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September 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 230: Anna Dean

Welcome to episode 230 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 […]
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August 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 227: Charlotte Graham-McLay

Welcome to episode 227 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Apple, Broadcaster, Charlotte Graham, Charlotte Graham-McLay, Chat, Creative Writing, Dancer, Discussion, Interview, Interviewer, Journalism, Journalist, MEDIA, Memoir, New York Times, Off The Tracks, Online, Podcast, Presenter, Print, Radio, RNZ, Simon Sweetman, Social Media, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 227, Sweetman Podcast # 227: Charlotte Graham-McLay, Sweetman Podcast: Charlotte Graham-McLay, T Leaf T, Talk, The Guardian, The Spinoff, TV, Write, Writer, Writing, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 213: Mike White

Welcome to episode 213 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Apple, Author, Ben and Olivia, Ben Smart, Chat, Conversation, Dogs, ep.213, Feature, Greg King, How To Walk A Dog, Interview, iTunes, Journalism, Journalist, Longform, Mark Lundy, Marlborough Express, Mike White, N&S, North & South, Olivia Hope, Podcasst, Podcast, Podcasts, Reporter, Reporting, Scott Guy, Simon Sweetman, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 213: Mike White, The Murder of Scott Guy, Wellington, Who Killed Scott Guy?, Writer, Writing, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 196: Victor Rodger

Welcome to episode 196 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 […]
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November 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 195: Linda Burgess

Welcome to episode 195 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 […]
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November 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 193: Sean Plunket

Welcome to episode 193 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 […]
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September 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Ratso: Stubborn Heart

Ratso Stubborn Heart Lucky Number Records He’s about to turn 70 and “Ratso” has just released his debut album. Maybe you know him by his given name, Larry Sloman. He wrote about Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue and is widely published as a journalist and author, including co-writing two best-selling memoirs by Howard Stern, as well […]
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September 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 185: Paula Penfold

Welcome to episode 185 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 […]
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March 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 161 – Graham Reid

Welcome to episode 161 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. Here’s a conversation I recorded back at […]
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February 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 157 – David Cohen

Welcome to episode 157 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. Here I not only had a chat with Wellington-based, internationally-published […]
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October 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 137 – Mary McCallum

Welcome to episode 137 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. I had a chat with Mary McCallum. She’s just published her first book of poems, the excellent XYZ of Happiness. But Mary was playing the long-game, she’s a known, established poet – having studied under Bill Manhire when his […]
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February 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Teju Cole: Blind Spot

Blind Spot Teju Cole Random House Award-winning novelist, essayist and journalist Teju Cole here provides an innovative, masterful meditation on the way we see things; the relationship/s between words and images. Blind Spot is all at once a set of micro-essays, a photography book, a travel diary and yet it transcends all – stands on […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Blind Spot, Book, Book Review, Essay, Journalism, Journalist, Novelist, Open City, Photography, photos, Random House, Teju Cole, Teju Cole: Blind Spot, Travel, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·
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