Weird Culture - Weird Custom (1986) was, as far as I know, the first record release co-ordinated by the entire New Zealand student radio network. There were twelve tracks on…
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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.…
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The first of my vinyl memories posts caused a tiny flurry of excitement so I thought I'd make it a weekly affair - as I go through the collection deciding…
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I've been carting around boxes of vinyl records from flat to flat and house to house since I was a kid. Lots of my records were bought from the plentiful…
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Lynn Freeman's Arts on Sunday show returned from the Summer break yesterday but film correspondent Simon Morris was given an extra week off (something to with Matinée Idle I suspect).…
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Yesterday morning I was lucky enough to be invited to Radio New Zealand once again, this time to review the new John le Carré novel, Our Kind of Traitor. It's…
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