Fiona Samuel

Dorothy goes to the BetterSelf Program to try and sort herself out. She contacts her brother Michael. Daniel comes over to her house while her husband Andrew is out. Dorothy meets Rena from the… Audio

Dorothy, overweight and agoraphobic, invites a young mechanic, Sam, into her house. He walks with her to pick up the children from school. She's invited to a school reunion and Daniel is there. They… Audio

Dorothy and Andrew get the news that Eve is seriously injured in hospital. The parents fly from the U.S. with Ruth and they all keep vigil. Dot realises that Eve had an affair with Daniel. Eve returns… Audio

Dorothy and Andrew go on holiday with thier children - Grace and new baby Amy. Evelyn and her husband Nathan join them with their daughter Lou. Dot saves Grace from drowning in the pool. Evelyn is… Audio

Evelyn and Daniel are working in a ski resort in Canada. She's upset when Daniel is late back from a lesson with the 13 year old son of the family she's looking after. Daniel takes off. Back in New… Audio

Dorothy is having a baby with Andrew and they get engaged. She tells Eve who wants to go to the scan,and meets with Daniel who asks why she got together with Andrew. Andrew's family and all the… Audio

Evelyn, the oldest of the Forrest girls, goes to visit her father who is living in a house in the country. It's very cold and Frank isn't in great shape. Eve is envious of Dorothy and her life which… Audio

Two debt collectors come to the Forrests house and Dorothy, now a student at training college, has to deal with them. Among the debts she discovers lots of unpaid driving fines for when she and Daniel… Audio

Seven-year-old Dorothy Forrest moves with her family - American father Frank, mother Lee and older siblings Michael and Evelyn - from New York City to Westmere, Auckland. Michael's new friend Daniel… Audio

Film director Fiona Samuel, performance artist Shigeyuki Kihara and singer-songwriter Ruia Aperahama discuss their very different approaches to creating art with Paul Bushnell. Music critic Nick… Audio

A very fine writer of New Zealand television drama - her skills are very much in demand as the networks scramble to get more local content on. It seems that New Zealanders actually like seeing… Audio

Fiona's the writer of a new TV series, Bliss, which looks at the life of short story writer Katherine Mansfield from her latter teenage years, it premiers tonight. Audio

Writer and director of 'Piece of My Heart' - a TV drama about what happened to unwed mothers in the 1960's in New Zealand. Audio