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The Featherston Booktown PodcastBooktown | Bookten Gala Night: Ten Out of TenFor 10 years, Featherston Booktown has featured the best of this country’s literary talent. Our gala night birthday party gathered 10 of the hundreds of writers who’ve yarned and shared with us so generously. Each one read from work – published or unpublished – that they think best expresses them and what they want to say to the world. Anything goes!The 10 out of 10 were: Noelle McCarthy • Chris Tse • Carl Shuker • Shayne P Carter (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) • Dame Fiona Kidman • Victor Rodger • Roger Steele • Lars Mytting • Marilyn Waring • Selina Tusitala Marsh. Chaired by Featherston Booktown’s Peter Biggs.Recorded at the 2025 Feat...
2025-12-181h 40The Featherston Booktown PodcastFixing The Bear Pit: How To Make Parliament A More Humane And Positive PlaceThe hostile culture of Parliament has broken people and careers. Is there a better way to conduct the politics of the nation? Can our adversarial political system be changed? Former MPs debated the motion: Kiri Allan (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Rarawa), Marilyn Waring, Ron Mark (Ron’s iwi include: Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa) and Rick Barker. Our speaker was Peter Biggs, the Chair of Featherston Booktown Trust.Recorded at the 2025 Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival.Why not make a gift of membership to a loved o...
2025-11-191h 00The Featherston Booktown PodcastRogernomics: 40 Years On Through The Lens Of A Wairarapa CommunityThe radical economic reforms of the Fourth Labour Government 40 years ago, known as Rogernomics, had a devastating impact on rural communities, including Wairarapa. The dollar was floated, agricultural subsidies removed, GST introduced, forests sold and state-owned enterprises corporatised. The Post editor Tracy Watkins discussed the reforms with Wairarapa leaders Liz Mellish (Te Ātiawa, Taranaki, Ngāti Ruanui) and Bob Francis, who lived through the turmoil, and three politicians – Richard Prebble, Marilyn Waring and Rick Barker – who were in Parliament at the time.Recorded at the 2025 Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2025-11-061h 01The Featherston Booktown PodcastThe Pluck of the IrishNo country on the planet comes close to Ireland as a literary powerhouse. It has produced an impressive list of Nobel Laureates and Booker Prize winners and has a booming publishing scene, and now Ireland’s Granard Booktown Festival has a place on the map. What’s the secret behind Ireland’s literary success? How is it nurtured and sustained? Luck or pluck? Exploring these questions with chair Claire Mabey were Irish farmer and author John Connell, award-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy and acclaimed author Dame Fiona Kidman.Recorded at the 2025 Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival.http...
2025-10-2259 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastYeah, It’s All Good: Men Keeping Themselves WellWhy do men, especially in rural areas, struggle to talk about their problems? What’s standing in the way? Are the men of today okay, and how do they keep themselves well? This was a candid conversation about masculinity, society, health, wealth, life, death and everything in between, featuring writers and personalities Matt Heath and Paddy Gower; Federated Farmers President and YOLO Farmer Wayne Langford; and Irish farmer and writer John Connell. Phil Quin asked the questions.This episode was recorded at the 2025 Featherston Booktown Karukate Festival.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2025-10-0856 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastWestport Wāhine: Becky and MelWhen singer Mel Parsons and author Becky Manawatu exploded onto the Aotearoa arts scene, there was nowhere more proud than Westport. Mel and Becky grew up in and around Westport and were in the same year at Buller High School. Both of them have recently launched exciting new work: Sabotage and Kataraina. Anika Moa (Ngāpuhi, Te Aupōuri) asked two of Aotearoa’s best how much they inspire each other and what it is in the Westport water.Recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival on 11th May 2025.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2025-09-2554 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastOn the Couch: Lars Mytting - His life and workLars Mytting is a writing phenomenon. He’s one of Norway’s most acclaimed writers, with more than two million books sold, and available in 24 languages. On publication, his fiction ignites a global reading frenzy, but Lars’ first success was Norwegian Wood, written about ‘chopping, stacking and drying wood in the Scandinavian way’. Lars spoke to New Zealand novelist Cristina Sanders, a descendant of Norwegian settlers.Recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival on 10th May 2025.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2025-09-1158 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastSwimming Upstream: The Rise Of Sri Lankan Writing In AotearoaSaraid de Silva’s bestselling Amma, longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize, is one of a stream of successes for Sri Lankan New Zealand authors: romesh dissanayake launched a novel and a poetry collection in 2024, and Brannavan Gnanalingam launched The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat, following his Ockham-shortlisted Sodden Downstream and Ngaio Marsh winner Sprigs. Dinithi Bowatte asked what success means and how the writers got there. Recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival on 10th May 2025.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2025-08-281h 03The Featherston Booktown PodcastThe Way of WaiataWaiata are more than songs; they are a way of preserving history, culture and language by passing them down through generations. Waiata Māori connect people to whenua, whakapapa and whānau. Join a waiata kōrero with our panel of experts: Ria Hall (Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui), Anika Moa (Ngāpuhi,Te Aupōuri) and Warren Maxwell (Tūhoe, Kahungunu, Ngāi Te Rangi and Scotland).Recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival on 10th May 2025.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2025-08-191h 01The Featherston Booktown PodcastDesign A Vagina: Memoir #2 From Ruth ShawRuth Shaw is on a mission to help rural women sort their prolapses, a common, disruptive and often embarrassing condition that can be prevented with the right treatment. She writes about it in part two of her provocative and funny memoir Three Wee Bookshops at the End of the World, which launched at Featherston Booktown. Ruth was in conversation with Kristy McGregor, editor of Shepherdess magazine.This episode was recorded live at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea festival on 10th May 2025.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2025-08-0853 min
Better off ReadEp 149: Saraid de Silva and Pip chat live at Featherston Booktown
This recording was made live at Featherston Booktown on 10 May 2025. It was a really sunny day and Saraid and I sat in the Featherston Library with the sun streaming in the windows with a really great group of people.
Saraid is an amazing writing. Saraid's novel Amma is a really great work of fiction and I recommend to anyone who hasn't read it yet.
At the moment I'm asking guests to offer and object for discussion. Saraid brought along a suite of articles about money and housing and how...
2025-05-3055 min
Culture 101Norwegian culture, heritage and woodstacking with bestselling author Lars MyttingIn the 1860s and 70s two Norwegian settlements were established in the lower North Island. As the name of one of those today suggests - Norsewood - Norwegians were invited to settle here to clear a huge swathe of forest known as Seventy Mile Bush. Which makes the arrival of Norwegian novelist Lars Mytting this weekend down the road at Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival rather apt.
2025-05-1129 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastPioneers of Hop & Grain: From Speight’s to Parrotdog and BeyondNew Zealand has had a long and storied love affair with beer, the world’s oldest drink. In Continuous Ferment, Greg Ryan charts that story – why we love it, why we love so much of it and how our tastes have changed. He talked with journalist and beer lover Denise Garland about a history “of rogues and inventors, big business power and small business determination, national debate and social upheaval."This episode was recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival in May 2024.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2025-03-1154 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastThe Dilemma of a BibliophileBook collecting is variously described as a passion, an obsession and even a disease. Bookselling the same. Bookseller Ruth Shaw (Bookshop Dogs) and book collector Tony Eyre (The Book Collector) talked about the affliction/gift of bibliophilia, where it’s taken them in their lives and the dilemma of where to put all the books. Fellow bibliophile and Masterton bookseller David Hedley was in the chair.This episode was recorded at the 2024 Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2025-02-2555 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastThe New Zealand WarsIt has been said the New Zealand Wars were more significant in shaping our country than Te Tiriti o Waitangi. This session explores whether that is true and digs deeper into a troubled time in our history. With sociology academic Joanna Kidman (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa), historians and authors Chris Pugsley and Vincent O’Malley, former director of the Waitangi Tribunal Buddy Mikaere (Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāti Ranginui) and author of Patu, Gavin Bishop (Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Mahuta, Tainui), with Peter Biggs moderating.This discussion was recorded at the Featherston Bo...
2025-02-111h 31The Featherston Booktown PodcastAuthor Spotlight: Carl HaymanWhat does it mean to be a modern All Black, expected to perform at a mental and physical peak when player body mass has increased by 30% since the 1960s and new research is showing the horrifying impact of head injuries on rugby player brains? All Black 1000, Carl Hayman, wrote Head On after discovering his injuries had led to early-onset dementia. He joined his co-author Dylan Cleaver to talk about the new realities of the sport we love.This episode was recorded at the 2024 Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2025-01-281h 03The Featherston Booktown PodcastAuthor Spotlight: The Secret Life Of Steve BrauniasSteve Braunias is an author, columnist, journalist and literary editor of Newsroom. He is also one of the country’s leading writers of satire and his 2021 book Missing Persons won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Non-Fiction. Linda Clark drilled down into what makes the Tauranga-born writer tick, including the feeling behind the writing of his latest book that he was a missing person himself.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2025-01-1458 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastOn the Couch: Tāme ItiTāme Iti (Ngāi Tūhoe, Waikato, Te Arawa) is known as many things – activist, artist, actor, author, terrorist and cyclist. He rose to prominence as a member of the protest group Ngā Tamatoa more than 40 years ago, becoming a key figure in the Māori protest movement and cultural renaissance. Community advocate and social change activist Denis O’Reilly was in conversation with one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most captivating and controversial figures.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2024-12-1256 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastWomen On A Mission: Linda Clark and Moana ManiapotoLinda Clark and Moana Maniapoto are huge admirers of each other’s work. Fan girls, even. Moana is a musician, activist and journalist, and Linda is a lawyer, writer, and former broadcaster. In a delightful kōrero of the heart and mind, the two women interviewed each other about the various strands that make up their lives and how they weave them into their own kete to carry the gifts of the world and make change where they can.This episode was recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival in May 2024.https://www.booktown.org.nz...
2024-11-241h 03The Featherston Booktown PodcastPasifika Power 2024Be thrilled and amazed by spoken word poetry created by Pasifika rangatahi at a three-day Young Readers Programme workshop and brought to the public for the first time. Poet Nafanua Kersel hosted the event, which also included more poetry readings and a panel talanoa about the life and dreams of the South Auckland Poets’ Collective with co-founders Grace Teuila Taylor, Ramon Narayan, Daren “dk” Kamali, and was moderated by Ole Maiava.This episode was recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival in May 2024.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2024-11-081h 18The Featherston Booktown PodcastWord Gets Around: Songwriting With Delaney Davidson & Barry SaundersDelaney Davidson and Barry Saunders are storytellers who use music as their medium, and coming together as collaborators has taken them in new and exciting directions. “These songs just started appearing out of the kitchen air,” said Davidson, “and we were grabbing them as fast as we could.” They talked with Lucy Cooper at the Karukatea Festival in May 2024 about “the strange territory” they share making music together.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2024-10-2359 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastTe Tiriti o Waitangi: What Tangata Whenua SayTe Tiriti o Waitangi remains as important today as it did when it was first signed 184 years ago, but how can Aotearoa honour it, what are the key challenges and where do tangata whenua stand? Papawai Marae kaumātua Paora Ammunson (Ngāti Kahungunu/Rangitāne) welcomed the Featherston Booktown audience and Tāme Iti (Ngāi Tūhoe, Waikato, Te Arawa), Moana Maniapoto (Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) and Te Maire Tau (Ngāi Tahu) shared their views on the Treaty today, as moderated by Shane Te Pou (Ngāi Tūhoe).This episode was recorded at...
2024-10-081h 25The Featherston Booktown PodcastThe Crewe MurdersThe murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 remains Aotearoa New Zealand’s most famous cold case. It spawned two trials, two appeals, a Royal Commission finding of police corruption and a free pardon, and still the killer has not been found. Journalists Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings conducted their own investigation in their new book The Crewe Murders and talked with Missing Persons author, Steve Braunias at this year's Karukatea Festival.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2024-09-2457 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastThe Magic of MushroomsLiv Sisson (Fungi of Aotearoa) and Zach Cotogni (Blue Honey) are on a mission to show Aotearoa New Zealand how important fungi are for the mental and physical health of human beings and the health of the planet. From lichen to psilocybin, they explored the world of mushrooms with renowned forager Helen Lehndorf (A Forager’s Life).This episode was recorded at the 2024 Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2024-09-1049 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastOn the Couch: Gregory O'BrienIf anyone in Aotearoa New Zealand deserves the description polymath (a person of wide knowledge and learning), it is Gregory O’Brien. Not only did Gregory win at this years Ockham awards, for best illustrated non-fiction with Don Binney: Flight Path, this poet, artist, art curator, and writer of fiction and non-fiction, also flew to Manchester, UK to set up an exhibition of his artwork.He has received numerous literary awards and an ONZM. During our Festival this year, Gregory was joined by author and art writer Catharina van Bohemen as she investigated the...
2024-08-2757 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastWhere's Left? What Does That Even Mean?The left is at a crossroads in New Zealand – the Labour Party struggles to be relevant while the radical left gathers strength in other parties. Do lefties want the traditional face of the Labour Party anymore? How do the Greens and Te Pāti Māori present themselves as credible options to govern? John Campbell asked the hard questions of trade unionist Craig Renney, activist and CEO of Childfund Josie Pagani, former Green MP Sue Bradford and journalist and communications consultant Chris Wikaira (Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāpuhi). This session was recorded live at the 2024 Featherston Booktow...
2024-08-131h 26The Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 14: Warren MaxwellThis week, Shane Te Pou and Phil Quin sat down with musician/teacher/local legend - Featherston’s own Warren Maxwell. Warren has made a significant contribution to music both in New Zealand and internationally as a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and a driving force behind many musical projects including Trinity Roots, Fat Freddy's Drop and Little Bushman. Warren is also a longtime friend of Featherston Booktown and a presenter at this year’s Young Reader’s Programme.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2024-05-0232 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 13: Kirsty JohnstonThe murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 remains Aotearoa New Zealand’s most famous cold case. It spawned two trials, two appeals, a Royal commission finding of police corruption and a free pardon, and still the killer has not been found. Journalists Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings conducted their own investigation in their new book The Crewe Murders.Kirsty talks to Shane Te Pou and Phil Quin about the infamous murder case and the state of journalism today.Content warning: this episode contains mentions of murder an...
2024-04-2637 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 12: Dame Susan DevoyDame Susan Elizabeth Anne Devoy is a New Zealand former squash player and senior public servant. As a squash player, she was dominant in the late 1980s and early 1990s, winning the World Open on four occasions. She served as New Zealand's Race Relations Commissioner from 2013 to 2018. Her new book ‘Dame Susy D’ is out now from Allen & Unwin.Dame Susan is the Guest Speaker for the Fish’n’Chip Supper at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival. On this episode, she joins Shane Te Pou and Phil Quin to talk about the new book and her varied career.
2024-04-1833 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 11: Fighting for a World that Does Not Yet Exist - The Necessity of Activism.As a word, “activism” is only about 100 years old – yet activists and movements for change have become a regular feature of social, civic, and political life in the 21st century. However, activism is about human beings motivating and confronting other human beings to change, thereby being a fundamental human activity. Four prominent Aotearoa New Zealand activists, Denis O’Reilly, Dame Catherine Healy, Liz Mellish and Shaneel Lal share their absorbing personal and political journeys of words and actions with Guyon Espiner.This episode was recorded live at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival in May 2023.The audio wa...
2024-02-271h 31The Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 10: More Than a Magpie - The Novels of Catherine ChidgeyCatherine Chidgey has been one of this country's leading fiction writers for a quarter of a century, producing novels that are both provocative and sublime, starting with In a Fishbone Church and including two novels set in Nazi Germany. Her Ockham Book Awards shortlisted book The Axeman's Carnival, has astonished readers with its magpie narrator and been called a 'Kiwi Gothic classic'. She has been awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, the Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters and the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize. Catherine Chidgey was in conversation with Linda Clark at the 2023 Karukatea Festival.This...
2024-01-301h 06The Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 9: Pasifika PowerPasifika voices are among the most powerful in Aotearoa's New Zealand literary scene – original, provocative, funny, uplifting and heart-breaking. Four leading Pasifika writers – Victor Rodger, Nafanua Purcell Kersel, Tusiata Avia and Gina Cole – came together to at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival in May 2023 read their own work and riff with host Makerita Urale.This audio and video of this event was recorded by Toby Mills from Noise Productions.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2023-11-1656 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 8: Invasion and Resistance: Facing up to ParihakaNovember the 5th is a day of grief for Hon. Mahara Okeroa and Ockham Book Awards shortlisted author Rachel Buchanan, whose tūpuna were on the whenua when the Crown troops descended; a day of shame for Richard Shaw, whose great-grandfather was with the armed constabulary; a day of knowledge for academic Vincent O’Malley, who seeks to find the truth behind the records; and a day of atonement for former Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson, who delivered the Crown apology. The discussion attempted to face up to Parihaka and what it means to New Zealanders and was moderated by...
2023-11-041h 31The Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 7: Late Night Lit - Poet's CornerLate at night is when poets come to life and are at their best. Now you can re-live some of the best poets and poetry in Aotearoa NZ – Poet Laureate Chris Tse, Sam Duckor-Jones, Rachel Buchanan, Debbie Broughton and Frankie Leota captured during their performance at Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival in May this year. https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2023-08-2459 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 6: Andrea VanceIn this episode, Phil Quin talks to Andrea Vance, author of 'Blue Blood: The Inside Story of the National Party in Crisis.'Andrea Vance is a senior journalist at Stuff. Born in Northern Ireland, she worked in the Press Gallery at the New Zealand Parliament for nearly a decade, first with Stuff and then TVNZ. She spent seven years as an investigative journalist with the News of the World and was night news editor at the Scotsman. She is a Press Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. Musical theme by Kolya M...
2023-07-1744 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 5: Roger SteeleRoger Steele ONZM is a nearly retired publisher on the Kāpiti Coast. Over 25-odd years his company launched hundreds of fine writers and safeguarded a great deal of Aotearoa’s national treasure. His first published book was J.C. Sturm’s poems, and his last will be her collected works, later this year. Roger talks with Shane and Phil about his publishing experiences and what the future may hold for the publishing business.Roger Steele is appearing at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2023 in 'Author Spotlight: The Pioneering Life and Work of Jacquie Sturm/Te Ka...
2023-05-1024 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 4: Sam Duckor-JonesSam Duckor-Jones is an artist & writer formerly of the Wairarapa, now of the West Coast. He has published two poetry collections with THWUP & shows regularly with Bowen Galleries. His current project is the immersive public sculpture Gloria of Greymouth.Sam will be appearing at multiple events during the Karukatea Festival, including Late Night Lit: The Mansfield Mash-up, Late Night Lit: Poet's Corner as well as curating his 'Paint it Pink: Pop Up Gloria' installation throughout the weekend.You can find more of Sam's work HERE.The Festival Programme can be found H...
2023-05-0426 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 3: Ryan CahillRyan Cahill is an Epic Fantasy author from Dublin, Ireland, now residing in New Zealand. His book series 'The Bound and The Broken' have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide. Ryan talks with Shane and Phil about how he forged his path as a writer and found success by doing things his way.Ryan Cahill will be appearing at Featherston Booktown as part of the 'Other Worlds - Sci-fi and Fantasy Fiction in New Zealand' event on Saturday 13 May. Tickets available HERE.Find Ryan Cahill's website HEREThe Festival Programme can be found HERE.
2023-04-2727 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 2: Mary BiggsIn this episode, Shane Te Pou and Phil Quin talk to Featherston Booktown Operations Manager Mary Biggs about some of the highlights of the 2023 Festival programme.The Festival Programme can be found at: https://www.booktown.org.nz/Tickets available HERE.Produced by Denver Grenell & Phil Quin for Featherston Booktown. Engineered by Huck Jackson at Radio Waatea.Edited by Denver Grenell.Musical theme by Kolya Marks.Artwork by Chris Miller.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2023-04-2012 minThe Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 1: Shayne P. CarterHosts Shane Te Pou and Phil Quin talk to the legendary Shayne P. Carter (Straitjacket Fits, Dimmer) about his career in music and his writing process.Shayne will join broadcaster and Ockham Book Awards short-listed author Nick Bollinger and Featherston musician extraordinaire Warren Maxwell (Trinity Roots, Little Bushman) for 'Notes on the Page: Writing Music' at Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2023, where they will discuss their different approaches to their work and the challenges of making a life in music.Shayne P. Carter's autobiography, 'Dead People I Have Known', is out now from Victoria University Press.
2023-04-1331 min
Sideways: The Life of WineS2: The Big Sideways Update - Part 2This is the second episode in Series 2.
Rex has done his research on his campervan trip around NZ (thanks to Maryann at Pacific Horizon Campervan Rentals (https://pacifichorizon.co.nz/). Rex is madly typing away and averaging 2,000 words a day! He's now based at Prophet's Rock near Lake Dunstan.
In this second half episode to Part 1 released last week, Rex continues to talk to Youie about an assortment of topics and in this half of the discussion, we talk about independent book stores, a book club on Mt. Pleasant, book signings, some dramatic journeys Rex...
2022-09-2540 min
Wigtown Book Festival PodcastFestival 2020 Day 9: Featherston Book TownOn today's episode we're teaming up with our sister book town, Featherston, to celebrate all things New Zealand. Featherston became a full member of the International Organisation of Booktowns two years ago in 2018 and so we’re taking the opportunity to present an episode with a distinctive New Zealand flavour. We talk to the former poet laureate of New Zealand, Selina Tusitala Marsh, about what life was like as a poet laureate and how poetry found her. We discuss what it's like to teach a course on Scottish crime fiction in New Zealand and find out more about a Dunedin-James Ho...
2020-10-0254 min