Open Door - START

Open Door is a community-based TV series where groups or individuals make a documentary about an issue that concerns them. This episode is about the Stuttering Treatment and Research Trust, or START. The documentary interviews high profile Kiwis who have learned to control their stutters - Principal Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft, TV host and public speaker Ian Grant, former All Black Royce Willis, and unionist and political adviser Matt McCarten. Speech experts and the parents of young stutterers seeking treatment at START also feature.

To ask a question in class would be one of the most terrifying things on earth for me.

– Stutterer and former All Black Royce Willis

Key Cast & Crew

Trevor Conn

Director

Shirlie Fairbrother

Producer

Drew Watkin

Narrator