Bob Parker

Bob Parker did 12 years as guardian of the big red book, presenting and writing This is Your Life. Other presenting roles include Young Farmer of the Year and This is New Zealand (made in NZ for American cable television). He also appeared as a "weird dancing man" in the feature film Snakeskin. After doing time as mayor of Banks Peninsula in 2001, he began a six year stint as mayor of Christchurch in 2007.

I remember watching Brian Edwards on TV ... and thinking, now there’s a guy who is doing something he obviously enjoys, he has an interesting life, he is meeting interesting people and he looks pretty happy at what he’s doing Bob Parker in The Listener