Biography
Hopkins was scriptwriter for "Close to Home", presenter of "Fast Forward", "Don't Tell Me", "The Inventors", "Dateline Monday", a performer on The BNZ Festival Debates, and radio talkback host on Radio Pacific in Auckland and Radio Avon in Christchurch.
In August 1998, Hopkins released his first book, Blokes & Sheds, which hit number one on the New Zealand sales list after only a week. The book profiles amateur inventors from across New Zealand. Hopkins follows it up with another book, Inventions from the Shed, in 1999, and a 5-part film documentary series with the same name that features inventors across Australia.
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