Truth and Soul

Send a textPaul Catmur chats with advertising legend Andy Blood on his storied life in advertising across both hemispheres.

Send a textPaul Catmur has a further chat with Damon Stapleton of Droga 5 NZ.

Send a textPaul Catmur interviews Jason Paris about his rise to CEO of ONE NZ (previously Vodafone) and his many successes en route.

Send a textPaul Catmur interviews globe trotting adman Rob Sherlock, previously global ECD of FCB,

Send a textPaul Catmur interviews NZ music legend Jim Hall about his many escapades.

Send a textPaul Catmur interviews agency great Ross Goldsack, previously head of Leo Burnett and Y&R NZ.

Send a textPaul Catmur interviews University of Waikato lecturers Dr. Mark Kilgour and Dr. Huw O’Connor - Part 1

Send a textPaul Catmur interviews University of Waikato lecturers Dr. Mark Kilgour and Dr. Huw O’Connor - Part 1

Send a textPaul Catmur interviews Shane Bradnick, CCO of TBWA NZ about his many siccesses and the transition from SA to AU to NZ.

Send a textPaul Catmur chats with his former boss and ex Global CEO of DDB Wordwide, Marty O'Halloran.

Send a textPaul Catmur talks with renowned London adman Sir John Hegarty, founder of BBH amongst many achievements.

Send a textPaul Catmur chats with Irish legend Mike O'Sullivan, previously ECD of Colenso, Saatchi's and Droga 5.

Send a textPaul Catmur chats with legendary creative director Toby Talbot and forever regrets taking a loo break in the middle.

Send a textPaul Catmur talks with Special NZ CCO Lisa Fedyszyn about her career as New Zealand's highest Scrabble score.

Send a textPaul Catmur chats with celebrated New Zealand artist (and ex-adman) Dick Frizzell about life, art and advertising.

Send a textPaul Catmur chats with multi award wining creative and founder of Pitchblack Partners, Josh Moore.

Send a textPaul Catmur chats with Jill Brinsdon, New Zealand's first female Creative Director and tries not to be accused of mainsplaining.

Send a textPaul Catmur talks to Superclient Mike Watson, the man who helped him get settled in New Zealand by agreeing to run Sky TVs multi-award winning campaigns.

Send a textPaul talks with Creative Leader Regan Grafton, currently at Thinkerbell NZ.

Send a textPaul Catmur talks with advertising legend Damon Stapleton currently of Droga 5 New Zealand.

Send a textPaul Catmur chats with advertising legend Andrew Stone previously CEO of Generator, Saatchi and Saatchi, and Droga 5.

Send a textPaul Catmur chats with Michael Faudet about making the leap from award-wining creative director to the country's best-selling poet.

Send a textHaving interviewed much of New Zealand advertising royalty over the years the tables are turned as creative legend and former agency owner Richard Maddocks interviews Paul Catmur.  This was prompted by the recent launch of his novel, The Gutter Bar, but don’t worry it’s not solely about self-promotion. Richard probes into Paul's chequered past to find out what he was doing in a Bahamas casino, how come he ended up living in New Zealand, what the court case in Australia was  about, his connection with The Tiger King, and some of the biggest disasters of his career. Paul anticipates you’ll enjoy the disasters. Richard and Paul tend to get quite animated when they catch up so the podcast is quite long, but hopefully you’ll find their rambling to be entertaining. This was Richard's first time as interviewer so it’s all his fault. You can always listen in two glorious sittings. And, to paraphrase Chairman Mao, the podcast of a thousand minutes starts with a single ear, so please dive in. Beginning at Y&R London in 1990, Paul made his way down to New Zealand in 2000 where he's worked for the best part of 25 years. He was the creative lead at DDB New Zealand, later extended across Asia Pacific. He's had a short-lived move over to George Patterson Y&R Melbourne before returning to New Zealand co-founding Barnes, Catmur and Friends with Daniel Barnes in 2008, which they later sold to Dentsu finishing up in 2020. He now lives near Matakana spending his time writing, fishing and dog walking. His first novel The Gutter Bar was published in December 2025. Name checks, in no particular order, go to Mike O’Sullivan, Pete Thompson, Marty O’Halloran, Paul Middleditch, Anita Davis, Russel Howcroft, Sharon Henderson, Jon Ramage, Daniel Barnes, Nick Gallagher, Rob Longuet, Brad Stratton, Kath Watson, Jack Vaughn, John Banks, Rupert Howell, Toby Talbot, Andy Blood, Nick Worthington, Mike Watson, Peter Masterton, Bridget Taylor, Regan Grafton, Tim Lindsay, Jerry Judge, Mike Babich, Dave Trott, Jeneal Rohrback, Paul Ardern, Charles Dickens.