This week's
stories
Iceland is very proud of its reputation, first, as a
country leading the way to secure pay equity for women, and second,
it's tiny number of murders. But Icelandic crime novelist Ragnar
Jonasson has started a trilogy of books about a senior woman detective
who's only known discrimination and bullying during her many years in
the police force, and who's being pushed to retire early.
Apr 15, 2018
02:35 pm
 
Filmed in nearly 50 countries on six continents,
kilometres underground and from outer space, an ambitious new 10- part
TV series explores the history and fragility of our planet. One Strange
Rock is hosted by actor Will Smith and shot for National Geographic.
Apr 15, 2018
02:26 pm
Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has
played Apple co-founder Steve Job's wife Lauren, and mountaineer Rob
Hall's wife Jan Arnold in contemporary, world premiere operas. She says
she relishes the challenge of being the first singer to tackle a role.
The (Re)volution of Steve Jobs earned her adoring reviews. But Sasha's
next appointment is with the classical repertoire and one of her great
loves, the work of French composers, for a three-centre tour with the
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Apr 15, 2018 01:50
pm
When George Bernard Shaw first tried to show his play
Mrs Warren's Profession in the late 1890s, the Lord Chamberlain banned
it because of its content - prostitution. The first production was in
1902 in a London members only club....there was no public performance
in England until 1925! Mrs Warren's Profession's notoriety has faded,
but the themes Shaw explored - women being underpaid and under-valued -
certainly haven't.
Apr 15, 2018
01:35 pm
With CNZ funding, the Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts
Trust has picked three Pasifika internships for young creatives with
big dreams. One of this year's group is museums and cultural heritage
professional Talei Si'ilata who's started her internship at Te Papa
before heading to Auckland Museum. We brought Talei together with the
first male intern to go through the programme Paul Fagamalo who's now
the Talent Development Manager at the NZ Film Commission Lynn Freeman
spoke to both Talei and Paul, and first asked why Paul wanted to work
behind the scenes rather than in the spotlight:
Apr 15, 2018
12:49 pm
There's been a lot of discussion recently on the thorny
subject of public service broadcasting - what is it, and why do we need
it? But maybe the answer is in the work of the English group of that
name. Public Service Broadcasting albums mix live music with historic clips
from the early days of film, radio and television in England. They've
got titles like The Race for Space, Inform Educate and Entertain and
last year, Every Valley. Public Service Broadcasting is about to play
at Auckland's Powerstation on May the 3rd. Before that, the band's
Number One fan, Phil O'Brien, gets to talk to the lead Broadcaster, the
wonderfully named J Willgoose Esquire.
Apr 15, 2018
12:30 pm
The story of New Zealand's fallen soldiers who remain
buried in foreign fields, often unprotected, and the whanau who want to
bring their remains home, is told in a new Maori TV documentary. In
Foreign Fields is hosted by Witi Ihimaera who shares his own story -
the pressure to return the body of one of his relations to Aotearoa New
Zealand. In Foreign Fields is directed by John Keir. John had his own
story of a lost soldier in his wife's family, and they'd visited
Gallipoli so they could find his grave. But John tells Lynn Freeman
that's not what started him down the path of suggesting the documentary
to Maori TV. In Foreign Fields premieres on ANZAC Day on Maori TV.
Apr 15, 2018
12:15 pm
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