Standing Room Only for Sunday 23 October 2022

12:15  'Precariat Whānau' - Adrian Jackson

A new Health Research funded project researching their experiences is working with renowned Theatre Director Adrian Jackson MBE, who for 30 years ran a company called Cardboard Citizens to create theatre with and for people experiencing homelessness.

Lynn Freeman speaks with Adrian about 'Precariat Whānau' is a term encompassing families and individuals who live in barely adequate insecure housing or are homeless and his work with Auckland City Mission.

12:35  Melding Klezmer with classical - composer Ross Harris

Composer Ross Harris has been working on a special commission for the Kāpiti Concert Orchestra that brings together his many musical skills.

Harris who has written operas, symphonies, chamber music and is an accordionist with Klezmer band The Kugels, is  arranging some of his original Klezmer compositions into a Suite for Orchestra and Mezzo Soprano.

12:45 Hitchcock's North by Northwest takes to the stage

Adapting a classic and much loved film for the stage is wildly ambitious anyway - especially one of the most cinematic thrillers of all time from suspense king Alfred Hitchcock.

How will Auckland Theatre Company's latest production, North by Northwest duplicate a chase across four presidents' heads on Mount Rushmore, an assassination at the United Nations,  and crop duster in pursuit of Cary Grant?

Director Simon Philips explains what theatre can do with a screenplay that film cannot.

1:10 At The Movies

This week, Simon Morris casts his discerning eye over two streaming movies - Netflix's Luckiest Girl Alive, and Amazon Prime's The Three Five Five.

1:33 From documentary to drama: Keelan Walker

Director Keelan Walker on his new short film Bringing Mere Home, the Māori filmmaker talks about his shift from documentaries and into drama.

1:50 Mosaic Art

Mosaic artworks are fashioned out of small pieces of materials - stone, glass, shell and ceramics are among the most popular, but that's far from an exclusive list currently on display at the biennial New Zealand Mosaic Art Exhibition in Whanganui.

Contributing artists Achilles Botes and chair of New Zealand Mosaic Art Pat George discuss the intricacies of the art form.

2:06 The Laugh Track - Miss Leading

This week's guest is Miss Leading (AKA Nadia Freeman), fresh back from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where she's opened her show Another Universe to rave reviews and full houses.   She stopped by the Laugh Track before hitting the road for a tour around Aotearoa.

Miss Leading's picks include Kevin Bridges, Eddie Izzard, Michelle Wolf and Sindhu Vee.

2:25 Aotearoa's best Sci- Fi and Fantasy with Emily Brill-Holland

The fourth volume of Year's Best Aotearoa NZ Science Fiction & Fantasy anthology has just been published.

Guest Editor Emily Brill-Holland thinks its a bumper crop with 14 stories by 12 authors, including Wellingtonian Mel Harding-Shaw who specialises in speculative fiction. Both of them speak with Lynn Freeman.

2:40 Stephen Johnson's Peace Stick

Peace Stick is a novel that started with a chat to a former East German schoolgirl about life behind the Iron Curtain during the Cuban Missile Crisis 60 years ago

Author Stephen Johnson shares how he found the protagonist of his self-published work.

Mexican-born poet Rogelio Guedea  has been instrumental in making New Zealand poetry accessible to Hispanic audiences internationally.

He's translated the work of more than 60 Kiwi poets into Spanish and shared them in books and online.

Rogelio's deeply personal new poetry collection about his 28 year marriage sees the favour returned.  Lynn Freeman speaks asks him about having his verse translated into English.

3:06 Drama at 3 - Vincent O'Sullivan's Behold the Summer Grass

This afternoon we're recalling that incident with Part One of Vincent O'Sullivan's radio drama Behold the Summer Grass. Based on an 80 year old military investigation where a number of Japanese Prisoners of War were shot at a POW camp near Featherston in Wairarapa.

 

 

Music played in this show

12-1pm

Intro music - Johnny Horton - North to Alaska

Roseanne Cash - Girl from the North Country

Fatboy Slim - North West Three

1-2pm

Elton John - The North

Graeme Connors - A Little Further North

Beautiful South - The Sound of North America

2-3pm

The Beatles - Only a Northern Song

Shawn Mullins - North on 95

3-4pm

Missy Higgins - Going North

The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town