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Real Life With John Cowan

John Cowan hosts ‘Real Life’, a weekly nationwide chat show on Newstalk ZB featuring a different high-profile guest every week. John talks with them about their life, their upbringing, their passions and their view of the world.

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23:59

Robert Vennell

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/10/15

Robert Vennell is an ecologist and best-selling natural history author. His first book, The Meaning of Trees, was listed as one of the best non-fiction books of 2019 and was longlisted for an Ockham New Zealand Book Award. His second book, Secrets of the Sea, was selected as a finalist in the illustrated non-fiction category of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2023. His latest – The Forgotten Forest – explores the hidden world of mushrooms, mosses and moulds and was released on October 5th.Robert

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23:10

Clint Roberts

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/10/08

Born in Rotorua, Clint is co-host of ZM's drive show, Bree & Clint, with Bree Tomasel. Clint started working at The Edge in 2006. After filling in on the breakfast show at the end of 2013, he started co-hosting The Edge Afternoons with Guy, Sharyn & Clint and The Edge Fat 40 with Guy, Sharyn & Clint from 2014. In 2015, he hosted Hot Right Now on The Edge TV and co-hosted The Xtra Factor. He began co-hosting the breakfast show on George FM in 2017 and in July 2018, he left to co-host Bree

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24:06

Zennon Wijlens

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/10/01

Zennon walked out of school at 16 years old and talked himself into a job in a restaurant kitchen at Titirangi’s Barossa. After six months, he moved to Auckland's Euro restaurant, then helmed by Simon Gault. Three years later Zennon moved to Australia, where he honed his skills in some of Australia’s most esteemed kitchens. Zennon returned to Cibo in Auckland before going on a nine-month culinary tour of the world, during which he ate at 34 of the World’s Top 50 restaurants. He joined Auckland

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24:39

Shae Ronald

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/09/24

Shae Ronald is the CEO of YouthlineSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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22:43

Michèle A'Court

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/09/17

Michèle trained in journalism and has a degree in English literature and drama from Victoria University of Wellington. She started doing stand-up comedy in the 1990s and has toured New Zealand and international venues with her stand-up comedy shows. Michèle has appeared in many TV shows, including What Now, 7Days and The Project, and was the winner of “Comedienne of the Decade” at the 2010 NZ Comedy Awards.Michèle has written two books, Stuff I Forgot To Tell My Daughter and How We Met, has written

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24:44

Matt Gibb

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/09/10

Born and raised in Christchurch, Matt attended Burnside High School. He performed in the improvisation comedy Scared Scriptless.Matt started as a teenager presenting kid's television show Squirt, before moving on to Studio 2 Live. He recently returned to New Zealand after 6 years in Sydney where he was a Senior Producer for the Australian Broadcasting Company. Before leaving for Sydney in 2015, he hosted the travel segments on TVNZ's weekly lifestyle show Kiwi Living. He was a regular host on

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21:28

Kaitlin Aldridge

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/09/03

Kaitlin completed a Bachelor of Broadcasting Communications in Journalism at the New Zealand Broadcasting School. She was a newsreader and editor at Mediaworks from 2012 to 2014 before moving to TVNZ in 2015, starting off on Breakfast, before reporting for 1 NEWS, and most recently as a reporter for Fair Go. In that time, she has made her mark covering the Tasman wildfires, pushing to highlight the emerging workplace disease accelerated silicosis, and more recently, having her feet on the ice in

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25:02

Todd Muller

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/08/27

Todd was born in Te Aroha and was raised in Te Puna, north of Tauranga. He attended Tauranga Boys College before earning his Master’s Degree from the University of Waikato. He joined the National Party in 1989 and from 1994 to 1997 he served as Executive Assistant to Jim Bolger during his second term as Prime Minister. He is a former University of Waikato Councillor and sat on the Boards of Plant & Food Research and the Sustainable Business Council. He was also the General Manager for Zespri,

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24:05

Petra Bagust

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/08/20

Petra has worked in TV and radio for over 30 years. She grew up in Christchurch and attended the University of Canterbury, where she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She began her television career at local TV station Cry TV and later co-hosted youth TV series Ice TV and Ice As. She went on to host What’s Really In Our Food? and present TVNZ’s Breakfast.Most recently, Petra has moved into podcasting, hosting two podcasts - Grey Areas and Sunday Sanctuary. Grey Areas remained in the top 10 Apple

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22:50

Alfred Ngaro

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/08/13

Alfred Ngaro was raised in Te Atatū where he attended the local schools, played for the local Rugby clubs and was an active Te Atatū St Giles Church member. He trained and qualified as an electrician and also completed his theological degree at the Bible College of New Zealand.Prior to entering Parliament, Alfred was a consultant in community-led development and governance with expertise in New Zealand, Cook Islands and Canada. He co-pioneered multiple community initiatives such as the Tamaki

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24:02

Antony Loewenstein - Journalist & Author

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/08/06

Born in Melbourne, Antony Loewenstein is an Australian-German freelance investigative journalist, author, and filmmaker. He co-founded of Declassified Australia in 2021 to uncover Australia’s often secretive relationships with the world. He’s worked in dozens of countries worldwide and was based in South Sudan in 2015 and East Jerusalem between 2016 and 2020. He has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, Sydney Morning Herald, and The

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24:30

Julie Goodwin

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/07/30

Since becoming the first-ever winner of the competitive cooking reality show MasterChef over a decade ago, Australian mum-of-three Julie Goodwin has become a household name. Formerly an IT professional, Julie was thrust into the limelight and TV shows, best-selling books, radio, appearances, columns, and endorsements were all to follow. Her long-time dream of opening a cooking school was realised when she became the resident weekly cook on the Australian breakfast show Today and began her almost

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24:14

Brad Olsen

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/07/23

Originally from Whangarei, Brad completed his undergraduate studies at Victoria University of Wellington, finishing with a BCom and BA. Brad joined Infometrics in July 2015 as a part-time data analyst while studying and has risen to be one of New Zealand’s most prominent and youngest economic commentators. He was appointed Chief Executive and Principal Economist of Infometrics in February. At present, Brad is focused on New Zealand’s economic recovery from COVID-19 and what emerging trends from the

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22:42

Dr Bronwyn Wood

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/07/16

Bronwyn has a background in social science education and textbook, curriculum and resource development. She researches in the fields of education policy, citizenship education, youth sociology, youth politics and geographies. She has strongly advocated for lowering the voting age to 16 in New Zealand and enhancing civics education in schools.In 2016 Bronwyn was awarded a Research Excellence Award from the Victoria University of Wellington, and in 2019 received the Early Career Research Excellence

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25:02

Dr Rangi Mātāmua

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/07/09

Rangi's career in Māori astronomy began in 1995 when he asked his grandfather about Matariki. He went on to write his MA thesis on traditional Tūhoe weaponry, and his 2006 PhD at Massey University was titled Te Reo Pāho: Māori Radio and Language Revitalisation. He moved to the University of Waikato, becoming a Māori and Indigenous Studies professor. In 2021 he became a Professor of Mātauranga Māori at Massey University's Te Pūtahi-a-Toi School of Māori Knowledge. In 2019 Rangi was awarded the Prime

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24:00

Courtney Johnstone

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/07/02

Courtney Johnston took up the role of Tumu Whakarae | Chief Executive at Te Papa Museum in 2019. Raised on a dairy farm in Taranaki, Courtney has lived and worked in Wellington since 2000. She holds a Masters in Art History from Victoria University of Wellington, and was the 2015 recipient of a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Scholarship to research contemporary museum practice in the United States.She went on to roles at City Gallery Wellington, National Library of New Zealand, and as general

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23:18

Lan Pham - Green Party Candidate

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/06/25

Lan is a proud mother who grew up in Wellington and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in ecology from Massey University before moving to the South Island to work for the Department of Conservation in freshwater ecology, which prompted an interest in freshwater fish. She completed a Master of Science in ecology at the University of Otago.Lan was elected to the Canterbury Regional Council at the 2016 New Zealand local elections and was selected by the Green Party to contest the Banks Peninsula

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24:26

Ian McInnes - Tearfund CEO

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/06/18

The CEO of one of the country’s most prominent international aid agencies believes “rampant inequality” in our supply chains makes it near-impossible to make totally ethical decisions about the things we buy. Ian McInnes, who heads up Christian non-profit Tearfund, says Kiwis “haven’t got a clue” how to avoid buying consumer goods that have involved the exploitation of labour or other unethical practices. “The short answer is no, just because of the rampant inequality in the system,” he told

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22:57

Shaun Wallace (The Dark Destroyer)

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/06/11

Shaun Wallace is almost always the smartest person in the room. Known best as the ‘Dark Destroyer’ from TVNZ1’s The Chase, Wallace is a quizzing master and one of just five people deemed clever enough to be among the show’s chasers. But he was never meant to make it to these heights. “People think I was born rich, they think I was born clever, they think I was born famous. And it’s important to tell them the back story. It’s important to say it’s been tough,” Wallace told Newstalk ZB’s Real Life

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24:03

Lotta Dann MNZM - Author

Real Life With John Cowan ·

2023/06/04

Lotta Dann is a former TV journalist, producer, and director turned author when she got sober in 2011. She became a household name when she confessed on national television in 2014 that she had a drinking problem. Lotta grew up in Christchurch, the second of four sisters. Her dad, leading QC Chris McVeigh, was famed for his role in the iconic Kiwi satirical show, A Week of It. Lotta’s blog, Mrs D is Going Without, began as a personal diary. The blog became a book of the same name, and then a second

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