Friday, December 05, 2008

Arts on Sunday for 7 December 2008
Radio New Zealand National

1:50pm Publishing

Lucy Orbell considers the state of editing in the New Zealand publishing industry.

2:00pm The Laugh Track

Visiting Australian comedian Mickey Dee fills us in on the best of his comedic compatriots

2:20pm Sculpture Documentary

Sculptor Terry Stringer let filmmaker Bruce Morrison behind the scenes of his studio for a rare glimpse of Terry’s practice. The doco shows on Artsville on Sunday 14 December on TV One.

2:30pm Writer’s Block

Sonja Yelich imagines life as a teenage American marine in Iraq in her new poetry collection Get Some, while Stephanie Johnson reveals an old man’s terrible secret in her new novel, Swimmers’ Rope.
2:50pm The Painted Garden

Author/curator/art historian Christopher Johnstone walks us through the history of the New Zealand Garden as portrayed in art over the past 180 or so years.

3:00pm Theatre Review

Jackie Clarke reviews The Reindeer Monologues at Auckland’s Basement theatre.

3:07pm Radio Drama: Madness You Can Trust by Brian Sergent

A survival story based on the writer’s own experience of time spent in a ‘psych’ ward. By turns funny and heart wrenching it is ultimately a tale about the victory of the human spirit over adversity.

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