The radio programme Country life is broadcast after the seven o’clock news on Saturday mornings, and includes a wide range of items of interest to rural listeners, including a regional roundup of events, weather and growing conditions for the past week. Listen to the start of the programme for 11 March 2006.
Transcript
Announcer: Time is approaching nine minutes after seven.
David Knowles (DK): Gidday!
Tani Oolders (TO): Kia ora!
(DK): David Knowles in Wellington
(TO): and Tania Oolders in Christchurch with an amazing addition of Country life.
(DK): Yes, this week's programme has been 'cobbled' together in rather a corny way.
(TO): If you haven't guessed, we are investigating maize today.
(DK): Go on admit it, you spent a lifetime driving past those tall fields of maize, haven't you. but you don't know anything about them.
(TO): Yeah I always wondered what went on behind those tall stalks, well, stay tuned in and you'll learn all about it.
(DK): We're also bring you the story of someone who went lifestyle farming in and threw in the gumboot, clearly the rural lifestyle isn't necessarily for everyone.
(TO): And as usual we update you on conditions around the country.
(DK): But first today's guest we met him in the Waikato town of Matamata.
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