Episode Details

Host: Dave Homewood

Guest: Peter Rowley

Duration: 51 minutes 14 seconds

Recorded: 7th of January 2014, via Skype to Peter’s home in Melbourne

Topic: Dave chats with well known and much loved kiwi actor Peter Rowley about his aviation background. As well as appearing on kiwi screens in such hits as A Week Of It, McPhail And Gadsby, The Billy T. James Show, A Letter To Blanchy, and as the Dog in the acclaimed Footrot Flats: A Dog’s Tale, Peter grew up in an aviation family.

His father was a wartime fighter pilot and postwar ran several agricultural aviation companies.

Peter himself became a recreational pilot and is a massive enthusiast of aeroplanes. He is currently working on a documentary series on women in aviation.

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Peter Rowley senior in front of his RNZAF Chance Vought F-4U1D Corsair in WWII

No. 16 (Fighter) Squadron, RNZAF.
F/O Peter Frederick Hodgson Rowley mid (and later OBE) is in the rear rank, third from the right.

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