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Speaker 1: There are three particularly big reasons why we love New Zealand,

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Speaker 1: apart from the fact that it's so beautiful. It gave

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Speaker 1: us crowded house. It gave us Russell Crow, and it

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Speaker 1: gave us Roy Billing. And Roy Billing is joining us

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Speaker 1: this morning.

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Speaker 2: Hello, good morning, Good luring Roy.

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Speaker 1: You are in a remarkable place to die, which starts

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Speaker 1: Sunday night on Channel nine, a murder.

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Speaker 2: Mystery story set over four weeks. What can you tell

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Speaker 2: us about it?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a sort of there's four one and a

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Speaker 3: half hour episodes. They eat separate stories.

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Speaker 1: And their own.

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Speaker 3: Oh there's a sort of a bit of a through line.

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Speaker 3: But it's sort of a bit like Midsummer Murders or

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Speaker 3: Broken Wood, you know that. And I'm an episode two,

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Speaker 3: and I might not be the murderer.

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Speaker 4: Oh look him too much away there doing your job,

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Speaker 4: you get drawn to some incredible roles made over the years,

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Speaker 4: this glorious career of yours. What you sort of take

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Speaker 4: roles because I keep you interested in is it has

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Speaker 4: to be something a bit different.

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Speaker 3: You know, I usually take whatever comes along. Everything's pretty good.

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Speaker 3: I get off with some pretty good roles.

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Speaker 1: I can't complain, so It's set in Queenstown, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so beautiful title. The title A Remarkable Place to

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Speaker 3: Die is a pun on the remarkable mountain range there.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful looks it looks. I mean I've seen two of

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Speaker 3: the episodes now they've just started screening it here. Just beautiful,

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Speaker 3: beautiful countryside. It's so nice down there, is it stunning? Mon?

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Speaker 4: Do you only died? I went shopping in Queenstown once

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Speaker 4: and it's so expensive.

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Speaker 2: You went shopping, shopping and things like that, of.

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Speaker 4: Course, yeah, but beautiful spot.

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Speaker 2: It was worth every cent.

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Speaker 1: You spent a long time living and working in Australia,

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Speaker 1: but you're back in New Zealand now, aren't you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I've been back here for about what nearly six years?

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Speaker 3: I mean I still work in Australia a lot, but

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Speaker 3: I live on I live on Wayhiki Island, which is

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Speaker 3: sort of a suburb of Auckland. You get to by

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Speaker 3: Fairy Such that's sort of a nice spot too. Lots

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Speaker 3: of vineyards and restaurants, big terrorist spots and mate.

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Speaker 1: You have been in some wonderful shows on our screens here.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorites is Jack Irish.

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Speaker 2: Was that just a joy? To work with that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just love him for starters as they was.

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Speaker 1: It a wonderful cast and crew.

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Speaker 2: To work with.

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Speaker 3: It was just great. You know, it was really sad

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Speaker 3: when it all finished. We all got on so well

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Speaker 3: and such good good writing and good stories and very

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Speaker 3: very popular.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got a few good chats with Guy over

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Speaker 4: the years.

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Speaker 2: Mate.

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Speaker 4: I want to know, being a rock fan, about your

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Speaker 4: prog rock days, your psychological progressive rock band, the Ministry

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Speaker 4: of Fog. What was that all about?

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Speaker 3: Well? I used to play base badly in a band

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Speaker 3: when I was in my team, yes, sixty years ago.

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Speaker 3: We used to sort of play around the university circuit

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Speaker 3: and we did a lot of Hendrix stuff Yep and

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Speaker 3: Morrison and whatever. I mean, that was good fun, but

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Speaker 3: it was I was never going to make it as

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Speaker 3: a serious based.

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Speaker 4: Part of that rhythm section.

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Speaker 1: Importantly, prom One of the last things we saw you

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Speaker 1: in was on the ABC Austin which with the unlikely

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Speaker 1: superstar Michael Theo. Is there any chance there might be

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Speaker 1: another series?

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Speaker 3: Yep, that's I think they're in the UK at the

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Speaker 3: moment filming. I'm coming over to Canberra late January February.

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Speaker 3: Series two so too has been shot as we speak.

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Speaker 2: Great news, excellent news.

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Speaker 3: And that was good. Wasn't that a great guy to

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Speaker 2: He's delightful you know.

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Speaker 1: Actually we interviewed him after after the show came out.

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Speaker 2: He was absolutely delightful. He loved doing it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he had a great time. We all did. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was such a nice god to do it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, They've be lovely to get you over here. We'll

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Speaker 4: get these new film studios being built in a suburb

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Speaker 4: in our northern suburbs in Malaga here in Perth and

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Speaker 4: they'll be up and about. So you might be getting

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Speaker 4: a few calls to travel to Western Australia. But it

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Speaker 4: is great to see the local community well right across

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Speaker 4: Australia getting support like this. And this facility is going

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Speaker 4: to be just incredible.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting because the company that shot the remarkable

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Speaker 3: Place to Die screen time, they're just they're opening a

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Speaker 3: big news studio down in Queenstown because there's so much

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Speaker 3: stuff shot down there.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good. All that's because it gives work to locals.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, and not just on camera too, a lot

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Speaker 4: a lot of people from right across it, right, right, that's.

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Speaker 1: Right, Well, I mean another one of your lots, Sam Neil.

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Speaker 1: He's been spending a lot of time here making the twelve.

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Speaker 1: The twelfth, Yes, yes, and in a beautiful spot called York,

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Speaker 1: which is just seamless for filmmaking.

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Speaker 2: So hopefully maybe we'll see you sometime soon.

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Speaker 3: Right, No, I went and I saw Sam, and when

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Speaker 3: I was shooting A Remarkable Place to Die in April,

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Speaker 3: went down to his vineyard. He was home for one.

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Speaker 3: How very nice, the lovely, lovely, beautiful vineyards he's got.

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Speaker 3: You know that he's away so actually still working. You know,

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Speaker 3: he's my agent. He just never stops working. It's just great,

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Speaker 3: lovely man.

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Speaker 2: I hope that neither of you ever do stop working.

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Speaker 1: A Remarkable Place to Die start Sunday night on Channel

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Speaker 1: nine at eight o'clock Lovely to Chat with You Roy,

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