Blue

Where did the idea of the colour blue for boys and pink for girls actually come from? It's a question listener Elle Ve poses on the 'Every Little Thing' helpline and it sends host Flora Lichtmann down… Audio

Dan Slevin previews some of the less-heralded features in this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival.

"It's life's illusions I recall, I really don't know life at all"

Rebecca Blundell looks at Joni Mitchell's recordings from the '90s up to the present day (circa 2006), a time where Mitchell was… Audio

"If you had that house/ car/ bottle/ jar your lovers would look like movie stars"

Rebecca Blundell looks at Joni Mitchell's music in the '80s and her disdain for the social and political climate of… Audio

"Now we are black and white, embracing out in the lunatic New York night"

Rebecca Blundell looks at the three albums Joni Mitchell made with fretless jazz bass player Jaco Pastorius in the late… Audio

"The lights go down and it's just you up there"

Rebecca Blundell looks at Joni Mitchell's life in the early '70s from the recording of Blue which ended in Mitchell's emotional collapse, through her… Audio