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Backch@t was a magazine-style arts and culture show that appealed, from the opening acid-jazz theme tune, to a literate late-90s arts audience. Fronted by media personality Bill Ralston, these excerpts from the first episode come out guns blazing with a debate by panellists about Tania Kovats's controversial artwork 'Virgin in a Condom', the sculpture that caused national upset when it was exhibited at Te Papa in 1998. Managing to keep a panel discussion convivial rather than confrontational, Ralston handles the catholic debate with aplomb.
Made by television programme makers, Gibson Group, and hosted by high profile media man, Bill Ralston, Backch@t distinguished itself from previous arts programmes by looking at the arts ...
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Television, 2004 (Excerpts)
A later arts series from the Gibson Group
Television, 2004 (Excerpts)
A later arts series from the Gibson Group
Television, 1993
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Television, 2005
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Television, 2004 (Excerpts)
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Film, 1995 (Excerpts)
An insightful, idiosyncratic and liberally illustrated analysis of New Zealand cinema
Television, 1997 (Full Length Episode)
Backch@t host Bill Ralston is a guest on this show
Television, 2010 (Full Length)
Bill Ralston was a political reporter on Nightline
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