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The Country Today - Game show edition

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29 Jul, 2016 01:33 AM2 mins to read

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It's the great Country game show! Brought to you by Jamie 'Prizes' Mackay and Dom 'Tough-Questions' George.

It's the great Country game show! Brought to you by Jamie 'Prizes' Mackay and Dom 'Tough-Questions' George.

It's the whole show in one go! Today The Country is brought to you by the 1974 Commonwealth Games theme. Whatever for? On this day in 1973 'Join Together' by Steve Allen became the official tune for the 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games.

So Dom is going to punish you with it for the next hour.
Excellent.

We have giveaways galore today so Jamie likens The Country to a game show. Professional.

On with the show: What's up with the weather? Lisa Murray from the Met Service knows. Apparently there's a polar blast but, once again, little by way of rain for North Canterbury.

Next up is the Farming Muster with Don Carson. Don has big topics today with Chinese ownership of our agribusinesses, pea problems in the Wairarapa, the Super Rugby and of course, the Pokémon Go craze. Sigh.

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Speaking of Don, there's another one on the show; Don Fraser! He's the man behind Fraser Farm Finance and he has a warning for farmers to learn from the lessons of the 1980s.

Enda Hawe can teach us all a lesson in how to Google answers. He's an Irish farmer from Ashburton, former NZ Sharemilker of the Year and a very savvy player of our Tru-Test Trivial Pursuit game.

With all the politics flying around this week it's lucky we have Barry Soper to wrap it all up for us. Today our political correspondent ponders predators of the New Zealand, Chinese and American variety

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Finally it's Grant Nisbett and this week's $100 TAB sports bet of the week. We're backing the Highlanders and sitting on the Hurricanes-Chiefs fence.

You can hear all about it in the Soundcloud embed below:

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