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Wallace Chapman
Wallace Chapman is charged with drawing forth the panellists’ wisdom on all things sinful. His ‘day job’ spans presenting a politics show, running a streetstyle blog, developing a 13-part TV series called The New Old on trends that are coming back into fashion (think bespoke tailoring, baking and Christianity), and he’s just been commissioned by Penguin to write a book on ‘Slow Living’. Since 2008 Chapman has hosted the popular and one of a kind ‘pub politics’ show Back Benches on TVNZ7. “He’s disarming because he asks that very hard question in a very simple, direct way.” (Listener Jan 2012 issue 3740). So he’s well primed to tackle the subject of ENVY with the esteemed line-up we have for the first in the series of LATE.
Of the Envy panel says Chapman: “I couldn’t get a better dinner party wish list if I tried. Denise L’Estrange-Corbet, Sir Lloyd Geering, and Reuben Paterson. Fashion, Theology, and Art clashing in a maelstrom of ideas about ENVY. Now that’s something.”
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Anton Blank
Anton Blank (Ngati Porou/Ngati Kahungunu) is an Auckland writer and consultant. Anton's writing is concerned with issues of gender, race, sexuality and intimacy – and how these themes play out in a contemporary milieu. Blank has been published in collections from Tandem Press and Huia Publishers and is the editor of the new Maori literary journal Ora Nui.
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Brandi Hudson
Tainui, Te Arawa te Waka
Ko Kaputuhi te Marae
Ko Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Rarua, Ngati Pikiao te Iwi
Appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Independent Maori Statutory Board in May 2011, Brandi Hudson is committed to maintaining a strong cultural identity for Maori and for New Zealand. With her diverse background including working with various iwi on their Treaty settlements, she has a full kete of skills ranging from sport, education, health, to central and local government. Maori have been called “a proud people” and a stronger cultural identity could be critical to building this sense of pride. |
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Charles Royal
Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal is a musician and researcher whose work explores indigenous creativity. He is a graduate of the Victoria University School of Music and has a doctorate in theatre and film from the same university. He composes popular songs, traditional mōteatea chants and a variety of works for western instruments. Currently, Charles is a completing a new bilingual CD of music for his band Awatea and later this year will travel to Malaysia to compose and perform new music. |
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Gordon McLauchlan
Gordon McLauchlan has been a freelance writer for three decades. He has worked for the New Zealand Herald as a weekly columnist and as the books editor, he also served as an investigative reporter for the National Business Review and was presenter of two live television programmes earning the Presenter of the Year award for his work.
He is foundation chair of the Michael King Writers’ Studio Trust and has written 18 books, most recently The Passionless People Revisited – his 1976 book The Passionless People dubbed New Zealanders as “the living-dead, smiling zombies” while the latest version says Kiwis are “frowning zombies” who are “impotently aware that they have been drifting towards social and economic disaster for decades”. Probably not the best basis for pride.
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Hinewehi Mohi
Hinewehi Mohi is an accomplished singer/songwriter who developed a local and international following after the debut of her first album Oceania which showed her immense vocal talent. This extraordinary work continues to be popular nine years after its initial release with sales exceeding 70,000 worldwide and achieving double platinum success at home. Fans are also captivated by her dedication to Maori language and culture and to her family, particularly her daughter Hineraukatauri who was born with cerebral palsy.
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Peter Lineham
An author and history professor at Massey University, Peter Lineham's major field of research is eighteenth and nineteenth century English religious history and New Zealand religious history. His major books include There We Found Brethren, No Ordinary Union, Bible and Society, and Transplanted Christianity.
He is also council member and former chair of Scripture Union in New Zealand, a Vice President of Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship and a member of the Council Executive and Chair of the Academic Advisory Board of the Bible College of New Zealand. Pride was chosen as one of the church's Seven Deadly Sins – but is it still one of the most egregious sins in today's society? |
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