12:43 Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are expected
to visit a touring exhibition about whales from Te Papa. The exhibition tour
was only supposed to last for five years but is proving so popular in North
America that the collection of whale skeletons, skulls and other artifacts
might not make it back home until 2016 at the earliest. The latest stop is the
American Museum of Natural History in New York.
12:48 Waikato University is a stone's throw from
Hobbiton, making it the natural home of an international online research
project into what people REALLY think about the first of Sir Peter Jackson's
Hobbit movies. Dr Carolyn Michelle explains the three phase project and what
it's uncovered so far.
1:10 At The Movies: Sam Raimi's prequel to The Wizard of
Oz - Oz the Great and Powerful.
1:31 We meet the creatives behind a new hothouse for
Pacifica theatre - Polynesian Laboratory or P Lab - just what are founders
Shadon Meredith and Fasitua Amosa cooking up?
1:41 A story that will get you looking at mannequins in a
whole new light. One of the main producers of high-end mannequins for the past
75 years, Purfex, has closed down its Avondale factory and moving to new digs.
It's as good a reason as any to mark mannequins' contribution to fashion and
art - and in Auckland over the next few weeks there will be, fittingly, window
displays as well as a photographic exhibition at Lopdell Gallery. We chat to
mannequin maker Glen Wilkin Holland and Doris de Pont from the New Zealand
Fashion Museum.
1:53 Journalist, book reviewer and ghostwriter Margie
Thomson has now put her hand to writing novels - and won a new literary prize
for her first manuscript. The Masters of Creative Writing graduate produced a
sizable manuscript for a novel called The Rough Wind. While the $5,000 dollar
Sir James Wallace Masters in Creative Writing Award doesn't guarantee
publication, it will mean she can work on refining the novel.
2:05 The Laugh Track: Nick Rado, MC and comedian who's
about to perform at the Dunedin Fringe Festival.
2:27 Justin Gregory checks out The Rosebank Project, a
site specific work created for the Auckland Arts Festival.
2:39 New Zealand's representative at the recent Women of
the World Poetry Slam in the United States... in fact Ali Jacs was the only
'foreigner' taking part in this performance poetry event. She shares her
impression of the Poetry Slam scene in North America and compares it to the
much younger scene here in New Zealand.
2:49 In her new novel Anticipation Tanya Moir asks why so
many of us are obsessed with genealogy. Published by Vintage.
3:05 The Drama Hour: The conclusion to Dean Parker's Pure
in Body.
For more information and images visit the Arts On Sunday
web page: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/artsonsunday
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