TV & Radio Saturday October 15

Camilla Andersen loves all the women of the world, and it's semi-final one. You know what we're talking about.

TV

It's a Woman's World

It’s a Woman’s World (Travel Channel, Sky 076, 8.30pm). New Zealander Camilla Andersen could be in our Flying the Flag series – except the flags would be scattered far and wide all around the globe. She was half of the duo who made the terrific low-budget series Julian & Camilla’s World Odyssey, she went around the Pacific in The Blue Continent, and her latest series is It’s a Woman’s World, where she travels to South Africa, the Philippines, Turkey and Jamaica. The four-part series in which she meets women around the world seems to involve a lot of dancing, including ballet dancing in Manila, belly dancing in Turkey, and bump-and-grind and “electric slide” (nope, don’t know either) in Jamaica. Other highlights include meeting Yvonne Chaka Chaka, the Princess of Africa, in Johannesburg; doing a modelling shoot; tenpin bowling; and visiting Sly and Robbie in their studio.

Rugby (Maori 8.00pm; TV1, 8.30pm; TV3, 8.30pm; Sky Sport 1, Sky 020, 8.45pm). Semi-final weekend in the Rugby World Cup, and four channels have the games live, so pick your poison. Today is semi-final one between Wales and France; tomorrow it happens all over again for semi-final two, in which the All Blacks face the Australians. Oh god. All games from here on in are at Eden Park, including Friday’s bronze medal game before the big final on October 23.

FILM

Sabrina Goes to Rome (Four, 6.30pm). And we’d be quite happy for her to stay there. (1998) 5 – Diana Balham

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (TV2, 7.30pm). The first of many sequels, bits of trilogies, quadrologies and films they just couldn’t let go of this week. No 2 in this series: Jack Sparrow and the gang step up the body count and those crazy pirate shenanigans. So hammy they could slice it up and serve it on French bread. Johnny Depp is ably assisted by Bill Nighy – having the most fun in his life – as weird octopus guy Davy Jones, and Tom Hollander is the short, mean Lord Cutler Beckett once again. The film is banned in China, apparently, where they were highly offended by the constant references to -cannibalism. (2006) 6 – Diana Balham

Lethal Weapon 3 (TV2, 10.30pm). In which Riggs and Murtaugh join forces with a sexy policewoman (Rene Russo) to expose a bent cop “and his huge arms racket”, as the publicity has it. Things go awry when the cop can’t find enough huge people with no arms. Or something like that. Hurtles towards the sequels graveyard at top speed, with one good car chase being pretty much its only saving grace. (1993) 5 – Diana Balham

Diamonds Are Forever (TV1, 11.15pm). The Goldfinger team from 1964 was brought back for Diamonds – director Guy Hamilton and cinemato­grapher Ted Moore – and Sean Connery was offered so much money to do one more movie after the George Lazenby flop, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, that he became the highest-paid actor in the world. Shame Diamonds is a dog, then. A convoluted plot that strains even the Bond franchise, an annoying Bond girl (Jill St John) and a silly satellite laser make this messier than the legal wranglings over Thunderball. (1971) 5

RADIO

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill (Radio New Zealand National, 8.10am). This morning Hill talks to top Kiwi female mountaineer and rock climber Pat Deavoll, whose out-there achievements include climbing all New Zealand’s 3000m peaks and conquering some of the most difficult multi-pitch climbs in Australia. Her book, Wind from a Distant Summit: the Story of New Zealand’s Top Woman Mountaineer, comes out on Monday. Then award-winning poet Kate Camp beams in live from the Frankfurt Book Fair, which is just down the road (relatively speaking) from Berlin, where she recently began the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writer’s Residency. Also today: Dr Kiran Martin, who operates a social development project caring for 400,000 slum dwellers in West Delhi; Playing Favourites with Chris Guise, Weta Workshop’s Lead Conceptual Designer on the upcoming Steven Spielberg movie The Adventures of Tintin; Nicky Saker from the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society, who discusses the exhibition Behind the Mask: Rediscovered Portraits of Katherine Mansfield; Poetry with John Adams; and Gardening with Kath Irvine. – Diana Balham

Heart Attack Alley and Ruby Frost Recorded Live at Roundhead Studios (95bFM, 11.00am and Friday, 2.00pm). Heart Attack Alley are an increasingly important part of the incestuous Auckland music scene: the blues trio features ex-Supergroover Karl Steven on harmonica and singer Caoimhe Macfehin, who are both in the Drab Doo Riffs, plus guitarist Kristal G. This combo evolved from jam sessions on Kristal’s front steps. They graduated to supporting Wanda Jackson when she toured here last year and then released a 7-inch recording in April. It’s called The Way to a Man’s Heart Is Through His Chest. Watch out, Karl. Next up it’s singer-songwriter Ruby Frost, born Jane de Jong, who grew up around the Christian music scene and the Parachute Music Festival, run by her parents, Mark and Chris de Jong. She branched out: as a music reporter for TV2’s The Erin Simpson Show and then into oddball pop, which led to her winning the MTV 42 Unheard music competition here in 2009 and then the pop category of the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Contest last year. There will be live streaming and podcasts on 95bfm.com and video here later. (The first part of this concert will be repeated on Radio New Zealand National, 4.10pm and Friday, 8.06pm.) – Diana Balham