Category Archives: Political

His first thought was “What the hell is the time”. When Geoff Robinson finally emerged from an uncommonly long sleep-in he caught only the last two minutes of his Morning Report successors before the time pips sounded nine o’clock.

Liam Finn is not interested in making easy-to-handle records. “There’s lots of great music out there but there’s a lot that just feels like people’s modern take on something that is already out there,” he says

A Chinese film and television star has broken social media records after posting a public apology to his wife on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, for having an affair.

After 44 years, veteran Radio New Zealand host Geoff Robinson is today signing off the airwaves. The farewell caps a career during which he has reported on some of the major news events, including the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, a multitude of elections, the Rainbow Warrior bombing in 1985, the Christchurch earthquakes, and the Aramoana massacre.

French satire Quai d’Orsay looks at the inner workings of the French foreign affairs ministry and there’s plenty to laugh about. When the door opens and actor Thierry Lhermitte walks into the hotel room I half expect him to be followed by a mini tornado of flying sheets of paper.

Filming is under way on a $3 million TV movie about a bizarre murder set against the 1970s backdrop of the capital’s colourful underground and its staid suburbia.

REVIEW: Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) just wants to get the hang of modern living. Having been cryogenically frozen for nearly 70 years, he has missed the key cultural moments of the 20th century, so it’s both funny and rather sweet when he whips out his notebook to record “Marvin Gaye” in his list of must-learns (which inexplicably also includes “Tim Tams”).

A South African performance artist is being tried in a French court after parading in front of the Eiffel Tower with a live cockerel attached to his penis. Steven Cohen wore red satin gloves, platform shoes and a feather headdress as he walked around the popular tourist spot with the rooster attached to his genitals by a white ribbon.

Other musicians, even of his vintage, might arrive at the start of a tour of Australia and New Zealand and find the nearest drinking den.

It was one of those moments that made you feel deeply, wonderfully proud to be Australian. The then Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott had been needling Prime Minister Julia Gillard for months – years, even – in his ‘everyman’ attempt to drag politics down to the gutter and keep it whimpering there.