Sunday Night: March 27

This week on Sunday Night Alex Cullen meets Elvis Costello, plus a report on cryotherapy. Ouch.

Deep Freeze
The Japanese swear by it, Hollywood is embracing it, and now it’s heading our way. It’s called Cryotherapy – the health therapy that takes just three minutes and involves exposing yourself to the coldest temperatures on earth, a mind boggling minus 140 centigrade. But its proponents argue that it’s well worth it. They say it slows down the ageing process, burns calories and can even help improve your mental health – claims that have won over a legion of famous film stars and top-shelf sporting names who are all lining up to spend time in a super-cold mist of liquid nitrogen. But there are some in the scientific community who say it is nothing more than a health fad and that nature is just as effective at delivering cold as a cure all. With the first cryotherapy facility about to open in Australia, Sunday Night’s PJ Madam takes a cold hard look at the business of freezing your way to good health and investigates the case of the young woman in America who died while using a cryo machine.

The Other Elvis
As an up-and-coming singer-songwriter in the English music scene back in the 1970s, Declan Patrick MacManus felt that his name didn’t quite match his amazing talent. So he became Elvis Costello, a name that is forever linked to some of the biggest hits of the time: Watching the Detectives, I Don’t Want to go to Chelsea and the hauntingly beautiful ballad Alison. Nearly four decades later, Elvis is a musician still at the top of his game – a member of rock royalty with mates like Bruce Springsteen, Sting and Sir Elton John. The prolific performer has just released a book about his life and is now planning another world tour with Australia included. Sunday Night’s Alex Cullen caught up with Elvis to hear about one of his early tours down under which ended in a riot and the master musician’s unlikely fascination with an iconic Aussie bushman.

Sunday at 7.00pm on Seven.