{"podcast":{"title":"Culture 101","slug":"culture-101-6608135","podcast_index_feed_id":6608135,"rss_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/acast/culture-101.rss","website_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/culture-101","image_url":"https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--b9SMWAlB--/c_fill,f_jpg,h_2000,q_50,w_2000/v1769638787/4JU1RBB_culture_101_cover_external_v2_png.jpg?_a=BACCd2AD","author":"RNZ","episode_count":869,"summary":"Perlina Lau hosts a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-101-6608135"},"episode":{"title":"Fast Favourites: Dame Gaylene Preston","slug":"fast-favourites-dame-gaylene-preston","published_at":"2026-05-17T00:18:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-101-6608135/fast-favourites-dame-gaylene-preston","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-101-6608135","url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/culture-101/audio/2019035370/fast-favourites-dame-gaylene-preston","audio_url":"https://flex.acast.com/podcast.radionz.co.nz/coo/coo-20260517-1218-fast_favourites_dame_gaylene_preston-256.mp3","summary":"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.","meta_description":"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 w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1365,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/culture-101-6608135/episodes/fast-favourites-dame-gaylene-preston/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-101-6608135/fast-favourites-dame-gaylene-preston.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}