Sunday Afternoon

Dan Slevin talks to Ant Timpson about the history of Incredibly Strange which marks its 30th edition this year as a section of the New Zealand International Film Festival. Audio

In a world of endless spin, alternative facts, post-truth influencers and conspiracy theorists, it's getting so you don't know who to believe any more. Usually that doesn't matter much. "Don't believe… Read more Audio

What do these people have in common? Elvis Presley and Scarlett Johansson? The Bee Gees and the Proclaimers? Liberace and Kiefer Sutherland? They're all twins. Twins wrote the classic movie… Read more Audio

Dan Slevin talks to Neil Lambert from Silky Otter who have defied conventional wisdom and continued to open new cinemas despite pandemics, the boom of home streaming and an uncertain future for… Read more Audio

It's one of those cruelly ironic events - when an eagerly awaited play about our health system by one of our leading playwrights was cancelled by COVID. That was the fate of Things that matter by Gary… Read more Audio

Everybody with an interest in a career in the arts has the same question: How do I get a start? And the answer nine times out of ten is "You need a good mentor". This is the story behind dance legend… Read more Audio

Director Russell Chadwick's documentary Good Boy follows a very furry friendship and work relationship between US animal trainer Doug Seus and a 680 kilogram bear. Good Boy refers to a massive Kodiak… Read more Audio

Twenty years ago, Jenny Pattrick's historical novel The Denniston Rose became an instant classic. The story is set on the West Coast of New Zealand in the 1880s when five-year-old Rose is taken by her… Read more Audio

Simon Morris talking to a panel of visual effects veterans - Tim Capper from Cause & FX, Rhys Dippie of Fathom VFX, and former rocket scientist Lance Lones, chair of the Visual Effects Professionals… Read more Audio