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Lilburn Lecture 2023: Unknown Country: Listening for the Sound of Aotearoa New Zealand - Nick Bollinger
Award-winning writer, musician, and broadcaster Nick Bollinger delves into diverse corners of Aotearoa's musical past and present to investigate what it is that differentiates New Zealand pop music… Video, Audio
This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions.
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Bilingual book takes top honours at Children's Book Awards
A bilingual book about the Māori creation story has won the highest accolade in children's literature.
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Bishop's winning move: Author takes children's book prize - again
The author of a book described as a taonga for this generation and the next has taken out the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award for the fifth time.
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Shaun Barnett Across the Pass
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Epic Kiwi tramping tales told in new book Across the Pass
Shaun Barnett is an outdoors author, editor and photographer who began tramping as a teenager in the mountains of Hawke's Bay - and has tramped the length and breadth of the country since. He's… Audio, Gallery
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New Year's Honours 2021 list announced
The New Year Honours 2021 list has been announced today, and it includes celebrated singer-songwriter Dave Dobbyn and one of the country's leading epidemiologists, Professor Michael Baker.
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Pacific author wins supreme NZ children's book prize
The Samoan New Zealand writer and former poet-laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh is the supreme winner of the 2020 New Zealand children's book awards.
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NZ Book Awards winner making art accessible for young readers
Sarah Pepperle's book Art-tastic won the Elsie Locke award for non-fiction AND best first book at the New Zealand Book Awards last night. Video, Audio
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'Masterful' book takes top honour in children's book awards
The non-fiction book, Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story, has taken out the top honour at the Children and Young Adult book awards.
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A history of contraception in good ol’ Aotearoa
Be glad that birth control has moved on from the 1870s.
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Barbara Brookes: a history of New Zealand women
Guest host Philippa Tolley interviews Barbara Brookes, Professor of History at the University of Otago, about her new book A History of New Zealand Women. Audio
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Communists in Caves
Times were tough for the New Zealand Communist Party at the start of the Second World War. They opposed the fight against Adolf Hitler and as a result, their newspaper, People's Voice, was suppressed… Audio
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Our Big Blue Backyard - New Zealand's marine reserves
Our Big Blue Backyard is the title of the latest book from Taranaki-based natural history writer, academic and graphic designer, Janet Hunt. She has previously won awards for her adult and children's… Audio
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Our Big Blue Backyard
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The Vault - Avon Loop
Audio 14 Mar 2013Conversations between one-time residents of an historic riverside community - in the 1970s the late Elsie Locke and Rod Donald helped to create one of Christchurch's strongest riverside communities… Audio
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Barbara Else wins junior fiction award
The Esther Glen award for junior fiction at the Library and Information Association's Children's Book Awards has been won by the Wellington writer Barbara Else.
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Jessie James and the Outlaws
Audio 6 Nov 2010Jessie James and The Outlaws' debut album is 'The Price Of Gum'. The title is a reference to the hidden costs of the things we consume. Political messages abound in the songwriting of Jessie Moss… Audio
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Book review - Looking for Answers a Life of Elsie Locke
Audio 2 Oct 2009Alison Laurie reviews 'Looking for Answers: A Life of Elsie Locke' by Maureen Birchfield. Published by Canterbury University Press. Audio
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Maureen Birchfield
Audio 20 Sep 2009Looks at the life of the great reformer and activist, Elsie Locke. Audio