Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrom novice workshop to Comedy Festival within a year
The Southside Queens of Comedy are six Maori and Pasifika wahine from South Auckland who came together through a free community comedy workshop in 20…
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Rose Matafeo's successful decade in the UK and once meeting Nelson Mandella
Rose Matafeo came home from London to star in New Zealand Spy, a new local comedy set in the 70s about the country's intelligence agency recruiting t…
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Anna Jullienne on playing the nanny who was shunned by The Royals
Marion Crawford, known as Crawfie, was nanny to Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret for 16 years before a very public falling out with the royal family…
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Todd Atticus designs a book cover live in the window of Wellington's Unity Books
Artist and book cover designer Todd Atticus is parked up in the window of Unity Books in Wellington this week, designing cover artwork for Mia Farlan…
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Cannabis, cannibalism and a $19,000 budget: Kiwi film, the Weed Eaters
The Weed Eaters is a Kiwi comedy-horror set in North Canterbury, following two couples on a New Year's camping trip who encounter a particular strain…
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Lisa Reihana’s ANZAC artwork featuring 180,000 shimmer discs
Lisa Reihana has spent more than three decades using film, photography and installation to centre Maori and Pacific perspectives in history. She repr…
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The Big Screen with Dan Slevin
Dan Slevin reviews three new releases: Michael, Antoine Fuqua's biopic of Michael Jackson starring the pop star's nephew Jaafar Jackson; The Time Tra…
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Specialist costume designer LJ Shannon on seven years dressing supervillains on The Boys
Laura Jean Shannon is a superhero speciality costume designer whose credits include Iron Man, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Murderbot. For the p…
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Brett Graham’s latest work and art always being his destiny
Brett Graham has been a prominent figure in contemporary Maori art since the 1990s, with work shown at the Venice Biennale and in collections around …
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Tyrone Te Waa: painting mattresses, marae memories and tuning peg teeth
Taumarunui-based artist Tyrone Te Waa's latest work draws on the mattress room of the wharenui at his marae, a space associated with play, sleep and …
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