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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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Explore some of cinema's most famous first deaths on a roaring rampage of film trivia and random tangents. No movie is too sacred (or too trashy) as hosts Tom and Jake discuss everything from Blade Runner to Bambi. Strap in, lock and load, it’s going to be a bumpy ride…
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Jesse Mulligan presents an upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time.
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Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published in 1913. It was the third book in an eleven part series known as the Barsoom Chronicles which relate to a sequence of exciting adventure tales set on the fictional planet of Barsoom. In the Barsoom series, Mars, assumed to be older than Earth, is a dying planet. “Barsoom” is the native word for Mars in the Martian language. The stories first appeared in serialized form in various magazines like All-Story, Argosy, Amazing Stories and ...
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The seventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1969 features our foreign film pick, Costa-Gavras’ Z. Directed and co-written by Costa-Gavras (from the novel by Vassilis Vassilikos) and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Jacques Perrin, Pierre Dux and Irene Papas, Z was nominated for five Oscars and won two. The contempor…
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969 Josh’s Pick)
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The sixth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1969 features Josh’s personal pick, Ronald Neame’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay by Jay Presson Allen (based on the Muriel Spark novel) and starring Maggie Smith, Pamela Franklin, Robert Stephens, Gordon Jackson and Jane Carr, The Prime of Miss …
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The fifth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1969 features our documentary pick, the Maysles brothers’ Salesman. Directed by Albert and David Maysles with Charlotte Zwerin, Salesman is a key film in the direct cinema movement. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.…
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The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1969 features the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner, Lindsay Anderson’s If….. Directed by Lindsay Anderson from a screenplay by David Sherwin and starring Malcolm McDowell, Robert Swann, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan and David Wood, If…. is the first of three films Anderson dire…
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Katy Gosset meets a Christchurch woman who's teaching a new generation of New Zealanders how to pickle and preserve.
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Feature interview: how to break up with your job
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Breaking up is hard to do in relationships, but also breaking up with your job.
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DOC has updated its list of environmental weeds.
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Book Critic: travels in post-war Vietnam and Marxism in NZ lit
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Dougal McNeill's Forms of Freedom, Marxist essays in New Zealand and Australia literature and Mary McCarthy's Vietnam.
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Tech Tuesday: The arrest of ‘Russia’s Zuckerberg’, Pavel Durov
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Tim Batt is in studio to look at the biggest story in tech right now: the arrest of Telegram's CEO.
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Some brand-new wallabies and what they mean for the environment
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Researchers have discovered a new species of wallaby living undetected around Rotorua.
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Matt Smith, a designer teamed up with his history buff father Mark, to create something unique.
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A recent RNZ investigation found dozens of parents jumping through hoops to import melatonin to help their kids sleep. So what are the safety concerns involved?
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We are living in the age of revolution, where economic and technological change is happening so fast it creates anxiety that spills over into politics. Populism rises along with scepticism about globalization and even democracy itself. If we don't cherish what we have, we'll lose what has been one of the great, great periods of progress in human hi…
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Op-shopping; some are born with an eye for it, some aren't so lucky. But according to today's experts, it doesn't have to be this way. Afternoons newsreader and vintage-shopping Queen Marama T-Pole and 'Thrift' podcast host Katy Gosset are both with Jesse today to offer their tips and tricks.
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Did you know that 80 to 90 percent of most beauty products are made up of water? But not Gaelle Thieme's. Her brand 'Dust & Glow' creates shampoos and other personal hygiene products that take the form of a powder. She says that by using one little bottle of her shampoo instead of your regular liquid stuff, you'll save the equivalent of about 3.5 l…
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TV Critic: ‘Douglas is Cancelled’, 'Guy Mont-Spelling Bee' and ‘The Night Manager’
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Afternoons TV critic Linda Burgess reviews British comedy-drama 'Douglas is Cancelled', Kiwi comedy 'Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee' and revisits the popular 2016 series 'The Night Manager'.
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Professor Sir Michael Berry is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists with a special interest in light. He's been in the country to deliver a lecture titled "The Physics of Light in Eighty Pictures", where he unveiled the hidden geometries behind rainbows, twinkling stars and sunlight reflections. Later today, he will deliver a lecture o…
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The history of Indian farmers in New Zealand
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The role of Indian migrants in New Zealand's dairy industry is a largely untold story. Early pioneers faced significant challenges in establishing successful farms during the 1920s, but the 1930s brought more prosperity. Today, Indian farmers are key players in New Zealand's dairy sector and are using their expertise to assist farm owners in India,…
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Kai's Education recognised as a top 50 EdTech startup
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Less than five years after launching, Kai's Education has been recognised as one of the top 50 Ed-Tech startups in New Zealand and Australia by HolonIQ. The company crafts 'mixed reality robots' that can be used in classrooms to give kids hands-on experiences with coding and robotics. Kai's Education co-founder Ronel Schodt talks to Jesse.…
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Critter of the Week: New Zealand hermit crab | kaunga
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This week's critter is the kaunga (New Zealand hermit crab, Pagurus novizealandiae), one of more than 60 species of hermit crab found in Aotearoa. Like other hermit crab species, kaunga move through many different shells during their lives. When they're in the market for a new home, they look for another crab with the right size shell to trade with…
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