12:43 The 100th anniversary celebrations of the Otago
University Sextet with all six members of this year's iteration of this
illustrious Capping tradition.
12:48 What it takes to programme your first regional arts
festival - the director of the Otago Festival of the Arts Alec Wheeler drops by
on the event's opening weekend.
1:10 At the Movies: Looper, Where Do We Go Now and The
Sapphires.
1:31 Climbing out of an urn where he's been stuck
rehearsing Samuel Beckett's play Play, is one of Dunedin's best known and loved
actors, Simon O'Connor.
1:41 Tairoa Royal and Taane Mete's Maori dance company
Okareka is about to tour their current show, Nga Hau E Wha. When that's over
they're straight into workshopping two new productions, one of which has
already caught the eye of the Edinburgh Festival.
1:52 Ella West drops by to talk about her contribution to
the Otago Festival of the Arts, The Middlemarch Singles Ball. it was a big hit
in the Otago township where it's set.
2:05 The Laugh Track: Dunedin filmmaker Aaron Watson
(pictured below) who started out in comedy in the city and now runs his own
company, Sabertooth Films.
2:26 Spooky Men's Chorale are starting a nationwide tour
at the Otago Festival of the Arts. They're serious singers who parody singing
styles and what it means to be a bloke.
2:36 Former member of Otara Millionaires Club and Radio
Backstab, Herman Loto Sakaria, aka Ermehn, is often referred to as the
Godfather of South Auckland hip hop. During his solo career he could be seen on
stage wielding a machete and wearing a lava lava, and he sourced inspiration in
his second album The Path of Blood through first-hand experience with
gang-life. But although he's still a South Auckland boy at heart,
seven years on he's come clean and living a different kind of life. Sonia Sly
talks to him about the old days, nerves and heading into the launch of his third
album Trained to Kill, produced by Anonymouz.
2:53 Dunedin artists Simon Kaan and Ron Bull who're just
back from New Mexico where they've been working on a project blending food and
art, Kai Hau Kai.
3:05 The Drama Hour: The first episode of a major
three-part drama. It's a special event to celebrate the fact that Charles
Dickens was born 200 years ago.
For more information and images visit the Arts on Sunday
webpage: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/artsonsunday
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