Lydia Wevers
Lydia Wevers: Shining light on the life of Jane Mander
Jane Mander is best known for her 1920 novel The Story of a New Zealand River, widely thought to be the underlying narrative for Jane Campion's film The Piano. The daughter of an MP, sawmiller and… Audio
Bookmarks with Lydia Wevers
Professor Lydia Wevers is a literary historian and critic awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to literature. She tells us about her new book and why she's so fascinated with New… Audio
Lydia Wevers bids a fond farewell to the Stout Research Centre
After 17 years championing New Zealand studies and culture, Professor Lydia Wevers has just stood down as director of Victoria University's Stout Research Centre in Wellington. Audio
The Butcher's Shop series
From the Sunday roast to putting out the milk bottles, and those scratchy woolen jerseys knitted by Nana. Our primary products are a huge part of New Zealand culture. Audio
Farthest Flung, Holding Tight
In the year before the outbreak of the First World War, New Zealand was surprisingly modern and curiously recognisable. But we were also a nation of insecurities and fears.Who were we then? What did… Audio
The life and times of Germaine Greer
A personal conversation with a major literary figure of the last 40 years about her upbringing, and how she came to write some of the influential books she has created. Audio
Lydia Wevers: Victorian farm fiction
Director of the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington, and author of Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World. Audio