{"id":251276,"date":"2026-01-25T16:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251276\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:35:11","slug":"sunday-miscellany-sunday-25-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251276\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Miscellany Sunday 25 January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New writing (from Miscellany 50: The Archives, a special series celebrating the writing Sunday Miscellany featured in its first 50 years. This programme focused on the theme of &#8216;work&#8217;):<\/p>\n<p>On Work by John Ryan (from circa 1971)<\/p>\n<p>Hard Labour by Angela O&#8217;Rourke (from 1996)<\/p>\n<p>An Ill Wind by Lar Redmond (from 1981)<\/p>\n<p>Market Day by Benedict Kiely (from 1971)<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Beckett, The Work &amp; The Man by James Plunkett (from 1991)<\/p>\n<p>Walking the Marathon by Sharon Hogan (from 2006)<\/p>\n<p>Music:<\/p>\n<p>Intermezzo from Il Campiello by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, performed by Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra<\/p>\n<p>Perpetuum Mobile, performed by the Penguin Caf\u00e9 Orchestra<\/p>\n<p>Soaring by Schumann, performed on piano by Arthur Rubinstein<\/p>\n<p>the Minuet from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart, performed by the Czech Chamber Orchestra<\/p>\n<p>Meditations, by Preizner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New writing (from Miscellany 50: The Archives, a special series celebrating the writing Sunday Miscellany featured in its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-251276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}