12:45 Twenty years of wizardry
Sir Richard Taylor on 20 years of Weta Workshop wizardry,
lateral thinking, Thunderbirds, and how CGI hasn’t put model making out of
business.
1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
Simon Morris reviews The Judge, starring Robert Downey
Junior and Robert Duvall as father and son; Siddharth, in which a boy goes
missing in modern day India; and the frankly self-explanatory comedy Let’s Be
Cops.
1:34 World War One – A contemporary conversation
Crowds watching a procession of soldiers marching down
DunedinA new exhibition called World War One – A contemporary conversation, the
National Library of New Zealand is reflecting on the history and repercussions
of war and conflict. As well as displaying some of this country’s wartime
archives, it’s collected stories from migrant families who’ve come to this
country to escape recent and ongoing conflicts.
1:47 A Christmas Carol
Northern Ballet is one of Europe’s most adventurous and
successful ballet companies, and its Ballet Master Daniel de Andrade is
currently here recreating one of its most popular productions with the Royal
New Zealand Ballet Company. A Christmas Carol, performed for the first time outside
of the UK, will be touring the country.
2:05 The Laugh Track
Lisa Scott talks about her award-winning travel and
satirical writing and her latest book, Kindness and Lies, published by Bateman.
2:26 Moth City
Graphic novelist Tim Gibson is part of an ambitious
first-time collaboration involving artists from New Zealand and Taiwan. Moth
City's main point of difference, is mainly the digital storytelling devices
that it uses that imbues the traditional comic format with a sense of timing
and suspense normally reserved to film. The online distributor of Tim’s comic
that allows you to read a bit for free.
Publisher, journalist and chair of the Charitable Trust
that’s taken over the New Zealand Book Awards, Nicola Legat, responds to
criticism of the decision to delay the next awards until 2016. This follows NZ
Post’s decision to end its sponsorship arrangement with the awards.
2:49 The Painter in the Painting
Thirty years of lonely figures in unsettling landscapes have
come together in one exhibition of the work of artist Euan Macleod. The Painter
in the Painting is the title of a major survey show that has just opened at
Tauranga Art Gallery Toi Tauranga. To celebrate, Euan MacLeod has created a
special work for their foyer, a six meter high oil painting of two figures in a
boat, contemplating White Island. It’s easily his largest and as he tells
Justin Gregory, one of his most challenging.
3:05 The Drama Hour
The final part of Roger Hall’s Book Ends, a brand new short
story from David Hill, and Shakespeare expert Dr Hannah August chatting with
two of the Bardfest actors about romance, rhetoric and rhyme.
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