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From the Listener archive: Arts & Books

September 20-26 2008 Vol 215 No 3567

Arts & Music

  • Music Life after Bush of Ghosts by Gavin Bertram
    EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN TODAY, David Byrne and Brian Eno (everythingthathappens.com).

  • Classical A touch of Glyndebourne by Rod Biss
    Jenůfa, New Zealand Opera, Aotea Centre, Auckland, September 20-27; St James Theatre, Wellington, October 11-18.

  • Film Out of the past by Helene Wong
    UN SECRET, directed by Claude Miller.
    THE HOLLOW MEN, directed by Alister Barry.

  • DVDs DVDs by Tim Wong
    THE WIRE: THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON and THE COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON (Warner Bros).

  • Theatre Many unhappy returns by Faith Oxenbridge
    The Birthday Boy, by Carl Nixon, directed by Stephen Ray, Court One, Christchurch, until October 11.


Books

  • Books The storyteller by Denis Welch
    Newly honoured WH Oliver’s passion for narrative history has never dimmed.

  • Books Disunited States by David Hall
    MAN IN THE DARK, by Paul Auster (Faber & Faber, $35).

  • Books Once in a culture by Hamish Keith
    This is an edited extract from the memoir NATIVE WIT, by Hamish Keith (Godwit, $44.99), released September 19.

  • Books Old haunts by Neil Cross
    GHOST TRAIN TO THE EASTERN STAR, by Paul Theroux (Hamish Hamilton, $37).