Podcasts & Audio
Some book-focused podcasts (and other events) from Aotearoa
The Auckland Writers Festival site houses podcasts/video including most recently the 2020 Winter Series of 13 events featuring both New Zealand and international authors being interviewed by Paula Morris.
Podcast hosted by authors Stacy Gregg and Nicky Pellegrino interviewing New Zealand authors (2020) and hosted on NewsRoom/ReadingRoom.
Presented by Alison Fitzpatrick, Ineka Vogels and Karen Craig - three serious and not-so-serious librarians from Auckland Libraries explore the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, news and reviews, poetry and gems from the Central Library basement and Special Collections. There are Book Club briefs with tips and connections.
Going West Writers Festival Audio
Going West has dived through its archives to bring you the best of Going West: 25 years of oratory, discourse and performance. New content posted regularly.
The NZ Society of Authors houses a number of podcast series on its website:
NZSA Oral History Series (4 series of interviews with renowned NZ authors, e.g. Owen Marshall, Chris Else, Joy Cowley, Tessa Duder, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Elsie Locke, Ian Cross, Dame Christine Cole Catley, Karl Stead, Kevin Ireland, Dame Fiona Kidman, etc.)
NZSA Live! Series: content from the National Writers Forum and the Janet Frame Memorial Lectures.
PEN Podcast series by Dana Wensley from Fresh FM.
Bi-monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass, housed by The Spinoff.
Booksellers New Zealand provides upcoming reviews, and weekly listings of readings, reviews and drama on Radio New Zealand programmes, Nine to Noon, Saturday with Kim Hill and Standing Room Only with Lynn Freeman.
Radio New Zealand Book Reviews and Interviews - a wide range of both local and international authors and books feature regularly on Radio New Zealand.
Literary Lectures – a series of reflections by leading authors on the state of writing in Aotearoa (i.e. the READ NZ (was NZ Book Council) Lecture).
2017 Pantograph Punch series, storytelling with a live audience.
A variety of VERB events including Politics in Pubs (2020, in partnership with The Spinoff), a series conceived live which has moved online.
Recordings of some of the best WORD Christchurch events available online.
WOMAD NZ presents an online programme featuring some of New Zealand’s most diverse voices, including authors, comedians, musicians and poets.