Her face is familiar to TV viewers as a journalist who championed the rights of Kiwis on Fair Go for many years, but it’s her dulcet tones people tend to recognise these days from Radio New Zealand. Anna Thomas, 56, catches up with the Weekly to fill us in on what she’s been up to since her Fair Go days and reflect on a varied career that she fell into by accident.
wanted to be a cop. I left school at 16 because I knew I was going to fail UE [University Entrance], but I was too young to go into the police. I’d always liked English and creative writing, and a friend told me about a job going at Radio Avon in Christchurch. They got me to write a story and speak into a microphone, and said, ‘Right, we’ll give you a whirl.’ I thought I was a general radio cadet and
