BBC raw interview with PM, Helen Clark, 12.11.03

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2003
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30722
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Year
2003
Reference
30722
Media type
Audio
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Duration
00:38:45
Broadcast Date
12 Nov 2003
Credits
RNZ Collection
Clark, Helen, 1950-
British Broadcasting Corporation
Radio New Zealand (estab. 1989)
New Zealand. Parliament

This interview with the prime minister, Helen Clark, focusses on her personal, as well as her professional, life and experiences.
The interview by a BBC reporter (unidentified) in Wellington is being "produced" from London, and the producer, from time to time, asks (not heard) interviewer to expand on certain points etc.
Relevant audio excerpts are played (not heard) from time to time.
Topics covered include being a woman prime minister, a woman in Parliament generally, New Zeakland's reform-minded early government, her early schooling and farm life in Waikato. Sent to boarding school, blossoming only when at university, 1960s student life - protest, making a difference; father's conservatism, working as a university lecturer, going into politics, losing/winning elections, having friends, personal mission statement, Māori land rights, resolving Treaty issues, love of opera, New Zealand's international relations, life after politics, mountain climbing, her parents and husband, predicts New Zealand will become a republic but not in her lifetime, significance of rugby.