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The Featherston Booktown Podcast
The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival is where we celebrate books, storytelling and ideas, and the artefact and craft of the book.
Join NZ Herald Columnist Shane Te Pou and Booktown volunteer Phil Quin for a series of enlightening and entertaining discussions with some of the featured guests from the Festival.
The Festival takes place from 10 -12 May 2024 in Featherston, Aotearoa - New Zealand.
Episodes
28 episodes
Pioneers of Hop & Grain: From Speight’s to Parrotdog and Beyond
New 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 an...
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The Dilemma of a Bibliophile
Book 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,...
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The New Zealand Wars
It 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 ...
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Author Spotlight: Carl Hayman
What 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? ...
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Author Spotlight: The Secret Life Of Steve Braunias
Steve 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 ...
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On the Couch: Tāme Iti
Tāme 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 M...
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Women On A Mission: Linda Clark and Moana Maniapoto
Linda 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 ...
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Pasifika Power 2024
Be 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 readi...
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1:18:34
Word Gets Around: Songwriting With Delaney Davidson & Barry Saunders
Delaney 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,” s...
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Te Tiriti o Waitangi: What Tangata Whenua Say
Te 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 Kahung...
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1:25:07
The Crewe Murders
The 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...
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57:19
The Magic of Mushrooms
Liv 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. ...
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On the Couch: Gregory O'Brien
If 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 B...
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57:30
Where'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 Māo...
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1:26:41
Episode 14: Warren Maxwell
This 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-instrumen...
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Episode 13: Kirsty Johnston
The 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 ...
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Episode 12: Dame Susan Devoy
Dame 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 ...
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Episode 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 confrontin...
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Episode 10: More Than a Magpie - The Novels of Catherine Chidgey
Catherine 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 Oc...
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Episode 9: Pasifika Power
Pasifika 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...
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56:38
Episode 8: Invasion and Resistance: Facing up to Parihaka
November 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 w...
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Episode 7: Late Night Lit - Poet's Corner
Late 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 c...
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Episode 6: Andrea Vance
In 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...
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