[1] His broadcasting career began on student radio in Dunedin in the 1970s, where he had studied at the University of Otago, and later at the independent station 4XO, where he became breakfast host and programme director.
Mucking In featured a series of top New Zealand landscapers (including Tony Murrell and Richard Greenwood), and rewarded altruistic kiwis with new and sometimes spectacular gardens.
Mora has written for a number of book projects and has been a columnist for Metro magazine and the Sunday Star-Times.
He has directed several TV documentaries, and presented the regularly-viewed doco ‘New Zild’ (director John Milligan), about the particular ways and dialects of New Zealand English.
[5] Mora lives in central Auckland with partner Mary Lambie, herself an award-winning journalist and the former host of 'Good Morning' on TVONE.