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The Country Today - Mamma Mia edition

The Country
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The Country: It's a veritable Fieldays smorgasbord of interviews today, all set to a funky ABBA soundtrack which you can blame on Tim Dower. Interviews with: Peter Nation, Norm Hewitt, Te Radar, Louise Upston, Andrew Little, John Wilson, John Rutherford, Peter Readie and Lachie Johnson.

It's the whole show in one go! Today The Country is brought to you by the musical Mamma Mia. You can blame the ABBA-tastic soundtrack on Tim Dower whose buddy Waipu dairy farmer Lachie McLean is directing the disco extravaganza. Good luck Lachie!

On with the show: It's a veritable smorgasbord of interviews from Fieldays today as Jamie grabs people passing by for a chinwag about their experience at the big event.

So for brevity's sake, here's a list of who he caught up with today: Fieldays CEO Peter Nation, Former All Black and Triton Hearing Ambassador Norm Hewitt, Fieldays MC Te Radar, MP for Taupo Louise Upston, Labour Leader Andrew Little, Chairman of Fonterra John Wilson, the National Sales Manager for Allflex NZ John Rutherford, and finally the Farmlands head honchos, Peter Readie (CEO) and Lachie Johnson (Chairman) who give away a couple of Honda Pioneer Side by Sides live on air!

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