Pat Brittenden (born 1973) is a

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broadcaster, blogger and political commentator.

Background

Educated in

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at Sacred Heart College and St Peter's College, Brittenden worked in current affairs and talkback for Newstalk ZB from 2004 until his resignation at the end of 2011. His stated reason for resigning was "to pursue some personal business opportunities". Brittenden has also worked for

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Auckland, Coastline FM (now More FM Tauranga), Life FM, Newstalk ZB and

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. He was for a time the weekend breakfast announcer at

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. Brittenden has been recognised both in New Zealand, and internationally for his broadcasting work including multiple wins at th
2014 New York Festival for World's Best Radio Programmes
and in London with th
Association for International Broadcasting (AIB)
for his work on
Newstalk BC
', an hour of radio theatre re-imagining the classic Christmas story for a 21st-century audience as a talk radio station set in Jerusalem on the morning of the 'first Christmas'. Brittenden hosted the show and also co-wrote and co-directed it wit
Christian Broadcasting Association

Podcasting

In the lead up to New Zealand's 2011 general election Brittenden created a PodCast with comedian

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called the ''Slightly Correct Political Show''. The show was broadcast on Facebook and featured a number of political figures. During this time Brittenden was employed by TVNZ's Breakfast programme providing election commentary. Brittenden currently hosts a variety of his own podcasts on his YouTube channel DOC Studi

based in Dunedin. One of these podcasts includes Big Hairy News (BHN), a political podcast which mostly covers national and international current events.

Acting

Brittenden had small guest parts in ''

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'', TV3 children's drama '' Secret Agent Man'', and as a VJ on ''

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''. He had a recurring role as security guard Merv in the 2008 political satire ''The Pretender''.

References

External links

Pat Brittenden website
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