s early life on a 1950s tomato farm in Haumoana in Hawkes Bay to his becoming one of the most recognised faces in post-war New Zealand.
Paul Holmes is a broadcaster distinguished by his range. He takes our senior political figures to task daily while maintaining the affection of New Zealanders for his common touch. He is a controversial man, admired by some for his direct and aggressive questioning and condemned by many for the same.
In Holmes he speaks of the years of learning his craft. New Zealanders knew little of Paul Holmes before the definitive night in 1989 when American yachtsman Dennis Conner walked out. The storm that raged made the Conner incident the most talked-about even in New Zealand television history and the New Zealand public took both Holmes and Holmes himself to heart.
Paul Holmes is a man whose private life intrigues New Zealanders as few others do.
Holmes is the story of the man who loves life and embraces people through the camera and the microphone as few have been able to do. This is the no-holds-barred story of the man radio and television professionals in New Zealand themselves acknowledge as our greatest broadcaster.
Hard cover. 296 pages. In excellent pre-loved condition.