New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Talk-back tragedy ‘What Happened To My Dad’

Veteran broadcaster Bruce Russell lived to work. The radio station was his happy place and he looked forward to every shift as a talk-back host and presenter of a nostalgia show on Newstalk ZB.

So it was fitting, says his son Andrew, that Bruce took his final breath at work, shortly before he was due to go on air. There was a huge outpouring of grief when it was announced that the much-respected 71-year-old had died at the Auckland radio station just before his talk-back show in

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