The award-winning Backch@t series - fronted by current affairs reporter and media personality Bill Ralston - focused on the New Zealand arts scene in its broadest sense, from museum building to McCahon. "Investigating our culture" was how The Listener promoted the series and in keeping with Ralston's journalist background, it took a ‘news' approach to the arts - debating topics in the studio, interviewing the personalities, covering the sector stories, and reviewing films, CDs, and books.
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 ...