Locating the experts
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- Cobden School student
- We learnt that you need people from lots of different backgrounds like scientists and musicians. Where do you find these experts?
- David Filer
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We started off the series with a whole group of historical experts who wrote essays on which we based all the episodes. These are people who have been trained at university, they have (probably) two or three degrees, some of them, and they are recognised New Zealand historical experts. Then when we went out to do the research, we started looking for a wider range of types of experts – people who could talk about things like books and paintings, about what it was like to be in a war, about what it was like to be on an immigrant ship. These are more specialised, and our researchers – as Vincent said before – they went around the country and they talked to lots of people and they got the names of people who could talk about these things. The ones that we chose to film were the ones who were really good at talking on television.