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We're all about mapping songs this Sunday 12-4pm - songs that take us from place to another and beyond because - first up on the show - you're invited to be part of mapping New Zealand's landmarks in a whole new way - if you come across a mention of a place, a geological feature or a building in a book you're reading, you can add it to the Great Map of New Zealand stories on our webpage.
Then screen producer now also writer and director Ainsley Gardiner on winning an international Sundance Institute fellowship and after the one o'clock news, Dan Slevin's still minding At the Movies for Simon Morris. At 25 to two, the directors of two small and proudly independent music festivals on what it takes to survive in a fiercely competitive field, then a new opera the brings together Samoa's mythological and post missionary past with director Anapela Polataivao.
Our Laugh Track guest is comedian Josiah Day (pictured) who took out the Best Newcomer title for 2018 - boredom he says is the secret to his success. At 25 past two - the country's newest early music ensemble, the Night Watch, ahead of its first outing, then we're back to the issue of trying to find ways to encourage more men to read books - meet two guys who head men's reading groups around the country. Ending that hour Stephanie Post of the Auckland Art Fair introduces us to artnow.co.nz which, amongst the varied New Zealand arts sites, looks to be a one stop shop for listing quality contemporary art exhiitions
In the Drama at 3 - the second and concluding part of Weed by Anthony McCarten and finally wonderfully versatile and affordable Papier Mache, essentially paper and glue which is easy to mould and paint, is the material of choice for Indian sculptor and artist, Bharati Pitre.
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