Friday, June 26, 2009

ARTS ON SUNDAY - RADIO NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL

Items this coming Sunday of particular interest to booklovers:

1:50pm New Zealand Poet Laureate
Lucy Orbell looks at the role and importance of the New Zealand Poet Laureate, which is about to change hands.

2:25pm Censorship
In some ways we are a permissive society and in others, deeply conservative, when it comes to what we read and watch. Chief Censor Bill Hastings, John McIntyre from the Children’s Bookshop in Wellington and Professor Mark Williams from the University of Victoria.


2:30pm Chapter and Verse
Poet Alison Wong discusses her first novel, As The Earth Turns Silver, published here (by Penguin), and overseas.

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