16 Nov 2025

From Nude Tuesday to Educators: Jackie Van Beek

From Culture 101, 12:15 pm on 16 November 2025

Our guest for Fast Favourites has been a familiar face on our TV screens since appearing in Shortland Street back in the nineties. She has created, starred in and directed some of our funniest series and films from The Breaker Upperers,

Nude Tuesday and What We Do in the Shadows, to Funny Girls and Wellington Paranormal.

She is back for season 4 of the improvised comedy series Educators on TVNZ in which she plays as school counsellor Robyn Duffy.

Writer, director, actor Jackie van Beek joins us on Culture 101 to share some her cultural favourites.