Arts on Sunday for Sunday 24 February 2008

12:40 Feature Interview: (Music) Expat pianist Stephen de Pledge talks about the world premiere of Landscapes, the 12 piano preludes he's commissioned from 12 New Zealand composers. He will put a film of the concert on YouTube.

12:50 Feature Interview: (Film) Gaylene Preston and John Reid talk about the career of documentary/film maker Barry Barclay who died earlier this week

1:00 At the Movies with Simon Morris (Film)

1:30 Feature Interview: (Music) Taiko Drummers talk about blending music, martial arts and a physical workout, ahead of the first NZ Taiko Festival in Hamilton.

1:50 Feature story by Lucy Orbell: (Visual Arts) Artist Chris Morely-Hall on creating an urban soundscape.

2:00 The Laugh Track: (Comedy) Actress, director and now writer Ellie Smith on her career change and favourite comedy tracks.

2:20 Feature Interview: BBC item from The Ticket on an exhibition of Vanity Fair photographs in London.

2:30 Interview with Gary McKeonie, who is heavily involved in the UK literary scene and is coming to New Zealand to help writers and publishers break into the UK publishing market.

2:40 Writers: (Literature) Poets Stephen Oliver and James McNaughton about their respective new collections, Harmonic(pictured right) and I Want More Sugar.

2:50 Feature Interview: (Music) David Kilgour from Dunedin rockers The Clean on composing for a very different kind of dance floor -a contemporary dance called Flicker.

3:00 Radio Drama: Sons by Victor Rodger.

Rodger's Samoan father got two women pregnant within six months. He chose one as his wife. The other was Victor's mother who, with the help of her Scottish mother, raised him as a pakeha. His absentee father did not want Victor to have anything to do with his half bothers.

The Blue Girl - By Irene Ferguson
(Winning Adam award Portrait)