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The Arts on Sunday

with Lynn Freeman

Sunday, Midday - 4pm

Audio from Sunday, 31 January 2010

Not all audio is available due to copyright restrictions.

12:40 Conservatorium - Chris Moore
Chris Moore, the Arts Editor for The Press, discusses the University Of Canterbury's planned Conservatorium, destined for the carpark at the Arts Centre. (duration: 9′19″)
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12:50 James Napier Roberstson
Writer-Director James Napier Robertson discusses his low budget feature film"I'm Not Harry Jensen", currently screening around the country. (duration: 13′34″)
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13:30 Short Film - The Six Dollar Fifty Man
NZ short film, The Six Dollar Fifty Man, had triumphed at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the Jury Prize for International Short Film-making. Lynn Freeman spoke to producers/directors, Louis Sutherland and Mark Albiston. (duration: 6′49″)
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13:40 Fractur
Take your cast, turn half of them into prisoners and half of them into guards, then lock them away in a hall for a few days. That's the recipe for a new play called Fractur. (duration: 8′46″)
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13:50 Architecture
Lucy Orbell wanders down Chews Lane for a look at some interesting Wellington architecture. (duration: 7′01″)
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14:25 Model Makers
Meet the genius model makers who are currently creating a robotic moa and recreating the giant Haast Eagle. (duration: 37′32″)
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14:35 Mentors
Find out why New Zealand doesn't have enough bright young things wanting to be literary editors, and plans to do something about it. (duration: 8′49″)
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14:43 Poetry - Vana Manasiadis
Greek-Kiwi writer Vana Manasiadis, discusses her new poetry collection, Ithaca Island Bay Leaves. (duration: 10′26″)
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14:50 Play - 360
Lynn chats to two of the creatives behind the play 360, which is what you'll be doing in your swivel chair to see all the action in this New Zealand International Arts Festival show. (duration: 7′14″)
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12:40 Arts Editor for The Press

Chris Moore brings us up to speed with the stouch over the conservatorium, comments on whether the Court Theatre is seriously looking to move out of the Arts Centre and says the new look Art Gallery sparks a fiery exchange between the director and unhappy punters.

12:50 Sundance Film Festival

We cross live to the Sundance Film Festival in the USA to find out what doors have opened for the Kiwi directors of the short film The $6.50 Man after it took out the all-important Jury Prize.

1:00 At the Movies with Simon Morris

Simon takes a look at the difference between box-office hits and Oscar hopefuls.

1:30 Harry Jenson

James Napier Robertson, the director of the New Zealand feature film Harry Jenson, on making and marketing it on the tightest of budgets.

1:40 Vanja Draganic

Vanja Draganic taps into personal experience to devise the documentary theatre work Fractur, based on a famous experiment on the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard.

Ed Shadbolt, Sal Edwards, John Bones, Gray Fredrikson (Photographer Bronwyn Williams)

Ed Shadbolt, Sal Edwards, John Bones, Gray Fredrikson (Photographer Bronwyn Williams)

1:50 Chews Lane

Lucy Orbell continues her occasional series on architecture, this time looking at the Chews Lane redevelopment in central Wellington.

Chew's Lane.

Gary Knight.2:00 The Laugh Track

Auckland, Christchurch and Nelson are being overrun with buskers - you’ll hear from one of them, Brit turned Kiwi Gary Knights

2:25 Model Makers

You’ll meet the genius model makers who’re currently creating a robotic moa and recreating the giant Haast Eagle.

Model Head of a bird.

2:30 Chapter and Verse

A new mentoring programme for young editors hopes to address a shortage of editors for New Zealand fiction. For more information about the editing mentor programme call Rachel Lawson (below left) on 04 237 3013 x 3975 or email. And the debut poetry collection Ithaca Island Bay Leaves by Vana Manasiadis (below middle and right).

Guests on Chapter and Verse.

2:50 New Zealand International Arts Festival

Two of the creatives behind 360 which is what you’ll be doing in your swivel chair to see all the action in this New Zealand International Arts Festival show.

3:00 Radio Drama

Three short plays devised and performed by the final year acting students at Toi Whakaari, the Drama School.

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Lynn Freeman

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Lynn Freeman

Produced by Simon Morris and Lynn Freeman

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