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Bali-wood

Apr 14, 2014 | Teaching

In December I went to Bali for five days to act in a TVC for a bookings.com campaign. It was a fabulous time, I have to confess. Sorry to skite, but we were spoilt rotten: practically by our lovely producer, Angela Hovey, and creatively by the awesome team from Traktor. I’ve got a travel article coming out with the NZ Herald about my adventures, which I’ll post on my Travel Writing page in due course.

PETER ON RADIO NEW ZEALAND NIGHTS

by | Dec 22, 2014 |

In July I chatted with Nights host on National Radio, Bryan Crump, about what it was like to live in Russia just after the fall of communism. That's me, a hundred years ago (it feels) admiring the view of the Moscow River and the Kievskii Voksal (train station) from...

Dublin, Ireland just before the big crash – Part I

by | Dec 21, 2014 |

Ireland was booming when I visited early in 2008. And the property crash was just around the corner. My accommodation was the swanky Chief O’Neill’s Hotel. It was part of the grand local commercial, residential and cultural development in Smithfield village. Now...

That tricky darn emotion!

by | Dec 18, 2014 |

It’s true that often-times we feel the obligation to emote very strongly – and we must rise to the occasion if the script’s big print tells us something like: ‘Bill bursts into tears.’ But anything that over-stimulates the actor’s inner censor is bad news. And apart...

Our Own Odysseys – Fall of Communism

by | Jul 29, 2014 |

Peter on Nights Well that was fun! I chatted with Nights host on National Radio, Bryan Crump, about 1992 and what it was like to live in Russia just after the fall of communism. It was cold, and rather alchololic (what's that in the coffee cup)? Anyway, here is the...

My Year of Living Dangerously II: Russia 1992

by | Jul 11, 2014 |

The latest in an ongoing series on Peter’s adventures in Russia. Sunday, 1 December 1991. As I blew in to Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow, I had about five words of spoken Russian; that’s all that had stuck from the six week intensive language course. I had as much...