Saturday Morning with Kim Hill (Radio New Zealand National, 8.10am). Telling stories could be a theme today: former Crown Counsel and barrister Peter Graham left the law to write about crime, concentrating on real cases from our history. His new book, So Brilliantly Clever, looks at the Parker/Hulme murder of 1954, promising to reveal the whole truth for the first time. Jack Ralston has always been preoccupied with sport, and he has a CV as thick as a weightlifter’s bicep. His jobs include 12 years of directing national and international events in a wide variety of sports, working with Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan and Carl Lewis with Nike Sports Entertainment, and his current gig as CEO of Gymnastics NZ. He has just released a memoir, The Sports Insider: A Life Among Champions. And American storyteller Jay O’Callahan makes a living travelling the world listening to the experiences of others and passing them on in his own inimitable fashion.
1995, photo Bradley Ambrose/HoS
Las Tetas/1995 Recorded Live at Roundhead Studios (95bFM, 11.00am and Friday, 2.00pm). Truly terrifying Auckland “thrash punk all-girl quartet” Las Tetas – whose connections with other bands are too numerous to mention – are up first today. Their unreleased track You’re Not Invited is one minute and 27 seconds of lead singer Renee shrieking “You’re not invited. You’re not invited. You know who you are!” (A Facebook posting reads: “You ARE invited!! We’re gonna be playing the baddest shit, come if you wanna hear some sick az music.”) If this sounds like you, by all means tune in. It’s all relative but 1995 are a slightly gentler male five-piece, also based in Auckland. They describe themselves as “Concrete/idol/pop” on their Myspace page. Make of this what you will. There will be live streaming and podcasts on 95bfm.com, and video on this website after November 12.
aimRenderAd(300, 250, '300X250','ContentRect','/POS=POS2'); if(!$.browser.msie){ ContentRect_frame = $("#ContentRect")[0]; ContentRect_frame.src = ContentRect_frame.src; }Jazz Concerts (Radio New Zealand Concert, 1.00pm). Television’s My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding showed us -travelling people were just old softies with terrible taste in clothes, but their music has always been another matter altogether. The gypsy band Latcho Drom is led by Christophe Lartilleux, who was born into a circus family and spent his childhood roaming through Europe in a caravan. Their seductive and mysterious music embraces the nomad cultures of Egypt, Turkey, Eastern Europe, France and Spain, with legendary jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt their main source of inspiration. This concert was recorded last July in the Théâtre de l’Agora in Montpellier, France.
Live: Dudley Benson with the Dawn Chorus (Radio New Zealand National, 4.10pm). Former ChristChurch Cathedral choirboy Dudley Benson hails from a goat farm in the Port Hills and is the kind of original performer who forms a genre all by himself. What it is I’m not sure. Amplifier website tried “indie-chorister” and “folk-popist” (but possibly meant “poppist”). Today’s concert, recorded in the Oratia Settlers Hall in West Auckland, is the final show of his 2010 nationwide tour of marae and community halls that featured songs from his second full-length album, Forest: Songs by Hirini Melbourne – reinterpretations of Melbourne’s native bird waiata – and other numbers from his back catalogue. He’s accompanied by his a cappella ensemble, alt-barbershoppers the Dawn Chorus, and beatbox singer Hopey One.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13Spectrum (Radio New Zealand National, 12.15pm). A group of Wellington College students were well-rewarded for pounding around the Basin Reserve to raise funds for Tanzanian villagers when they got to see exactly where the money went. They visited the East African nation and saw schools, dams and reticulation systems built with the $600,000+ amassed over 13 years during the college’s annual 40-hour runathon. Jack Perkins meets some of the students to find out what the project meant to them.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 14Music Alive (Radio New Zealand Concert, 8.00pm). New Zealand birdsong pops up again in this Christ-church Symphony Orchestra concert, which was recorded in that city’s town hall in October. One of the works, Messiaen’s Quadruple Concerto, includes the calls of the kokako, kakapo and mohua, as well as the ample talents of soloists Alexa Still (flute), Celia Craig (oboe), Galyna Zelinska (cello) and Natalia Sheludiakova (piano). Works by Wagner, Saint-Saëns and Adams are also on the programme.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17
Appointment (Radio New Zealand Concert, 7.00pm). Without wealthy Russian patroness and dancer Ida Rubinstein, we might never have heard Ravel’s famous Bolero, which she commissioned, but we would also have missed out on her saucy 1908 strip to the Dance of Seven Veils from Oscar Wilde’s Salome. In Forgetting Ida Rubinstein, Elric Hooper and Des Wilson present the first of two programmes about Rubinstein and her artistic contribution to the 20th century.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18Classic Concert (Radio New Zealand National, 11.06pm). Tonight it’s Lucinda Williams – Live at the Fillmore, recorded in San Francisco. The “Americana” country/blues/rock singer displayed her characteristic blend of passion and world-weariness over three nights back in 2004.
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