Buller’s Birds Re-imagined
150 years on from the original landmark study of New Zealand’s birdlife, Buller’s Birds were re-imagined and J G Keulemans re-discovered in Geoff Norman Buller’s Birds of New Zealand. This revision an...
13 Aug 202041min
Here Comes That Childhood Pond Again
This session from 2013 is titled after the first line of Peter Bland’s poem The Pond, Here Comes that Childhood Pond Again. The conversation between poet, writer, actor and playwright Peter Bland and ...
11 Aug 202041min
Marilyn Waring Oratory at Going West
Marilyn Waring delivered the Gala Night oratory at the Going West Books and Writers Festival in 2002, speaking to the theme Tracking the Vernacular.Made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Me...
6 Aug 202034min
Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings
In her prizewinning debut novel Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings Tina Makereti confronts the complexities of cultural heritage, the past and the present, and Moriori, Maori and Pakeha identity. The novel i...
4 Aug 202046min
My Life With Flying Nun
Roger Shepherd, the founder of iconic Kiwi independent record label Flying Nun, joins lifelong music fan, journalist and TV personality John Campbell to share the story of his life with the independen...
30 Jul 202054min
Worlds Coming Together in Aotearoa
Dame Anne Salmond and Moana Maniapoto take to the Going West stage for a kōrero on Salmond’s landmark publication Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds. They discuss the convergence of Te Ao Māori...
28 Jul 202057min
Phillip Mann and Ecological Sci Fi
Science fiction writer Phillip Mann, in conversation with journalist and sci fi fan David Larsen, discusses his writing process, the influence of the New Zealand landscape on his work, and the story o...
23 Jul 202057min
What Lies Beneath: Memoir and Memory
In her striking work of creative nonfiction What Lies Beneath, novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter and playwright Elspeth Sandys shares her voyage into memoir and its complex relationship with ...
21 Jul 202023min
