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He was very authentic and relatable with a relaxed manner which suited our day completely. Thanks so much for helping to make the Fellowship Dinner such a big success! You were a fabulous host and entertainer. Talent Search Shortlist 0. He has an extensive career in documentary making, writing, stage and screen directing, as well as being a celebrated comedian and satirist. Social Links. Te Radar. Book Te Radar Add to Shortlist.

Te Radar spoke for an enjoyable 45 minutes and provided the perfect ending to conference. ExportNZ Awards Radar is a rare breed. James Swope - Creative HQ. Momentum Conference Feb Radar was a pleasure to work with and I was so impressed with how well he worked with Kate having not worked together before.

Thank you Te Radar. You are awesome. Water NZ Conference Sept As usual Te Radar was great, very knowledgeable in regards to the Conference kaupapa, never gets flustered under pressure and is a professional through and through!!

Frank Stevens, Avenues Limited. Steve Sheppard. Callaghan Innovation - November Radar was a fabulous MC, naturally taking the audience on the journey and filling the gaps well, and usually with laughter. Tara Sellers Callaghan Innovation. An absolute dream for event managers! Grant Whitehouse, Skeme Design and Consulting. Andrea Woollard - Marketing and Events Advisor. Ballance Agri-Nutrients Series - We initially engaged the services of Te Radar to emcee nine customer dinners throughout the country over a three month period at the end of We look forward to working together again some day.

Electricity Networks Association Dinner Oct Te Radar delivered a hugely entertaining and well-researched presentation to our annual conference, giving a potted history of infrastructure development in New Zealand in general, and the electricity sector specifically. Waipa Business Awards August Charlotte Toller "Te Radar was a consummate professional, he was extremely well prepared, very personable and he had the audience captivated. Maori Land Court "Te Radar was fantastic, totally lived up to my expectations.

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A few of these are featured here. If you would like to contribute a story, please email us at alumni otago. Prev: Suzie Bates. Next: Wayne Fairbrother. COVID information. Find out more Future student? Current Students Close. For Otago Staff Close. About University of Otago Close. Research and Enterprise at Otago Close. Learning and teaching Close. International at Otago Close. Alumni and Friends Close. Contact Otago Close. Overview Biography Screenography Awards More Information Te Radar — also known as Andrew Lumsden — is a writer and presenter, who brings a comic touch to documentaries and reality shows.

Read the full biography. Te Radar: Sustaining the laughter Interview, Seven Sharp - ongoing, Presenter - Television. He slowly built up his routines over successive stand-up gigs, persuading himself he would be "a better comic if I just turn up and improvise". Improv, he argues, provided a valuable grounding for his future presenting work Lumsden talks in detail about his comedy beginnings in this interview , for series Funny As. First year students at Otago were often given nicknames.

The name Radar stuck, although Lumsden procrastinated for a few years over using it professionally. In Te Radar made his television debut on stand-up contest A Bit More After Ten , then appeared on six seasons of Pulp Comedy , a series he rates as instrumental in improving the standard of Kiwi stand-up comedy.

When he joined sketch show Newsflash in — the year he shared the prestigious Billy T Comedy Award — he was credited as Andrew Lumsden. He played a peroxide haired reporter, and later described it as "the greatest and worst experience". One-off documentary Gather Round - Radar Goes to the Gathering marked one of Lumsden's earliest turns on-screen where laughter wasn't the main aim. The doco saw him visiting a legendary dance festival near Nelson. Thinking comedy might entice viewers to watch subjects they'd otherwise avoid — and keen to become "New Zealand's first comedy war correspondent" — he visited East Timor and Palestine, with former Spleen mate Aaron Watson.

His mission to eat chicken in Bethlehem on a shoestring budget was chronicled in 's War Tourist: Christmas in Bethlehem , for which he and Watson scored an interview with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Later Radar encountered a scorpion in Mali during this episode of Intrepid Journeys he'd turned down Borneo, because he was terrified of leeches.

Radar cemented his television fame with a run of prime time shows about sustainable living. Off the Radar was the first.