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Arts on Sunday for Sunday 18 July 2010

  • Gordon Crook

    12:40 PM.Gordon Crook has put his hand to many different media over his lifetime- from drawing, collage and photography to painting and tapestry. His life story is told in a documantary directed by Clare… Read more Audio

  • Doreen Blumhardt

    12:50 PM.Hundreds of ceramics made by the late Dame Doreen Blumhardt are about to go under the hammer. It has been called the largest applied arts auction in New Zealand and the proceeds are to go to the… Read more Audio

  • Imelda Staunton

    1:35 PM.Acclaimed British actress Imelda Staunton talks about her career. Audio

  • Warren Feeney

    1:45 PM.The retiring director of Christchurch's Centre of Contemporary Art (COCA)talks about his 11 years at the helm. Audio

  • Review - Perfumed Garden

    1:55 PM.Fiona Clapham reviews the new play by Dean Parker, The Perfumed Garden, which is set in the heart of Afghanistan. Audio

  • TAPAC

    2:30 PM.Lucy Orbell goes behind the scenes at The Auckland Performing Arts Centre. Audio

  • Kevin Ireland

    3:40 PM.Veteran writer Kevin Ireland on his new novel Daisy Chains, a biting satire about the recession and those who feed off the misfortunes of others. Audio

  • Craig Cliff

    3:48 PM.A Man Melting is the debut collection of short stories published by Wellington author Craig Cliff. Audio

  • Media Provera

    3:55 PM.What happens when 'New Media' becomes old technology? Sally Anne McIntyre, Kim Pieters, and Nigel Bunn speak about the new show on at the Blue Oyster Gallery in Dunedin. Audio

12:40 Gordon Crook

We chat to artist Gordon Crook on the eve of the premiere of a documentary about his long and multi-dimensional art practice, and to the director Clare O'Leary.

Gordon Crook

12:50 Ceramics

We drop in to one of the biggest ceramics auctions in New Zealand's history as Dame Doreen Blumhardt's personal collection goes under the hammer.

1:00 At the Movies with Simon Morris

Simon talks to Christian McKay, the star of Me and Orson Welles, about how Welles managed to juggle his various jobs.

1:30 Imelda Staunton

In demand stage and screen actress Imelda Staunton, star of the film Vera Drake and more recently in the period Cranford TV series, on refusing to be typecast and why she turned down a role in Desperate Housewives.
Below: The cast of Return to Cranford

Cast of Return to Cranford

1:45 Warren Feeney

The departing director of Christchurch's COCA, Warren Feeney, says the contemporary art gallery has an embarrassment of riches to choose from when it comes to working with up and coming artists.

1:55 Theatre Review: The Perfumed Garden

Hinemoana BakerFiona Clapham reviews this New Zealand play set in Afghanistan

2:00 The Laugh Track: Hinemoana Baker

Hinemoana is a singer, songwriter and poet.
Pictured right is Hinemoana Baker and the cover of her book.

2:25 TAPAC

Lucy Orbell takes us for a tour of one of the busiest art spaces in Auckland.

Tapac

2:30 Chapter and Verse

Our featured writers today are newcomer short story writer Craig Cliff who's just published The Melting Man, and veteran writer Kevin Ireland who, in his latest novel, Daisy Chains, vents his spleen about the media, banks, capitalism and greed

Chapter and Verse

2:50 Media Provera

A Dunedin exhibition puts the 'new' back into the old term, New Media.

Media Povera

3:00 Radio Drama: Watermark

The next in the Worldplay series, Watermark chronicles the physical, psychological and financial devastation of a flood in the Australian Northern Territory town of Katherine.