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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Is the public service still Gliding On?
Description: Remember the Gliding On TV show about New Zealand’s tired old Public Service? It was a sit-com written by Roger Hall - adapted from a play he’d written called Glide Time and, if you remember it, you’ll know how it was about four staff working at a government supply office in the early 80s. I use the term “working” quite loosely. The show ran between 1981 and 1985 which meant it came to an end right at the beginning of the Rogernomics years. Imagine how the plot would have thickened if it had kept going? Giv...