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Bryan Bruce – from Mansfield to murder

Posted on 27 January 2010

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The star of TV ONE’s The Investigator, Bryan Bruce has made programmes on everything from Kiwi humour to mass murderers.

In this ScreenTalk interview, the director, writer and presenter talks about:

making his television debut interviewing Katherine Mansfield and Chopin, after a lucky break while playing piano in a bar
mortgaging his house to make a documentary on yachtsman Sir Peter Blake, then selling it around the world in the time it took Blake to sail into Auckland harbour
Some similar features of the famous New Zealanders he has profiled for documentaries, including Whina Cooper, Howard Morrison and John O’Shea
Discovering the common traits of mass murderers for the documentary In Cold Blood
How he takes the unusual approach of offering his own opinion, on true-life crime series The Investigator
How the secret drop box for The Investigator has received much worthwhile information

This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence

Credits: Direction and Interview – Ian Pryor. Camera and Editing – Alex Backhouse

Comments

by Maureen Huntley on 8 July 2010 at 5:42pm

Thankyou for the Bain Program – was well overdue! Very brave & much appreciated & also thought Robins Sister & Brother showed much dignity on close-up last evening which is more than can be said for the other person who looked like a cornered rodent.
Maureen & Ron

by msty msty on 31 August 2011 at 3:59pm

Dear Bryan,
I am writing to about Alan Hall and how most maori in papakura over the age of 40 know that the Ringrose brothers, Bart and harry were responsible for that murder. The police also know this and statements taken from Peter Bowman who saw these two men were never to anyones knowledge made available. In fact, the police harassed anyone who could definitely identify the men. A suspicion amongst maori in the community was that a ranked member of the police force in Papakura at that time owed the Black power big time.

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