In this episode Gyles and Aphra Brandreth’s journey around the Commonwealth takes them to New Zealand where they meet H. E. Bede Corry – the New Zealand High Commissioner to the UK at the time of recording and now the Ambassador to the USA. Meeting at the High Commission in London, he shares his love of New Zealand, and Literature, and discusses New Zealand’s poetry.
Poems this episode include Song of Allegiance, by R.A.K. Mason; Huia, by Bill Manhire; and Immigrant, by Fleur Adcock