From the New Zealand Listener archive
January 24-30 2004 Vol 192 No 3324
Features
Upfront Taika Waititi by Gordon Campbell
So you’re 28, your movie is in the Sundance Film Festival … and in a few days Robert Redford will...Christmas in Sim City by Alistair Bone
The New Zealand Army Engineers based in Basra are trying to rebuild a city ravaged by war. Amid the chaos and ever-present danger, small victories are won.Word and deed by Felicity Monk
Language scholar Ian Gordon thanks his old university with more than words.Crowded house by Olivia Kember
Why, worldwide, young adults are flocking back to live with mum and dad.Word of honour by David Hill
A writer much celebrated by young readers grapples with another kind of recognition.Mother of tongues by Alex Spence
An intrepid journey to the source of our regional languages.
Arts & Books
One urban reptile said to the other by Jane Bowron
Film In which Taranaki presents Tom Cruise with a great big turkey by Philip Matthews
Poetry A New Year's resolution by Kevin Ireland
Books
Heavenly creature by Angela Neustatter
New Zealand books: new and noted by Steve Braunias
Mr & Mrs Baxter by David Hill
Warning: they’re 69, and freshly in love by Fiona Rae
England in briefs by Jane Clifton
Nurse! I need a Ruth Rendell by Hedley Mortlock
The last words of a live donkey by Julia Millen
Let us now praise a bunch of lunatics by Barry Reay
With your pencil in your hand by Nick Bollinger
By Anthony Bozo by Jim Pinckney
TV & Radio
Radio review House rules, ok by Jon Gadsby
Radio week You be the judge by Felicity Monk
TV films Goodbye yellow brick road by Philip Matthews
TV review Finger pickin’ good by Mark Revington
TV week All in the mind by James Cardno and Amy Prebble
