Tough Country

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Tough Country

By: Mike Bellamy

Narrated by: Christopher Brown

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Tall tales of bushmen, bulldozers and back-country blokes

'It was the mid-1970s and I was about eight, I thought it was completely normal for your old man to pull out a high-powered deer-hunting rifle and fire it through the kitchen door from the breakfast table...'

In the 1970s and 80s, Barry Bellamy was a fair old bushman, traversing the back-country from Hawke's Bay to the far north in a blue ex-airforce Land Rover. His son Mike would join him as he took up work, wherever he could get it. Tough Country is Mike's story, about a bygone era of bushmen, scrub-cutters, hunters and shepherds. Later, Mike forged his own life working on the land, and his stories of the characters of the 1980s and 90s, from tradies to digger-drivers, are as hilarious as they are quintessentially Kiwi.

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As a Kiwi brought up in the country on sheep stations and a dairy farm in the 50s and 60s, I was disgusted by the dreadful narration. I have never heard any Kiwi use that cringeworthy accent. The thought that non-Kiwis will get the impression that Kiwis talk like that is sickening. I reckon a certain famous Kiwi author who wrote about life out woop woop will be turning in his grave.

Good yarn but terrible narration

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