Brian Turner
Anthony RITCHIE: Timeless Land
Deborah Wai Kapohe (soprano), Owen Marshall (writer), Brian Turner (poet), Southern Sinfonia, Kenneth Young (conductor). Recorded by RNZ Concert, 6 February 2004 Audio
Sir Colin Meads - a good keen man
Poet Brian Turner discusses the embodiment of the New Zealand male in the late rugby great Sir Colin Meads. Audio
Gregory O'Brien
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien is the author of a number of books. His latest (with Nick Bevin) is Futuna: Life of a Building (VUP). He talks with Kim about the demise of the… Audio
A Circle of Laureates
New Zealand Poet Laureate CK Stead and his predecessors Jenny Bornholdt, Michele Leggott, Bill Manhire, Cilla McQueen, Vincent O’Sullivan, Elizabeth Smither, Brian Turner and Ian Wedde share their… Audio
Brian Turner - poet, writer and professor
Brian Turner returns with a memoir called My Life as a Foreign Country. It places the reader on the streets of Mosul or in the suburbs of the USA trying to cope with war's effects. Audio
US poet Brian Turner
Brian Turner served time on the front line in Iraq and Bosnia. He shares his stories and poems about modern wartime. Audio
WFMU - Brian Turner
Brian Turner, music director of the USA's longest running free format radio station, New Jersey's WFMU, talks with Emma Smith on how playing scratchy 78s, celtic mouth music and otherwise unheard… Audio
Brian Turner - Spirit of the Land
New Zealand writer and poet Brian Turner talks about what makes his spirit soar, and reads some of his poems for us. Audio
Eight Months to Mars - Brian Turner
A celebrated chronicler not of millennia but of life in the here and the now, seen in hawks and hares and skies and rivers and grasses and rocks - poet Brian Turner's new collection of Central Otago… Audio
Playing Favourites with Brian Turner
Central Otago poet who has collected more than 100 poems from over 30 years of writing for his new illustrated collection, Elemental: Central Otago Poems. Audio
Meridian ditches plan to build $2bn Project Hayes windfarm
The state-owned power company has spent $8.9-million trying to build the Project Hayes windfarm on the Lammermoor Range and says it can no longer justify a protracted fight in the environment court. Audio
Into the Wider World by Brian Turner - Part 10
Brian's commentary on the state of his horrible feet. Audio
Into the Wider World by Brian Turner - Part 9
The redoubtable Kevin Ireland, trout fisher and raconteur, who has been invited down south to be shown the ropes by Brian and friends. Audio
Into the Wider World by Brian Turner - Part 8
Brian Turner and some friends have braved the swollen Haast River to reach The Thomas River but what should have been a wonderful adventure has begun to show signs of being memorable for all the wrong… Audio
Into the Wider World by Brian Turner - Part 7
Brian Turner agrees to accompany some friends on an excursion across the Haast to the Thomas River in the wilds of the far south. The first day goes well but then things begin to turn. Audio
Into the Wider World by Brian Turner - Part 6
An account of a less than comfortable camping trip to Poison Bay in Fiordland. Audio
Into the Wider World by Brian Turner - Part 5
Hang on tight as fortunes rise and fall like the wind and waves on a hairy trip with Brian and some friends out on the lake in his intrepid outboard, The Savage. Audio
Into the Wider World by Brian Turner - Part 4
We accompany the Brian Turner and his friend Dave Witherow on a none too successful fishing trip where Dave takes on a trout bare handed. Audio
Into the Wider World by Brian Turner - Part 3
The astonishing, unique and sometimes plainly dangerous Uncle Jack who was to become a huge influence on the young Brian Turner. Audio
Into the Wider World by Brian Turner - Part 2
Turner's excursion with two friends into the wilderness of Northern Fiordland to retrace the almost fatal footsteps of two early pioneering gold prospectors. Audio