Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Monday, June 15, 2015
Nine to Noon - Scheduled interviews and reviews for this week
Young Carers: 40 thousand 18 to 24 year olds identify as carers, and provide significant support for someone with a disability, health or age related condition condition, injury or addiction. Lauren Donnan of Auckland University has been researching the area, and says the carers face many difficulties and need more support.
Update on the Turkish Election.
How successful has DOC's massive 1080 drop been? In what it has called The Battle for Our Birds, the Department of Conservation has done aerial drops of 1080 across hundreds of thousands of hectares of beech forest.
Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney
10-11am
HUHA founder, Carolyn Press-McKenzie, who has rescued animals of almost every kind.
Pig in a Day: Anna Mahy from the Preserved Cook School has a passion for swine, and runs Pig in a Day workshops to teach the traditional methods of preparing it. .
Urbanist Tommy Honey: Art galleries, councils, heritage and identity – who gets to decide?
Tuesday 16 June
9-10am
News and current affairs
Social Bonds - can private investment in welfare work? Paul Riley is the executive director of Key Assets UK - part of a global company which specialises in placing foster children in homes and other social and family services.
US correspondent Susan Milligan
10-11am
Alvin Roth, Nobel Prize for Economics winner on his new book "Who Gets What and Why"
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary And Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
Editor and sole reporter of the Northland Age, Peter Jackson. He was named Editorial Writer of the Year at the recent Canon Media Awards, beating out editors of the big metropolitan newspapers.
Media Commentator Gavin Ellis
Wednesday 17 June
9-10am
News and current affairs
John Bohannon: The scientist who fooled the media into running stories that chocolate helps weight loss. How did he do it, and why was his bogus science was so easily swallowed?
Australia correspondent Peter Munro
10-11am
John Foreman, the founder and Executive Director of NZ Rare Disorders Organisation. He is stepping down after 14 yrs.
Lawrence Wright, whose book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief has been made into a documentary which will screen at the New Zealand Film Festival
John Rowland, the father of Harriet Rowland whose book, The Book of Hat is a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, up against four books written by adults. It was written during Harriet's two year battle with terminal bone cancer.
Film reviewer, Dan Slevin
Friday 19 June
9-10am
News and Current Affairs
Robin Chase on her book Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism.
Pacific news with Mike Field
10-11am.
Author of the Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin on establishing daily habits to improve health and contentment
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