Radio star Nathan Rarere BACK IN THE SADDLE!
Jan 17, 2021
4 minutes
TEXT: NICOLA RUSSELL.
‘I had a little tear in my eye when it went back to normal’
Radio Sport may have been silenced in the dark days of 2020, but its former presenter Nathan Rarere hasn’t. Nine months on from the station’s closure, the seasoned broadcaster is the new host of RNZ’s First Up.
And while the 48-year-old father-of-two is excited about the new role, he’s also candid about the challenges that led to the change.
“I lost my job three days into lockdown,” he says. “I was sitting at home, couldn’t go job hunting and didn’t know how long the pandemic was going to last for. I was looking around the house and thinking,
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