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August 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 131 – Emily Writes (About Her Life!)
Welcome to episode 131 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. And it’s welcome back to the podcast the first third-time guest, Emily Writes. She was first on in the very early days of the pod, back at episode # 14. And her first repeat-turn was for episode # 52, […]Archive
August 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
DVD Review: Sarah & Duck (Lots of Shallots and other stories) – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)
Sarah & Duck Lots of Shallots BBC Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6) Oscar here again. I’m reviewing Sarah & Duck instead of Coco – I will review Coco, and Jumanji and then Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 but first up I want to talk about Sarah & Duck. Scarf Lady is funny I mean Scarf Lady is the […]Archive
July 24, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Book Preview: Is It Bedtime Yet? – by Emily Writes and Friends
Arriving later this week Is It Bedtime Yet? is the brand new book by Emily Writes. She of Rants In The Dark. This time however Emily has some friends along. I’m even one of them! Is It Bedtime Yet’s subtitle is Parenting…the hilarious, the hair-raising, the heart-breaking – it’s a collection of stories, taken in […]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
November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Peter Pan – The Pantomime: Theatre
Peter Pan – The Pantomime Direction: Susan Wilson (written by Pinky Agnew & Lorae Parry) Circa Theatre; Circa One (Nov 18 – Dec 23/Jan 2-13) The Circa Theatre end of year panto has been a mainstay across the last year – however last year’s romp through Jack And The Beanstalk felt phoned in, stale. The […]Archive
November 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 88 – Anika Moa
Welcome to episode 88 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This is a conversation with Anika Moa. She need no introduction – but perhaps a warning: this does contain more ‘C’-words than any other podcast I’ve done. Anika burps, she cackles, she abuses me, mocks me – but within […]Archive
September 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Film Review: Captain Underpants, The First Epic Movie– Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 5)
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Director: David Soren DreamWorks Animation Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 5) Captain Underpants had good songs in it and he got splashed with water and there was a telephone going ‘ring-ring-ring-ring/hello/I am Captain Underpants/what is going on/tra-la-la/tra-tra-tra-tra-la-la/why am I soaking wet’. There was whoopie cushions in it. And Mr Krupp, the mean […]Archive
August 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Not Just Greasy Kids Stuff*: Music For Kids That Adults Dig – and Adult Music That’s Suitable For Children
I have a son. His name is Oscar. He is awesome. I might be (slightly) biased there – but his smiles can make a Gin Wigmore album seem okay. Actually, his mother is quite sure that he likes Gin Wigmore. One of Oscar’s early skills was that he could – silently – back up an […]Archive
August 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
DVD Review: SING – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 5)
SING Director: Garth Jennings Illumination Entertainment Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 5) The title of the movie is called SING – Miss Crawley has a big eye that can fall off. It bumps on the zero two times on the computer and she meant to type in ‘$1000’ but it came to be $100,000.Archive
July 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #205 – Roald Dahl’s Dirty Beasts & Other Stories, Wellington, 2015
It’s always been fun taking Oscar to shows – well, in theory…now of course he writes his own reviews – but a couple of years ago he wasn’t quite ready, but still keen, in theory… I wrote a few words about this show – because it didn’t quite work, but best intentions…. Was thinking, just […]Archive
July 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman