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Arts on Sunday for Sunday 30 January 2011

  • Perry So

    12:30 PM.We ask why Asia continues to produce so many of the world's most highly regarded classical musicians, when we chat to the highly in demand Perry So who is currently working with the NZO. Audio

  • The Mercury is Rising

    12:50 PM.The battle to keep the Auckland's old Mercury Theatre as a theatre venue is intensifying - we talk to Richard Howard from the Mercury is Rising Campaign. Audio

  • Dan Slevin reviews summer movies

    1:06 PM.Film critic Dan Slevin's take on the summer movie highlights and lowlights. Audio

  • Hair as Art

    1:34 PM.Jennie Hasler-Jacob's 'hair art' sets her apart from the pack. She uses a range of techniques from melting and crocheting hair to create her fantastical, award winning, avant-garde designs. Sonia Yee… Read more Audio

  • TechStyle

    1:47 PM.New York fashion designer Diana Eng combines new technology and fashion to create garments that look fabulous but have a way to go until they can be mass produced. Audio

  • Dave Dobbyn in Antartica

    1:55 PM.On a visit to Scott Base, Our Changing World producer Alison Ballance found musician Dave Dobbyn who in turn found inspiration - in silence. Audio

  • Sculpture on the Gulf

    2:25 PM.Ruth Watson and Paul Radford are two of the sculptors who've created site specific work for Headland: Sculpture on the Gulf. Audio

  • Austen Deans biography writer Nathalie Brown

    2:35 PM.Nathalie Brown has written a biography of painter and prisoner of war Austen Deans. Audio

  • Greg O'Brien on the work of Graham Percy

    2:40 PM.Taranaki born Graham Percy spent much his life in Britain but now New Zealanders have the chance to experience the work of this illustrator, designer, and typographer. Audio

  • Wrestling with the Spirits

    2:53 PM.The Hastings City Art Gallery starts the year by showing the work of a group of Maori artists who're in big demand in Canada. Audio

Perry So.12:40 Hong Kong born conductor working with the NZSO, Perry So

We ask why Asia continues to produce so many of the world's most highly regarded classical musicians, when we chat to one of them, Perry So (right).

12:50 The Mercury is Rising

The battle to keep the Auckland's old Mercury Theatre as a theatre venue is intensifying - we talk to Richard Howard from the Mercury is Rising Campaign.

Dan Slevin.1:00 Film critic Dan Slevin's take on the summer movie highlights and lowlights

1:30 Jennie Hasler-Jacobs

Jennie Hasler-Jacob's 'hair art' sets her apart from the pack. She uses a range of techniques from melting and crocheting hair to create her fantastical, award winning, avant-garde designs. Sonia Yee meets up with this talented Balclutha local…

Jennie Hasler Jacobs hair art - tautaku work.

Work by Diana Eng.1:40 TechStyle

New York fashion designer Diana Eng who combines new technology and fashion to create garments that look fabulous but have a way to go til they can be mass produced.

1:50 We are in Antarctica where singer/songwriter Dave Dobbyn recently found inspiration - in silence

Richard Meros.2:00 The Laugh Track

Writer and intrepid journeyman, Richard Meros (left), whose written four books while traveling throughout Asia and the Middle East.

2:25 Sculpture on the Gulf

A chat to two Ruth Watson and Paul Radford, two of the sculptors who've created site specific work for the Headland: Sculpture on the Gulf.

SOS R Watson
SOS by Ruth Watson.

2:30 Chapter & Verse

Our featured books are about painter and war artist Austen Deans…and the life and work of expat illustrator Graham Percy enchants Greg O'Brien.

Gallery: Capturing Mountains

See work from The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy.

mountains and kiwis.

2:50 Wrestling with the Spirits

The Hastings City Art Gallery starts the year by showing the work of a group of Maori artists who're in big demand in Canada.

Te Kaieke Tohoraa.
Te Kaieke Tohoraa by Lewis Tamihana Gardiner, Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa, Whanau a Apanui, Ngāi Tahu.

3:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects

The story of things that humans have made at different points in the period from the Stone Age to the digital age. (BBC)