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Arts on Sunday for Sunday 13 December 2009

  • Alex Broun - Short and Sweet

    12:41 PM.Australian Alex Broun is behind the first Short and Sweet 10 minute theatre festival in New Zealand on in Auckland in January. Audio

  • Lisa Walker

    12:50 PM.Expat jeweller Lisa Walker returns home from Munich as the New Dowse in Lower Hutt mounts a retrospective of her radical designs. Audio

  • Father and son creatives - Tom Scott and Samuel Flynn Scott

    1:10 PM.Cartoonist, playwright and filmaker Tom Scott and his son, musician Samuel Flynn Scoot discuss their musical tastes and their sussessfully careers. Audio

  • A Day in Pompeii

    1:35 PM.Patrick Greene and Lucinda Blackley discuss 'A Day in Pompeii' an exhibition that opens at Te Papa in Wellington, Saturday 19 December. Audio

  • 'Beloved' - Dunedin Public Art Gallery

    1:50 PM.Aaron Kreisler and Robyn Notman discuss the anniversary of New Zealands oldest public art gallery, celebrating its 125th year. Audio

  • Chapter and Verse

    2:40 PM.We explore Canterbury's landscapes and people in a new anthology of prose and poetry, Crest to Crest. Audio

  • Anya Noble

    2:50 PM.15 year old musician and inventor Anya Noble talks about her discovery about different coloured horse hair and violin bows. Audio

Alex Broun12:40 Writer, actor and director Alex Broun

A mover and shaker on the international theatre scene, Australian Alex Broun (right), who is behind the first Short+Sweet 10 minute theatre festival in New Zealand on in Auckland in January.

12:50 Unwearable

Expat jeweller Lisa Walker returns home as the NewDowse in Lower Hutt mounts a retrospective of her radical designs.

Brooch by Lisa Walker

Brooch by Lisa Walker. 2008. wood, plastic, silver, glue

Tom Scott & Samuel Flynn Scott 1501:00 Father and son creatives

Cartoonist/playwright/filmmaker Tom Scott and musician Samuel Flynn Scott (pictured right, checking out the re-mastered version of Abbey Road).

1:25 A Day in Pompeii

We take you back to that fateful day in Pompeii when Mt Vesuvius erupted…..and find out why this prosperous harbour city was forgotten about so quickly.

See images from the exhibition.

Pompeii

Fresco, winged female. Painted plaster. Pompeii. Source - Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei

1:50 We wish the country's oldest public art gallery a very happy 125th birthday

Beloved

2:20 Chris Bourke marks the passing during the week of record studio pioneer Eldred Stebbing

2:00 The Laugh Track

Country and western star Wilson Dixon, aka expat comedian Jesse Griffin who's currently touring the country with the Christmas Comedy Gala.

Wilson Dixon

2:30 Chapter and Verse

We explore Canterbury's landscapes and people in a new anthology of prose and poetry, Crest to Crest.

2:50 Anya Noble

15-year-old musician and inventor Anya Noble talks about her discovery about different coloured horse hair and violin bows.

3:00 The Sunday Drama

The first of a two-part BBC production of The Inheritance of Loss - adapted from Kiran Desai's Booker prize-winning novel.