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What connects dancing naked in Paris with escaping from Gloriavale, success in extreme sport, and a life as a female engineer?
4:06 PM.Four women tell Mirama Kamo stories from their adventurous lives: Hollie Woodhouse, Lilia Tarawa, Michelle Dickinson and Margaret Austin. Read more Audio
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Toast and marmite reveal sexism alive and well at King’s College in the era of girl power
4:06 PM.At the 2018 Word Christchurch writers' festival, 125 years of women's suffrage is discussed by a panel of leading New Zealanders. Kim Hill is in the chair. Read more Audio
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Ignorance about te ao Māori is regrettable, but wilful ignorance is much worse – Dame Anne Salmond
4:06 PM.At the 2018 Word Christchurch writers' festival, Dame Anne Salmond discusses with Eruera Tarena how her life has led to her most recent book Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds. Read more Audio
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From the quakes in Christchurch and Kaikōura – a family memoir exploring the idea of heroism and the meaning of home
4:06 PM.At the 2018 Word Christchurch writers' festival, Chessie Henry (and GP father Chris) discusses her family memoir We Can Make a Life with Bronywn Hayward. Read more Audio
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Islam must fight its enemies from within, as well as without, says UK author
4:06 PM.At the 2018 Word Christchurch writers' festival, Ed Husain discusses his book The House of Islam with Donna Miles-Mojab. Read more Audio
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Right-wing radicalism an under-acknowledged threat, according to investigative journalist David Neiwert
4:06 PM.Investigative journalist David Neiwert discusses his book Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Time of Trump with Paul Thomas. Read more Audio
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Presenting the Holocaust: one memoir, one novel, two very different approaches towards history from two leading writers
11:06 AM.Holocaust Family Secrets are explored by Vincent O'Sullivan and Diana Wichtel in this highlight from Wellington's Writers and Readers festival in 2018. Paula Morris is in the chair. Read more Audio
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A Muslim prisoner in a forced crucifixion pose? Something worth decoding, says Sarah Sentilles
4:06 PM.The author of Draw Your Weapons Sarah Sentilles talks to Jo Randerson at the NZ Festival Writers and Readers 2018 about depictions of violence and terror in contemporary culture. Read more Audio
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Don’t mention the peace – how reticence about the success of Europe led to Brexit
4:06 PM.Prof AC Grayling talks about Brexit, and the failure of the greater vision for the EU with MP Chris Finlayson. Read more Audio
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Emma Espiner: with access to tikanga, all New Zealanders can be Māori now
4:06 PM.In her 2017 essay We’re All Māori Now, writer Emma Espiner explored why Pākehā need to understand and embrace tikanga Māori (Māori customs). She joins fellow writers Māmari Stephens and Morgan Godfery… Read more Audio
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Patricia Lockwood on growing up as the daughter of a charismatic Catholic priest who is also a manic-depressive narcissist
4:06 PM.Patricia Lockwood talks to Kim Hill about a very particular Catholic upbringing in her memoir Priestdaddy, and its portrait of her father as a charming but damaged man. Read more Audio
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AC Grayling: Democracy in Crisis
4:06 PM.British philosopher AC Grayling investigates the “least worst” system of government – and the current alternatives – in a lecture at the 2018 NZ Festival Writers and Readers. Read more Audio
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Two deep thinkers on faith, fundamentalism, hope and humanity
4:06 PM.Theologian Lloyd Geering and writer Sarah Sentilles explore questions of faith at 2015 New Zealand Festival Writers and Readers. Read more Audio
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: a conversation
4:06 PM.Master these four elements and anything you cook will be delicious, says chef and best-selling author Samin Nosrat. She chats to fellow foodie Marianne Elliott at the 2018 NZ Festival Writers and… Read more Video, Audio
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David Walliams – Awful Adults
11:30 AM.Writer and comedian David Walliams on many things including James Bond, cross-dressing and his latest best-selling children's book, Awful Auntie. Read more Audio
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Poems, wives and children
11:05 AM.Professor of Contemporary Poetry and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Britain's poet laureate, visiting New Zealand for the 2015 Auckland Writers… Read more Audio
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Philip Ball: Science Writer
2:20 PM.Philip Ball writes on all sorts of science-related topics, including theories of colour, invisibility, and music. Eva catches up with him ahead of his talks at the Auckland Writers Festival and for… Read more Audio
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Auckland Writers Festival kicks off today...
8:58 AM.The organisers of the Auckland Writers' Festival are pegging this year's event as the biggest yet. Audio
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Emily St John Mandel: Canadian Author
2:42 PM.Emily St John Mandel's latest novel 'Station Eleven' recently won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction. She visits the Auckland Writers Festival this week, and tells Eva about… Read more Audio
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Shakespeare scholar Peter Holland
2:39 PM.University of Notre Dame scholar Peter Holland is fascinated with William Shakespeare's influence on modern culture. As part of the Auckland Writer's Festival; Peter is giving a talks called… Read more Audio
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Graphic Poetry
1:34 PM.We've all heard of graphic novels by now but what about graphic poetry? Auckland writer Rachel J Fenton is an exponent of this new hybrid art form and will be presenting selections of her work at the… Read more Audio
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David Mitchell
11:05 AM.Author of six novels, most recently The Bone Clocks, and translator with his wife Keiko Yoshida of The Reason I Jump, written at the age of 13 by autistic child Naoki Higishida. David Mitchell will… Read more Audio
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Invisibility and curiosity
9:15 AM.Editor for Nature magazine for over 20 years, and author of Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler, and… Read more Audio
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Peter Holland: Shakespeare expert
2:20 PM.Shakespeare Scholar and Alice Griffin Fellow at the University of Auckland. Read more Audio
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Natalie Haynes: Writer
2:20 PM.British writer coming to the Dunedin and Auckland Writers Festivals. Read more Audio
