23 Nov 2022

Actor Bruce Hopkins is doing backwards somersaults for charity

From Nights, 10:45 pm on 23 November 2022

New Zealand actor Bruce Hopkins is fundraising for support service Grandparents Raising Grandchildren. His goal is 67 backward somersaults off a local wharf for his 67th birthday. He joins Karyn on the programme to tell us more.

Bruce Hopkins mid-somersault

Photo: Bruce Hopkins

Listen to Bruce's podcast The Long Way Home, which follows his journey to take his father and brother's ashes back home to Stewart Island by walking the length of New Zealand on Te Araroa trail.