Talk Talk - Series Two

Series two of this studio-based series showcases conversations and music from Kiwi creatives. Over 13 episodes, journalist and former Listener editor Finlay Macdonald interviews artists of all stripes; poets, songwriters, actors, painters and beyond, including Bic Runga, Scribe, poet Michele Leggott, Sam Neill and choreographer Raewyn Hill. Episodes begin with a studio interview, a musical interlude follows and a final interview completes the show. The guests discuss their history and the realities of sustaining an artistic career in Aotearoa. Macdonald brings up the work each artist is best-known for, and asks about the ways they keep inspiration alive. Check out this episode guide.

...a big part of the book is actually about . . . not just my relationship with that very particular childhood in the Cold War on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain if you like. But it's also about our relationship with our own childhood and with memory, and what it means to revisit our childhood...

– Writer Kapka Kassabova on her book Street Without A Name, in episode two

Key Cast & Crew

Murray Grindlay

Subject (episode 4), Performer

Sam Neill

Subject (episode 1)

Colin Hogg

Producer

Finlay Macdonald

Presenter, Interviewer

Roger Hall

Subject (episode 10)

Whirimako Black

Performer, Subject (episode 8)