Listen to this Roadside Story about amateur middle-distance runner Peter Snell and his world-record-breaking mile race at Cooks Gardens, Whanganui, in 1962. In this period New Zealand sport remained overwhelmingly amateur. Snell was employed by a tobacco company in a public relations role that gave him ample opportunity to train.
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