TELEVISION

SATURDAY MARCH 27

FARMING: FORD RANGER NZ RURAL GAMES 2021 (Three, 5.00pm). An hour-long highlights of the annual event that was held earlier this month in the big smoke of Palmerston North. The city’s Square was the venue for three days of competition for sheep-dog triallists, shearers, woodchoppers, tree climbers, coal shovellers, speed fencers, Highland gamers and, of course, gumboot and cowpat throwers.

The first of a three-part archival series about the history of the country’s lorry industry, which has come to dominate the movement of freight around the country since the 1980s. The first episode