Standing Room Only is literally radio with pictures... and arts, theatre, film, comedy, books, dance, entertainment and music – all the things, in other words, that make life worth living. The programme broadcasts weekly on a Sunday afternoon and is produced by Simon Morris and Lynn Freeman with Justin Gregory and Sonia Sly. In today's programme:
12:39
The No Town Project
Photographer Caroline McQuarrie shares her exhibition of photographs of abandoned West Coast townships, and accompanying embroidery to help Greymouth celebrate its 150th anniversary. No Town, to the Coast opens at the Hokikika Museum this Tuesday before heading to Reefton and Greymouth.
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Duration: 13'52"
12:47
Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery
It's taken two years to build but Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery is now open. Justin Gregory went to see the West Auckland gallery a year ago when it was just beginning to take shape and to hear about the ambitious plans director Andrew Clifford had for it. Justin met Andrew again recently to take a tour of the Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery and talk about whether those plans had become reality.
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Duration: 10'39"
13:05
At the Movies.
Simon Morris talks to Oscar-winning sound mixer Mike Hedges about the advances of sound in Lord of the Rings, District Nine, Once Were Warriors, The Orator – and of course the upcoming final film in the Hobbit trilogy – The Battle of the Five Armies.
13:34
Peter Bromhead
Cartoonist Peter Bromhead displays some of his early work which was rescued from the skip and is now safely on the walls of the Exhibition Gallery in Wellington. When Ink Was King goes back to the 1970s and 80s when Peter was starting out - now in his 80s, he's still producing daily cartoon, but he believes cartoons may soon be a thing of the past.
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Duration: 21'06"
13:47
Christian Thompson
Australian photographer and performance artist Christian Thompson on his artist's residency for the School of Art and Massey University and Wellington City Council, and why he had to leave Australia after being branded an 'angry Aboriginal artist'. He says he's more playful than angry, though some of his images pack a punch. Christian made history by becoming the first Aboriginal accepted into Oxford University and is now based in London.
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Duration: 11'27"
14:08
The Laugh Track
Natalie Medlock graduated from Toi Whakaari in 2007 and since then she's written and acted in her own plays, appeared on TV shows including Shortland Street (nurse Jill Kingsbury), The Almighty Johnsons and Auckland Daze and recently got NZ on Air funding for a web series based on a character called Yeti. She's also currently working on a screenplay for a movie Shearing the Love. At the same time she's about to return to the stage in the improvised show The Blind Date Project, which starts on 4 November at the Silo Theatre in Auckland.
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Duration: 20'14"
14:36
The Rosie Project
The Rosie Project author Graeme Simsion, on the rise of his book, why he wrote the sequel The Rosie Effect having promised himself that he wouldn't, progress on a film deal and why so many people have fallen in love with his unlikely hero, Don Tillman.
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Duration: 12'13"
14:45
Centrepoint reflections
Alison Quigan, the former Artistic Director of Palmerston North's Centrepoint Theatre reflects on the theatre's 40th, which has been marked with the launch of a book about its history written by Peter Hawes: The History According to Peter Hawes.
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Duration: 11'32"
14:49
Vintage radio with pictures
Rock and roll is dominating the summer, with the likes of the Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, Ed Sherran, Rod Stewart and Billy Idol coming to visit in the next six months. With that in mind Irene Gardner has chosen some vintage Radio with Pictures interviews recently added to NZ On Screen.
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Duration: 8'38"
15:05
The Drama Hour.
Think of a Garden - Part 2 by John Kneubuhl
The second episode of a two-part drama adapted for radio. Think Of A Garden explores the political turmoil in Western Samoa in the 1920s. A sorry chapter in New Zealand’s history as a colonial power, that many would rather forget.
Cast: Nathaniel Lees, Whetu Fala, Sam Pio Mesina, K.C.Kelly, Desmond Kelly and Martin Amosa. With Michael Wilson, Oscar Kightley, Elma Ma’ua and Moera Tuilaepa
Music for this production was specially arranged and conducted by Damien Ekenasio. Professor Alfred Hunkin assisted with translations. Produced by Steve Danby and engineered by Phil Benge