# Fast Favourites: Dame Gaylene Preston

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Podcast: [Culture 101](https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-101-6608135)
Published: 2026-05-17T00:18:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/culture-101/audio/2019035370/fast-favourites-dame-gaylene-preston
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## Resource

Dame Gaylene Preston failed her art school degree. The F appeared in the paper the morning results were published. What followed was a move to Cambridge with her husband, a job as assistant librarian at a 900-bed psychiatric hospital, and the discovery that film could give institutionalised patients a voice and a way to prepare for the terrifying prospect of being released into a world that wasn't ready for them. She joins Culture 101 for Fast Favourites, and to talk about Grace: A Prayer for Peace, her new film about artist Dame Robin White, available on RNZ Video.. A visual poem rather than a conventional documentary, it follows White's 50-year practice across New Zealand, Japan and al-Mahdi, and has become the first New Zealand film selected for the Hiroshima Film Festival.

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