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Arts on Sunday for Sunday 1 May 2011

  • Choreographer Russell Kerr and set designer Raymond Boyce

    12:35 PM.Choreographer Russell Kerr and set designer Raymond Boyce, together again five decades after their first ballet collaboration, and their fourth version of Petrouchka. Audio

  • The visual arts in Christchurch

    12:50 PM.Christchurch artist Phillip Trusttum and gallery owner Jonathan Smart on how visual artists are accepting what's been lost and looking to the future, post the earthquake. Audio

  • Martin Shaw

    1:30 PM.A treat for all those Martin Shaw fans out there - whether you remember him as Doyle in The Professionals, or more recently the suave Judge John Deed or detective George Gently. He talks about his… Read more Audio

  • NZ jazz musician and photojournalist Maggie Gould

    1:45 PM.Maggie Gould gathers together 20 years of award winning portraits of the famous and talented - many of them musicians snapped in concerts around the world. Audio

  • Da Shi Jie

    2:25 PM.Found window frames, an Electric Warrior and deconstructed pavilions come together in the building of 'a Great World' when mixed media artist Kerry Ann Lee returns from a residency in Shanghai. Sonia… Read more Audio

  • The New Zealand String Quartet reviewed

    2:36 PM.The New Zealand String Quartet is back on the road - with, unusually, a guest vocalist. Margot Hannigan reviews their latest offering. Audio

  • Alice Hooten

    2:40 PM.Alice Hooten invented a word to title her first poetry collection - 'Shamfeign'. Audio

  • Faculty of Wonder - Lost and Found

    2:49 PM.Another story of resilience and determination from Christchurch - Dr Victoria Edwards and Ina Johann lost their studio, their homes were destroyed, but they've found a way to make sure their… Read more Audio

  • Dirty Dusting

    2:55 PM.Mark Houlahan reviews 'Dirty Dusting'. There's three female leads and it'll soon be at a packed venue near you. Audio

12:40 Royal New Zealand Ballet's Stravinsky Selection season

Choreographer Russell Kerr and set designer Raymond Boyce, together again five decades after their first ballet collaboration, and their fourth version of Petrouchka.

Ballet
Left:Tonia Looker in Satisfied with Great Success. Right: Medhi Angot in Petrouchka. Photos by Ross Brown.

Russell Kerr in Swan Lake rehearsal 1997.
Russell Kerr in Swan Lake rehearsal 1997.

12:50 The visual arts in Christchurch

Christchurch artist Phillip Trusttum and gallery owner Jonathan Smart on how visual artists are accepting what's been lost and looking to the future, post the earthquake.

1:00 At the Movies with Simon Morris

Simon reviews three rather different feel-good movies - Another Year from English director Mike Leigh; the remake of the eighties hit Arthur starring English comedian Russell Brand and Dame Helen Mirren; and the hit French romantic comedy, Heartbreaker.

1:30 Martin Shaw

A treat for all those Martin Shaw fans out there - whether you remember him as Doyle in The Professionals back in the late '70s-early a'80s, or more recently the suave Judge John Deed or detective George Gently. He talks about his long and diverse career, highlights and lowlights, and being treated like a rock star.

Martin Shaw in George Gently.

1:45 New Zealand jazz musician and photojournalist Maggie Gould

Maggie Gould gathers together 20 years of award winning portraits of the famous and talented - many of them musicians snapped in concerts around the world.

Work by Maggie Gould.
Maggie Gould.

carey marx2:00 The Laugh Track

English comedian and self-confessed fraud and scoundrel Carey Marx (right), who is in New Zealand for the Comedy Festival.

2:20 Da Shi Jie

Found window frames, an Electric Warrior and deconstructed pavilions come together in the building of 'a Great World' when mixed media artist Kerry Ann Lee returns from a residency in Shanghai.

Lilliput by Kerry Ann Lee
Lilliput by Kerry Ann Lee

2:25 The New Zealand String Quartet

The New Zealand String Quartet is back on the road - with, unusually, a guest vocalist. Margot Hannigan reviews their latest offering.

NZSQ.

Shamfeign by Alice Hooton.2:30 Chapter & Verse

Our featured writer is Alice Hooten, who invented a word that's the title of her first poetry collection - Shamfeign.

2:40 Faculty of Wonder - Lost and Found

Another story of resilience and determination from Christchurch - Dr Victoria Edwards and Ina Johann lost their studio, their homes were destroyed, but they've found a way to make sure their exhibition Faculty of Wonder - Lost and Found at the Auckland Festival of Photography will go on.

Edwards+Johann While I, in hugger-mugger hid.
Edwards+Johann: While I, in hugger-mugger hid.

2:55 Mark Houlahan reviews of a show called Dirty Dusting - coming to a venue near you over the next few weeks

Dirty Dusting.

3:00 A History of the World in a Hundred Objects (BBC)