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August 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 225: Ben Brown

Welcome to episode 225 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library.

Here’s a conversation I had recently with Ben Brown. He’s a writer and performance-poet based in Lyttelton. And I reckon he should be NZ’s Poet Laureate. This was my first time meeting Ben but I love his work. I don’t know when I first started reading his work but I love his poetry, he’s also written a gripping memoir, stories for children in both the School Journal and in book-form as standalones and there’s plays, film scripts and more memoir either in the pile to be completed or out in the world already. Read More »

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August 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 224: Rachel McAlpine

Welcome to episode 224 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library.

This week I had a conversation with the writer Rachel McAlpine. Read More »

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July 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 223: Lance Philip

Welcome to episode 223 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library.

This week’s episode is my conversation with Lance Philip. He’s a drummer, percussionist and educator – he’s dedicated his life to playing drums and for the last quarter-century he’s been a teacher, first at Polytech/Massey and now Victoria University. He’s also played everything from musical theatre and orchestra work to being in the live band on TV for Dancing With The Stars and working with small combos and larger ensembles as part of tribute acts, backing international visitors, playing jazz and almost everything else. Read More »

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July 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 222: Wayne Kramer (MC5)

Welcome to episode 222 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library.

This episode is likely the shortest episode of the podcast ever, certainly to date. It is a brief phone conversation with MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer. Read More »

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July 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 221: Dryw McArthur

Welcome to episode 221 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library.

This episode is my conversation with Dryw McArthur. Read More »

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July 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 220: Ruby Solly

Welcome to episode 220 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library.

This episode is my conversation with Ruby Solly.
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July 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 219: Colin Morris

Welcome to episode 219 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library.

This episode is my conversation with Colin Morris. Read More »

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June 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 218: Paul McLaney on the return of Gramsci

Welcome to episode 218 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.

Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library.

I first spoke with Paul McLaney for this podcast back in 2017 – in fact the conversation was recorded in 2015 but I lost the file for a time and couldn’t improve the audio near the end of it when it was recovered. But it was a worthy conversation and you can still hear it by clicking here. It certainly will give you background on Paul if you’re about to listen to this chat without knowing anything about him or his work. Read More »

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June 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 217: Freya Daly Sadgrove

Welcome to episode 217 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys .

Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library.

This is the first brand new conversation of the post-Lockdown world. And it was to be the last one before we went into lockdown. Which is to say that poet and theatre maker Freya Daly Sadgrove was due to turn up at my house and have a chat about her brand new book Head Girl and many other things the day of, or the very day before the country went into lockdown. Read More »

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June 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 216: David Cormack

Welcome to episode 216 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys .

Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library.

Here is the final conversation I recorded ahead of the Covid Lockdown. This is me chatting with David Cormack – a PR/Comms guy who you might know from his appearances on TV (The Nation) and radio (RNZ’s The Panel) and from a regular column in the NZ Herald – which was still going at the time of this conversation but is another casualty of changes to journalism under Coronavirus. Read More »

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June 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 215: Karen O’Leary

Welcome to episode 215 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys .

Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library.

This week’s episode was recorded over two months ago – back when we hadn’t had a lockdown and the talk of the pandemic was just really getting going; so much so that we even make a thin joke or two about that in this chat – and about “social distancing” (a new term then, now something you hear often and many times every day). Read More »

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May 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 214: Nick Lowe

Welcome to episode 214 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T  and Yeastie Boys .

Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library.

This is the first episode of the podcast since the lockdown – the first in about 9 weeks; the longest time off in the life of Sweetman Podcast. Read More »

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