Catching the Tide: Sam Hunt's Cook Strait Trailer (1988)
"A place and its people"13 July 1988Factual48 mins
Originally made for NZ television in 1988, this one hour documentary is now something of a time capsule or historical piece. It's also a record of a peerless performance by one of this country's greatest poets.
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