The Department of Conversation with Pat Brittenden

David Hayward is a pastor turned artist painting, drawing, and thinking about what it takes to be free to be you. If you’re interested in deconstruction, spiritual journeying, freedom of thought, or looking for your authentic self, you’re welcome to join him while he searches too. Pat has been sharing David's art, especially the art that challenges the church on their LGTB

Raf is a multi-disciplinarian with a background in finance, governance, strategy, policy and risk. Raf has worked in banking, finance, governance, strategy, and policy and risk. He’s worked for start-ups, not-for-profits, and government, bringing a variety of perspectives to his role as the leader of The Opportunities Party (TOP). Raf spent two terms as a Christchurch City Coun

Grant Duncan PhD is a political commentator, academic, and non-fiction writer from Auckland, New Zealand. Grant is an Associate Professor in Politics at Massey University. We have a chat today about the political scene in NZ, why Christopher Luxon is not trusted and is media creating the narrative or reporting on it?

Tony Sutorius runs Porirua-based company Unreal Films. Sutorius first made his mark as a filmmaker with Campaign, a 1999 documentary about an election campaign. Since then his company has won a reputation as the company to call for films about elections, from training videos for electoral staff, to films promoting voting and explaining how it works. His latest project, Elements of

We're back baby for 2023 and this year we have pivoted slightly into focusing on political conversations. Simon Wilson is a senior writer with the New Zealand Herald. He is a former editor of Metro, Cuisine and Consumer magazines, and has also been chief subeditor for the New Zealand Listener and a commissioning editor for book publisher AH & AW Reed. He is the winner of many j

In the late 1960s David Fenton was a photojournalist, for Liberation News Service while also publishing in the NY Times, Life, Newsweek and others. In 1978 David was the director of Public Relations at Rolling Stone magazine. He was co-producer of the "No Nukes" concerts with Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor and many others

Mike Rinder is an Australian-American former senior executive of the Church of Scientology who has recently written about his experiences in the church publishing a memoir A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology. Mike joins Pat to talk cricket, billion-year contracts, rugby league, Xenu, dogs, South Park and any question Pat has about Scientology

Don McGlashan is a New Zealand composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist who Is best known for membership in the bands Blam Blam Blam, The Front Lawn, and The Mutton Birds, before going solo. He has also composed for cinema and television. Among other instruments, McGlashan has played guitar, drums, euphonium and French horn. Don is about to embark on a nationwide tour and joins u

Last weekend Stuff Circuit released a special project that explores who's driving a violent, misinformed New Zealand - and why. In the 'Fire and Fury' press release Stuff claims they "began with a day of violence but ended up somewhere much more frightening." Since Fire and Fury was released more news this week has been released about how some of those groups featured in the docume

Alex Holder is a British documentary filmmaker who filmed then-President Donald Trump and his family prior to the 2020 election loss to Joe Biden and on and in the lead up to Jan. 6, 2021 in his Discovery Channel, 3 part documentary series 'Unprecedented'. Later Holder was subpoenaed to testify before the Jan 6 House Select Committee and he provided them with hundreds of hours of f