The BBC is treated with a forelock-tugging deference by the toadies who constitute the "management" at Radio New Zealand. Hence we are subjected to a stream of the likes of Simon Marks, Simon Schama [1], Matthew Parris [2], Dame Kate Adie, Dame Ann Leslie [3]...
There is of course no need for New Zealand to pay fees to substandard BBC hacks. We produce our own no-talents who are capable of equally dismal "reporting"....