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Arts on Sunday for Sunday 7 December 2008

  • Peter Lange

    12:40 PM.On display at the Waikato Museum is Peter Lange's caravan - made from Huntly brick. Audio

  • The future of book editing

    12:48 PM.Invisible, hard working and crucial to the success of a writer. What is the state of the NZ editing industry. Audio

  • Visual Arts - the year in review

    1:30 PM.Mark Amery, Elizabeth O'Connor and Andrew Clifford discuss with Lynn Freeman the state of the visual arts in 2008. Audio

  • New Zealand Landscapes

    1:50 PM.Rhian and Grant Sheehan talk about their collaboration - a book of landscapes you can read - to music. Audio

  • Terry Stringer

    2:25 PM.A new documentary by Bruce Morrison looks at the intricate process Terry Stringer takes in sculpting large scale works. Audio

  • Sonja Yelich - Get Some

    2:32 PM.This new collection of poems imagines an unfliching portrait of a young mans tour of duty in Iraq. Audio

  • Stephanie Johnson - Swimmers Rope

    2:40 PM.Stephanie discusses her new novel - a tale of a man who spends a lifetime covering up his true self. Audio

  • Christopher Johnstone

    2:50 PM.The Painted Garden in New Zealand Art looks at almost 200 years of artworks featuiring gardens. Audio

  • The Reindeer Monologues

    3:05 PM.Penny Ashton reviews The Reindeer Monologues which is playing at Auckland's Basement Theatre. Audio

Array12:40 A Brick Caravan

A pioneer in the New Zealand ceramics, brick artist Peter Lange (right) talks about his latest hefty creation.

12:50 Landscapes to Music

Father and son photographer and musician, Grant and Rhian Sheehan, talk about their book about New Zealand landscapes which you can read to music.

Grant and Rhian Sheehan.

1:00 At the Movies with Simon Morris

A look at the latest James Bond movie - Quantum of Solace. And, by contrast, two little independent movies - from Sweden the drama Suddenly, and from America, the high school documentary American Teen.

1:30 Visual Arts

An assessment of the year in visual arts with Andrew Clifford (below left) in Auckland, Elizabeth O'Connor (below middle) in Christchurch and Mark Amery (below right) in Wellington.

Andrew Clifford, Elizabeth O’Connor and Mark Amery.

1:50 The Painted Garden

Mickey DeeChristopher Johnstone walks us through the history of the New Zealand Garden as portrayed in art over the past 180 or so years.

2:00 The Laugh Track

Visiting Australian comedian Mickey Dee (right) fills us in on the best of his comedic compatriots

2:20 Sculpture Documentary

Sculptor Terry Stringer (below right) let filmmaker Bruce Morrison (below left) behind the scenes of his studio for a rare glimpse of Terry's practice. The doco shows on Artsville on Sunday 14 December on TV One.

Terry Stringer and Bruce Morrison

2:30 Writer's Block

Sonja Yelich imagines life as a teenage American marine in Iraq in her new poetry collection Get Some, while Stephanie Johnson reveals an old man's terrible secret in her new novel, Swimmers' Rope.

Sonja Yelich and Stephanie Johnson.

2:50 Publishing

Lucy Orbell considers the state of editing in the New Zealand publishing industry.

3:00 Theatre Review

Penny Ashton reviews The Reindeer Monologues at Auckland's Basement theatre.

The cast.

3:07pm Radio Drama: Madness You Can Trust by Brian Sergent

A survival story based on the writer's own experience of time spent in a 'psych' ward. By turns funny and heart wrenching it is ultimately a tale about the victory of the human spirit over adversity.