Billy T Billy: New NZME podcast explores the stories behind the punchlines
13 May, 2021 06:00 PM
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James Mustapic, Lana Walters, Brynley Stent and Josh Davies
NZ Herald
By: Ethan Sills
The Billy T Award is one of the most prestigious honours in New Zealand comedy, a title linked to many of our top comedic exports, and it s the subject of NZME s brand new podcast.
Billy T Billy pairs up the 2021 Billy T nominees with a different winner for a half-hour discussion on everything comedy related – from good advice and bad gigs, through to the competitiveness of the award and what actually goes in to making a Comedy Festival show.
Billy T Billy Episode Three: Lana Walters and Rhys Mathewson
11 May, 2021 06:00 PM
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Lana Walters and Rhys Mathewson. Photo / Supplied
NZ Herald
The cost of staging a one-hour show, writing comedy while pregnant, and performing with your heroes on stage are some of the topics discussed in the third episode of NZME s new comedy podcast,
Billy T Billy.
The podcast is giving this year s nominees of the prestigious Billy T Award at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival the chance to seek advice from former winners – as well as discuss all things comedy and what it s really like being a comedian in New Zealand.
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 1:28 pm | ANZMES May 12 marks the international Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
(ME/CFS) Awareness Day, on Florence Nightingale’s birthday (as it is thought she
developed ME/CFS after an infection contracted during the Crimean war). Each year . More
Friday, 10 May 2019, 9:57 am | ANZMES
Approximately 20,000 individuals in New Zealand are currently diagnosed with Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), a complex and debilitating neuroinflammatory
illness. More
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 1:28 pm
May 12 marks the international Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Awareness Day, on Florence Nightingale’s birthday (as it
is thought she developed ME/CFS after an infection
contracted during the Crimean war). Each year on this day
ANZMES (the national advisory body for ME/CFS in New
Zealand) seeks to provide education and build awareness, as
well as advocate for and support those with ME/CFS and their
families. This year, with COVID-19 still present globally,
attention must also be on those diagnosed with Long
COVID.
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) is a
“serious biological disease” causing disabling symptoms