Article Magazine
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This Reading Life With Gregory Hill
French horn player Gregory Hill enjoyed a successful career in orchestras in both Australia and New Zealand, including three decades as a Principal player in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Throughout this time he secretly nurtured a passion for long-distance train travel, which he finally indulged in after his retirement.
His adventures on an epic railway journey from New Zealand to Spain has now been chronicled in his book, The Antipodean Express, which celebrates the enduring romance of traveling by train across 89 days of travel, on 33 trains, through 19 countries. It begins in New Zealand’s North Island, to the red centre of Australia, weaves past the volcanoes of Java, through East Asia and on into Europe.
I asked Greg for a sneaky peek at his reading life.
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Interview with Michael Hurst
Arts Laureate Michael Hurst ONZM is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated and successful stage and screen actors. His extensive career spanning more than four decades includes No Holds Bard, An Iliad, Hamlet, Macbeth, Chicago, The Life of Galileo, and most recently ATC’s King Lear. He will soon grace the stage at Wellington's Circa Theatre, starring in The Golden Ass, a one-man show he has written with Fiona Samuel and directed with John Gibson.
I caught up with Michael, mid-house move and deep in rehearsals, to find out what we can expect from the play, why he thinks a story written over 2,000 years ago is still relevant to audiences and how the heck he manages to juggle his multiple roles.
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Meet the Makers: Belinda Landsberry
Belinda Landsberry is a Sydney-based writer and illustrator whose picture book ANZAC Ted has just been re-released as a special 10th anniversary edition. With ANZAC Day just around the corner, I caught up with Belinda to ask a few questions about the book, her process for creating it and changes she's seen in the book world over the past 10 years.
