This Week's Bits

In the package this week: more about the Auckland Supercity; Samoa switches sides; scaled back firearms training for cops; changes to the RMA and Roger Douglas wants all student unions to change to voluntary membership.

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MP3, 13m02s, 3MB

The Weekly Round Up

This Week: David Kilgour, actors from new play Killer Joe and Ant Timpson on a potential NZ Film Month.

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Email/TXT Pearlers

The Mighty Swordsmen is a 1970 anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by Hans Stefan Santesson. It was first published in paperback by Lancer Books in December 1970, and was a follow-up to the earlier Lancer anthology The Mighty Barbarians.

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Chris Slane On The Dark Art

Cartoonist Chris Slane has been drawing cartoons in a professional context for twenty years. He started out at Auckland University's student magazine Craccum and has his political cartoons published in The Listener, Metro and other rags too numerous to mention. He's also been involved in puppet making for TV, comic books (Maui: Legends of the Outcast, Star Wars) and educational books for the Ministry of Education. Many strings to this man's bow. Here Chris talks about the art form, how cartoons come together, the ins and outs of working off shore and working with Billy T James.

On the show Chris played three tracks of his choice:
John Rowles – It Takes Two
Intensive Care Unit – Dali
Stark Effect – Craps About

Further Reading

Chris' own website is about as good as you could get if you want more information on his career and wot not.

Most of his recent cartoons for the Listener, along with work from a range of local cartoonists can be found on the New Zealand Cartoon Gallery

The website of Stark Effect, for god's sake please check out the track entitled Bunnyrabbits, Satan, Cheese and Milk.Brilliant and terrifying

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MP3, 33m00s, 7.6MB