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A love struck Romeo sang the streets a serenade, this Sunday on Standing Room Only...
This week on Standing Room Only (12.30pm to 4pm RNZ National) on the first day of Summer 1 December it's 'just like Romeo and Juliet' - songs about the world's most famous lovers all afternoon herald our Laugh Track guest actor Stephen Lovatt.
But we're also lovers of art, so Lynn speaks to artist Ruth Buchanan who has put the largest selections of the Govett Brewster Gallery's art collection on display in fresh new ways, catches up with Ella Sutherland about an exciting project in Berlin, speaks to Gregory O'Brien about the work of the late painter Melvin Day, and Warren Feeney about the 20-year history of Christchurch public art programme Scape.
Our first hour is choral: Dr Morag Atchison is a leading soprano who teaches voice in the University of Auckland School of Music, and Olivia Webb is an artist who has worked with five migrant families from Kiribati, Zambia, Samoa, the Philippines and the Netherlands to write and perform deeply personal anthems for an art installation. On At the Movies Dan Slevin reviews the 25th feature film by Martin Scorsese, The Irishman, a comic horror film about a game of Hide & Seek gone wrong, Ready or Not, and the story of the Cornish folk group, Fisherman’s Friends. Our writer this week is Andi C Buchanan with their novella From a Shadow Grave, imagining three very different ways that Phyllis Symons might have died. In 1931 Phylis's body was found buried in the construction site of Wellington's Mount Victoria Tunnel.
