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Upbeat for Wednesday 30 November 2016

  • Previous Episode: Tuesday, 29 November 2016
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  • Drawing on success

    arts
    Leanne Pooley

    1:40 PM.Only one woman is a contender for this year’s Best Animated Feature Academy Award, and that woman is New Zealand director Leanne Pooley. Her animated documentary 25 April is about the WWI Gallipoli… Read more Audio

  • The next stage for female Maori playwright

    te ao Maori arts
    Playwright Maraea Rakuraku

    1:20 PM.Award winning female Maori playwright Maraea Rakuraku’s play Tan-Knee was one of three selected as part of Auckland Theatre Company’s development programme Next Stage Festival. The broadcaster, poet… Read more Audio

  • What the heck?!

    music
    Oscar Laven

    1:00 PM.Wellington based multi-instrumentalist Oscar Laven will be traveling to Saturn, Uranus and Neptune with Orchestra Wellington for their performance of Holst’s The Planets. He’ll be playing planetary… Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Tuesday, 29 November 2016
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 1 December 2016
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