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October 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 188: Simon Leary
Welcome to episode 188 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 […]Archive
August 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Ray Henwood
Ray Henwood has died. One of Circa Theatre’s stalwarts, one of Wellington’s acting legends. I met Ray Henwood only once. But it was huge for me. By then I’d grown up seeing him as part of the cast of Gliding On and he was there in several TV shows and movies. I’d seen him in […]Archive
July 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 175: Sophie Hambleton
Welcome to episode 175 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. Many of you will know Sophie Hambleton from her role […]Archive
April 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 164 – Heather O’Carroll
Welcome to episode 164 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. This was recorded just last week. We rushed […]Archive
December 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Parker Posey: You’re On An Airplane
You’re On An Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir Parker Posey Blue Rider Press In the 1990s Parker Posey started appearing in movies; quirky films, funny films. She was savage or sexy or cheeky or some combination of those things – she was weird and wonderful, a little odd and a lot of wonderful. She was a […]Archive
November 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 142 – Bronwyn Turei
Welcome to episode 142 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – 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 to access each new episode; or via Anchor/FMyou can get the […]Archive
July 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 123 – Ali Harper
Welcome to episode 123 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Ali Harper is someone I met for the first time earlier this year. I told her I wanted to podcast her – because I knew her work. I had heard some of her albums, seen her on the TV […]Archive
July 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Grace Jones – Bloodlight and Bami: DVD
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Director: Sophie Fiennes Umbrella Entertainment As with her recent/ish memoir (a mostly great read) here Grace Jones is self-mythologising. And rightly. Wisely. More than fair enough. She’s singular – her impact felt across fashion and music and (to a lesser degree) both the big and small screen. She’s a visual […]Archive
June 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 118 – Chris Tse
Welcome to episode 118 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a conversation with Chris Tse. He’s a Wellington poet. He’s done some acting and music-making too but it’s for his books How To Be Dead In A Year of Snakes and the very recently released He’s So […]Archive
May 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 116 – Mark Cubey
Welcome to episode 116 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one’s a conversation I had with Mark Cubey. His most recent job was managing Writers & Readers as part of the NZ Festival. Before that, for more than a decade, he was the producer of Saturday Mornings on […]Archive
April 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman