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
New Zealand Film Awards
On December the 12th, the New Zealand Film Awards celebrate one of the best ever years for cinema features, documentaries, TV movies and short films - not to mention the Hobbit finale. Simon Morris talks to producer Tainui Stevens and writer/director/actor Fiona Samuel about the winners and losers in the award nominations, why they're important, and why it's been such a fantastic year on the big and small screen.
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Duration: 18'22"
13:05
At the Movies
Simon Morris looks at three minor films in a week of epic spectaculars. Jimmy's Hall is a film by Ken Loach about a battle between a community hall and the Church… The Good Lie is the rarely told story of modern-day African refugees… and Life of Crime is another attempt to get Elmore Leonard's crime-world to the big screen.
13:32
Joe Oppenheimer
Joe Oppenheimer selects what scripts will and won't be turned into BBC Films as its Commissioning Editor. He reveals what boxes Kiwis with potential ideas for him need to tick. He's been in NZ as a guest of Women in Film and Television and Script to Screen.
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Duration: 11'10"
13:46
Chevalier of the order of Arts and Letters Haydn Rawstron
New Zealander Haydn Rawstron is now a Chevalier/Knight of the order of Arts and Letters, in thanks for his many years of expertly managing opera singers who appeared in France's opera houses. The musician, manager and heritage campaigner has now established an opera festival at his home in rural Canterbury.
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Duration: 23'59"
14:05
The Laugh Track
Justin Harwood, ex-Chills musician and now writer of the web series High Road. It's got NZ on Air Funding for its second series.
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Duration: 21'05"
14:26
Majella Cullinane
Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University Majella Cullinane talks about the First World War era novel she's been working on all year, which incorporates her Irish and now New Zealand homes. Majella's also a published and award-winning poet who moved to NZ in 2008.
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Duration: 17'43"
14:26
Bruce Mason Playwriting Award winner - Ralph McCubbin-Howell
The winner of the 2014 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award, $10,000 prize, is Ralph McCubbin-Howell, one of the founders of playful Wellington theatre company Trick of the Light.
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Duration: 7'57"
14:48
The Drowned World
Curator Daniel Michael Satele wants us all to think more about water. So he's put together an exhibition of works about water and called it The Drowned World. Named for novelist JG Ballard's dystopian sixties classic, the exhibition is an online, interactive experience which will hopefully make us question our understanding of this most precious resource. Because, Daniel suspects, we might be getting it all wrong.
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Duration: 9'32"
15:04
The Drama Hour:
1. Bardfest: The Shakespeare Monologue Project
King Henry’s monologue from Act I, Scene II of Henry V. Performed by Alex Greig. Engineered by Phil Benge and produced by Francesca Emms.
2. Encore: The Story of New Zealand Theatre
A dramatised documentary produced and presented by Lynn Freeman.
Act Eleven: Thinking Outside the Square. Feminist theatre gives a fresh perspective on the life and experiences of women, past and present. The past is also explored in a series of gripping new “generational” plays. However, while plays abounded, actors were struggling to get paid a fair whack and Actors’ Equity springs into action.
Voices heard: Cathy Downes, Renee, Lisa Warrington, Stuart Hoar, Michael Hurst, Greg McGee, John McDavitt, Robert Lord, Mervyn Thompson
Engineered by Jason McClelland.
3. You Say Hawaii
Written and performed by Hinemoana Baker, Tusiata Avia and Bevin Linkhorn
A woman meets her birth mother in a café and find out the details of her parentage.
Warning: The story includes sex scenes that could cause some discomfort to some listeners.
Engineered by Richard Hulse and produced by Hone Kouka.