Pat’s career includes many years of teaching, radio broadcasting, film making, lecturing in broadcast journalism at The University of the South Pacific and working in Development Aid projects in the South Pacific region and Africa. He worked for over twenty years for Radio NZ in News, Radio Documentary Unit and was the first Manager of The Radio NZ Continuing Education Unit (CONTED).
He has NZ qualifications in teaching, literature and drama. These skills were put to use in his Development Aid work with short and long term projects media education in Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and South Sudan.
In recent years he has devoted his energies to writing film and stage scripts, poems and short stories which may be viewed on this website.
He is an artist with a small output and recently designed posters for some of his film scripts including Moscow Antigone, The Fires of Troy, Mapogo and African Avenger.
In his spare time Patrick drinks many cups of coffee, enjoys classical music, reads disturbing books, views and listens on radio to world and domestic news, dramas and Shakespeare productions on screen. He has directed radio and theatre plays in several different countries.