Back Benches Summer Tour 2012
TVNZ 7's Back Benches is hitting the road and heading on a Summer Tour of the central North Island. Starting in the Waikato and winding their way south, the team will be stopping in Rotorua, Taupo and Wanganui.
Hosts Wallace Chapman and Damian Christie will be joined by the local MP's and residents to talk about local issues, and a broad-ranging banter.
Back Benches is normally filmed LIVE at the Backbencher pub across the street from Parliament, every Wednesday. Self-professed politics-junkies, Chapman and Christie, moderate the discussion from the floor of the pub, as ministers and mavericks rub shoulders with skaters and spectators. The show attempts to demystify the world of New Zealand politic by bringing the Beehive to the barstools.
If you live or are on holiday in any of the locations, it is well worth heading along to be part of the exciting Back Benches pub politics mix. Times and locations are as follow:
Hamilton - LIVE Wednesday 18 January
The House on Hood
27 Hood Street
Hamilton
Rotorua - LIVE Wednesday 25 January
The Shed
1166 Amohau Street
Rotorua
Taupo - recorded on 26 January, screened on TVNZ
7 on 1 February
The Shed
18 Tuwharetoa Street
Taupo
Wanganui - LIVE Wednesday 8 February
Stellar
2 Victoria Avenue
Wanganui
