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This Week's Bits
This week's TWB includes: NZ's FTA with Malaysia; Wayne Mapp strengthens his resolve on Afgahistan; Colin Craig and his "democracy" march in Auckland and the Greens on a new law expanding the powers of Police.
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MP3, 11m57s, 2.7MB
The Weekly Round Up
NZ artist Dick Frizzell, Australian film director Sarah Watt about her film My Year With Out Sex and Golden Horse Kirsten Morell.
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MP3, 10m28s, 2.4MB
Greg Rucka
Crime novelist and comic book writer Greg Rucka hails from Portland, Oregon. He's a prolific writer, working in novels, comic books and video games. His work deals in the gritty side of urban crime and, in the case of Queen and Country (published by Oni Press), the inner workings and political cogs driving a British spy agency. That series focuses on agent Tara Chase who is a physiologically battered field operative for the SIS traversing the world of international espionage. It's James Bond with realism and emotional honesty.
In this interview Greg talks about how he writes and why he writes. He talks about Queen and Country and how that's given him a deeper understanding of world affairs and how political brinkmanship plays a part on the international stage.
Further reading
Greg's website
A rundown of Greg's infamous creation Atticus Kodiak and novels he appears in.
Oni Press' Queen and Country page.
The New York Times page on Iran, tracking the latest developments.
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MP3, 25m59s, 5.9MB
Jonathan King
The son of the late Michael King has followed his own path, becoming in the past few years a successful film director. The one time graphic designer, commercial and music video director directed his first film Black Sheep in 2006. He's now brought to the big screen an adaptation of the classic Maurice Gee story Under The Mountain. It opens on December 10.
He's a pragmatic artist, he shoots movies because he wants to, but also realises the realities of the market and tends to navigate the troubled waters well. He also tries of being described as the "next Pe