Backch@t - Bloopers and Highlights (Series Three)

“Here is a taste of the best and worst of Backch@t 2000…goodnight.” Presenter Bill Ralston introduces this reel of outtakes and highlights from the Gibson Group arts series. The creative sector's issues of the day include installing Len Lye’s Wind Wand, arts funding, and arts patron Denis Adam’s thoughts on Te Papa’s arts displays. Ralston, reporters Mark Crysell and Jodi Ihaka, and film reviewer Chris Knox all get tongue-tied; there’s a tiff between two architecture panelists, brief appearances by Ian McKellen and Miriama Kamo, and opera singer Jonathan Lemalu hits a low note.

If I had a dollar for every arts funding crisis story I've done, I'd be playing tennis with John Hawkesby.

– Reporter Mark Crysell

Key Cast & Crew

Bill Ralston

Presenter

Chris Knox

Film Critic

Mark Crysell

Reporter

John Boyd

Director

Gordon Harcourt

Producer

Ian McKellen

Subject