Stevens, Ross

He did his M.A. in English at the University of Otago and became a subeditor on the Dunedin Evening Star. He joined the N.Z.B.C. in Dunedin current affairs and has worked mainly on national radio’s Checkpoint although other current affairs programmes he compiled included two Insight 72s, one on the Clutha Valley and another on New Zealand’s wine industry. (Ross thought in 1972 that New Zealanders would very soon produce fine wines as a matter of course.)

He is emphatically not what he calls a baiter. He likes people and likes a friendly approach for interviews. His particular interest is the development of art in New Zealand. He is passionately interested in art, but doesn’t do any himself apart from what he calls a bit of tapestry inspired by a recent exhibition of twentieth century French tapestries. His first work in television was with Hal Weston in Dunedin.