A New Zealand mayor set a new record on Sunday for the longest non-stop televised interview, the broadcaster NewstalkZB reported.
Tim Shadbolt, the mayor of the southern town of Invercargill, talked for 26 hours and four seconds.
Shadbolt and interviewer Tom Conroy were given a certificate by a representative from the Guinness Book of Records for the "interviewathon," which was designed to raise funds for the first aid group St. John ambulance.
The previous record, set in Spain in 2009, was 12 hours and 30 seconds.
Shadbolt discussed a variety of matters, "including his many, varied, and colourful past lives," NewstalkZB said.
The event, which was aired live, was also the longest one-on-one interview on any media and the longest single event on New Zealand TV, Conroy said.
