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Wells's treatment of Kiri Te Kanawa (at approximately 51 to 53 minutes), while attempting to interview her, was appalling, shameful, and embarrassing. After having peculiarly introduced his interviewee as "New Zealand's own imperial operatic empress", Wells went on to demonstrate that he clearly had no understanding of what a valuable contribution Te Kanawa was offering his programme! He actually CUT her mid-sentence and ended the interview!
And at that point I stopped watching.