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March 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 212: Sameena Zehra

Welcome to episode 212 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 […]
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March 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 148

Bob Dylan, Saved (1980) Way back, when I was collecting the set, I had this on CD. I didn’t play it much – but I did not hate it. I never went fully into bat for it – but couldn’t say it was the worst Bob Dylan album. Finally I’ve picked it up on vinyl […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980, Bob Dylan, Born Again, Church, God, LP, Record, Religion, Saved, Spirituality, The Bootleg Series, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 148, Trouble No More, Vinyl ·

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March 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 160 – Hadassah Grace

Welcome to episode 160 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 had a conversation this week with Hadassah […]
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March 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers & Readers: Francis Spufford & Elizabeth Knox Talk About God

Francis Spufford & Elizabeth Knox Talk About God Circa One, Circa Theatre Saturday, March 10 This Writers & Readers session featured a conversation about God between long-time correspondents Francis Spufford (UK) and Elizabeth Knox (NZ). It was, if you’ll pardon the pun, a spirited conversation. It was lively, funny and often irritating. For a start, […]
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September 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 83 – Stuart McKenzie

Welcome to episode 83 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a chat with Stuart McKenzie. He’s a writer, producer, director, actor – he’s worked extensively across theatre and film, creating plays and short films, directing the full-length feature, For Good and his most recent (shared) project […]
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April 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Johnny Cash: Forever Words – The Unknown Poems

Forever Words: The Unknown Poems Johnny Cash Blue Rider Press/Canongate Johnny Cash, famously, never threw anything away…ironic given he all but threw his career away a number of times. But the work within and around that career always stayed. He kept it all. As evidenced by the amount of “lost” recordings resurfacing…and in his after-life […]
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February 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Shawn Michaels: Wrestling For My Life

Wrestling for my Life: The Legend, the Reality, and The Faith of a WWE Superstar Shawn Michaels w/ David Thomas Zondervan Shawn Michaels’s second memoir is a wonderful study in diminishing returns – apart from the sub-title there’s little here to tell you about his “Legend” status. Instead this runs like a lazy afternoon or […]
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February 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 750

V/A, An Introduction to Gospel Song (1962) If you strip away the wars, and the Facebook arguments – even if you’re not religious at all, I find it hard to believe you could deny the power of religion as guiding force for some good in the world. I think primarily of all the amazing music […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1962, An Introduction to Gospel Song, Fisk Jubilee Singers, Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, God, Gospel, LP, Record, Religion, Roll Jordan Roll, Smithsonian, Spirituality, The Vinyl Countdown # 750, V/A, Various Artists, Vinyl ·

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September 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 76 Non-Duality – Part Two: The Dalai Lama

When he came to Wellington in 2002 to give a talk I just had to go. I’d been delving deeply into the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for a few years, reading everything I could get my hands on and practicing some of the methods and meditation techniques. It had changed my whole way of seeing the […]
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May 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 57 Non-Duality – Part One: The Dharma

When I hit my early forties I went looking for some sort of spiritual path. Partly it was about my art and partly creeping mortality you could say – I knew there was something missing from my life and so I started reading up on various religions and practices. I steered clear of the three […]
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