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Catherine Ryan

Catherine Ryan

Kathryn Ryan (often misrendered "Catherine Ryan"), host of RNZ National's Nine to Noon and a veteran New Zealand radio journalist.

Oct 28, 2026

5:53
You've done stuff on Romanticy, haven't you?
5:55
It's a huge genre.
5:57
Yeah.
5:58
Huge genre.
6:00
And, you know, just get people reading.
6:02
Yeah.
6:03
And, you know, let the readers tell you what it is that they're into.
6:39
It's
4:20
So what are some of your top tips to festival goers this weekend?
4:24
Well, first of all, everyone just needs that.
4:27
Like, they're all panicked about, where am I going to park? Just go slow, go slow.
4:31
You will be sent by the guards to a car park.
4:32
You will find somewhere to camp.
4:34
It's very busy here, but there are spaces.
4:36
It just means maybe... searching a little bit further and just make sure you put your tent up properly use your guide wires again when you're leaving the tent because there is going to be downpours throw everything into a bin bag and put it up in your rear mattress or whatever you have at least that way if your tent does it's still dry
6:36
It's just there's going to be a bit of a bottleneck, isn't there?
1:11
Tell us about it.
1:12
Okay, there are about 40,000 people coming on the Thursday night.
1:15
I don't know if you remember this, Dermot, but I interviewed you two years ago at Media Day.
1:19
I do.
1:20
At Electric Picnic.
1:22
Yes.
1:22
Yeah, I asked you were you coming to the Thursday night to help us break the world record.
2:25
Any advice for when the rain does come? What are your hot takes on this stuff, given you've been there so many times?

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