Leighton Smith (radio)

Leighton Smith (b.13 Dec 1947) is an Australian-born talkback radio host based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is on air, Monday to Friday, between 8:30 a.m. and midday NZST on foreign-owned media conglomerate, Newstalk ZB.

He always starts his show with a monologue of a few minutes discussing his thoughts on recent events and setting a few potential discussion topics for the talkback part of his show. Smith is a right-winger, an advocate of social authoritarianism and a denier of anthropogenic global warming. He sometimes posts links on his own personal web site relating to issues he has raised.

In a 2007 interview with libertarian magazine the Free Radical, he described himself as somewhat libertarian. He owns the Clevedon Hills vineyard, near Auckland.

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