TY - JOUR AU - Oosterman, Allison PY - 2012/05/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - REVIEW: Everybody's uncle JF - Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa JA - PJR VL - 18 IS - 1 SE - Reviews DO - 10.24135/pjr.v18i1.300 UR - https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/300 SP - 225-228 AB - Review of: Scrim – the man with a mike, by William Renwick. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2011, 308 pp. ISBN 978-0864736956Biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres but New Zealand writers seem to choose their subjects from quite a narrow range of sportsmen and military figures. Few have chosen to write about historic media individuals. The last one I recall was Facing the Music: Charles Baeyertz and the Triad, by Joanna Woods (2008).Renwick sets out to put the record straight on some of the myths surrrounding this controversial broadcaster, a methodist minister, whose Friendly Road sessions on provate radio 1ZR in the 1930s made him one of the most popular men in the country.  ER -