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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, […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
May 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman