Real life with John Cowan. 2016-03-27. 19:30-20:00, Rob Harley.

A weekly extended-interview programme broadcast nationwide on Sunday nights on Newstalk ZB. The programme features a different high-profile guest every week talking about their life, upbringing, passions, world-view, faith and spirituality. This recording is of a network feed from Auckland. There are holes in the broadcast to allow for stations to insert local content. Real Life with John Cowan is funded by NZ On Air. In today's programme:

Born and raised in Auckland, Rob Harley has spent nearly 30 years working in TV news and current affairs. During that time, Rob has worked on many different programmes including Frontline and Assignment, as well as making several documentaries.

Those documentaries have taken him to different countries all over the world including Cambodia, India, East Timor, Sudan and Kosovo.

Rob developed a series called Extreme Close Up, which ran on TV One for three seasons, featuring stories of people who had overcome adversity through personal faith and courage.

He has created a raft of DVD resources for churches, starting with a series called Journeys, designed to spark in depth conversation around faith.

Rob has written three books entitled The Power of the Story, The Power To Go The Distance and Brave, Mad and Memorable.

He has also worked as a communication consultant lending his compelling storytelling expertise to companies struggling to keep up with the changing pace of media in the 21st century.

Rob is married to Alison and they have two children.

[Rob also talks at the start of the programme about nearly dying in 2015, GW 29/3/16]