Lee-Anne Duncan
The first time Lee-Anne Duncan met Tama Muru, it was on the steps of Radio Waitaki in Ōamaru at an unseemly early hour in February 1996. office, where he flourished into the globe-trotting senior producer he is today. As he’s always good for a yarn, Duncan (now based in Wellington) was keen to meet up with him in London this past July, to have a quick gander at the swanky BBC building in Central London, then finish off with a pint – an English APA to Muru’s German lager – at his favourite pub. Duncan was almost as excited about catching up with Muru as she was about visiting a 15th-century manor for another story. Coming from a country where anything built in the last half of the 19th century is , she says it was a treat to sit in a living-room built in the 1450s, surrounded by 17th-century panelling – especially since she didn’t have to dust it... +
