Our future on a plate
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Books
Issue 3816 20th Jun 2013
A food system built around the holy trinity of local, seasonal and organic “simply won’t cut it”, says a controversial UK restaurant critic and author.
Diana Wichtel
(@DianaWichtel) Diana Wichtel joined the Listener in 1984, armed only with a portable typewriter, a ghetto blaster for recording interviews and a love of the media acquired during a childhood spent in a darkened room in Vancouver, reading magazines while watching television. She lives in Auckland with her partner and has three children, two grandchildren and an iPad. Otherwise, nothing much has changed.
Diana Wichtel: the PM, the Princess and the pig
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Television
Issue 3816 20th Jun 2013
A new series excoriates the media, politics and public voyeurism.
Diana Wichtel talks to Richard Clayderman
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Classical
Issue 3815 14th Jun 2013
The Prince of Romance and world's most successful pianist shares the love ahead of a trip to New Zealand.
Diana Wichtel: Prisoner reborn as Wentworth
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Television
Issue 3815 13th Jun 2013
If only Danielle Cormack's hapless Aussie redhead had been following Coronation Street.
Diana Wichtel: My Kitchen Rules, MasterChef, and recipes for distress
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Television
Issue 3814 6th Jun 2013
Unfortunately, food shows come with the culinary equivalent of sportspeak.
Confessions of a psychoanalyst
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Current Affairs
Issue 3813 5th Jun 2013
Stephen Grosz has turned the thousands of hours of conversations with patients into compelling personal stories.
War Horse: The mane chance
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Books
Issue 3813 31st May 2013
War Horse, a book that came out in 1982 to little acclaim, has gone on to become a theatrical event worldwide, thanks to extraordinary puppetry.
Diana Wichtel: Cross purposes
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Television
Issue 3813 30th May 2013
Jesus is alive and well and living in Kingaroy, apparently
Diana Wichtel: Not-so-sharp shindig
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Television
Issue 3812 23rd May 2013
While TV1 seems content to party on, TV3 is getting down to business.
Diana Wichtel: For crying out loud
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Television
Issue 3811 20th May 2013
The X Factor NZ – never mind the performances, feel the viewer manipulation.