I just got in from a blustery journey to Radio New Zealand to appear on (what we used to call) the Concert Programme to talk about this year’s Film Festival. Concert FM has an excellent daily magazine show called Upbeat, hosted by Eva Radich, and I suspect this is the first time that Merle Haggard […]
I’m filling for Graeme Tuckett on Nine to Noon for the next few weeks. This morning Lynn Freeman and I discussed Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Despicable Me (and 3D generally) plus Tom Reilly’s Gordonia. That was a lot to squeeze in to just over 10 minutes so it got a little breathless. Listen here or […]
Not by me. Christ, I’m too busy with being on holiday and preparing for my forthcoming return to the Wellington stage to think about summing up a decade in cinema (particularly as I wasn’t watching much film for the first half of it). Luckily, Ant Timpson has done the work for me. Check out his […]
It’s October which means that the best radio programme in the world my favourite radio programme is back — Start the Week with Andrew Marr. The walk to work is made that much more intellectual when STW is on the iPod. This week there was a lovely moment when Peter Maxwell-Davies (Master of the Queen’s […]