EPISODE · Aug 5, 2018
Weekend Variety Wireless - Hour 4 - 05/08/18
from Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill on RadioLIVE · host MediaWorks NZ
This week Gerard Hindmarsh joins Graeme Hill to discuss the Kiwi Cold War Sappers. He discusses a group of NZ military engineers who were tasked with clearing bugs from our Moscow Embassy in 1980 but went undercover as refurbishers and caught considerable hell. Gerard regales the particularly harrowing time endured by sapper Ian Stobie, pictured working at the embassy, and his fight for recognition.Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.
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This week Gerard Hindmarsh joins Graeme Hill to discuss the Kiwi Cold War Sappers. He discusses a group of NZ military engineers who were tasked with clearing bugs from our Moscow Embassy in 1980 but went undercover as refurbishers and caught considerable hell. Gerard regales the particularly harrowing time endured by sapper Ian Stobie, pictured working at the embassy, and his fight for recognition.Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.
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