Close Up
Television New Zealand's hour-long weekly current affairs programme presenting mini-documentaries on topical local issues.
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1A Drop in the Ocean A Commission of Inquiry began sitting in Wellington today, to consider the future of the tiny island nation of Nauru. Over the past decades, much of the phosphate on the island has been dug out and shipped to New Zealand. Is New Zealand to blame for the devastation of a nation?
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2Close Encounters The Church of Scientology is recruiting followers by accosting them on the street and asking them to take a personality test. The test then declares they are unstable, insane and with murderous tendencies. Is any organisation justifiably able to make such a claim within 30 minutes of meeting a complete stranger? A look at the Scientologists' technique of 'body routing'.
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3Heart 'n' Soul Profile of soul musician Stevie Wonder who is touring New Zealand next month. He has taken two young blind Australian musicians under his wing.
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4Update on a story from a couple of weeks ago about J Force, the New Zealand troops who served in Japan after World War Two.
Primary Title
- Close Up
Date Broadcast
- Thursday 22 October 1987
Start Time
- 21 : 00
Finish Time
- 22 : 00
Duration
- 60:00
Channel
- TV One
Broadcaster
- Television New Zealand
Owning Organisation
- Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand
Programme Description
- Television New Zealand's hour-long weekly current affairs programme presenting mini-documentaries on topical local issues.
Classification
- Not Classified
Owning Collection
- Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
- Television
Languages
- English
Captions
Live Broadcast
- No
Rights Statement
- Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Genres
- Current affairs
Hosts
- Terence Taylor (Presenter)
- Brett Dumbleton (Presenter)
Reporters
- Brett Dumbleton (Reporter, Television New Zealand)
- Jeff McMullen (Reporter, 60 Minutes, Australia)
- Terence Taylor (Reporter, Television New Zealand)
Speakers
- Bruce Gibson (Senior Minister, New Zealand Church of Scientology)
- JUlie Olsson (Teacher)
- Kinza Cloduma (Nauru Minister of Finance)
- Mike Ferriss (Public Secretary, New Zealand Church of Scientology)
- Professor Barry Connell (Spokesman, Commission of Inquiry)
- Professor Paul Zimmet (International Diabetes Institute Director, Monash University)
- Reverend Itubwa Amram (Minister, Nauru Congregational Church)
- Russell Marshall (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Labour Party)
Locations
- Nauru
Contributors
- John Hagen (Director)
- Ross Stevens (Director)