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Colonisation and Decolonisation: Facing Them Head On
Mar 5, 2026
1h 28m 20s
Ko Aotearoa Tēnei: How Will The Justice System Make Use Of Tikanga Māori?
Feb 18, 2026
1h 32m 33s
Invasion! The Waikato War: The Featherston Booktown NZ War History series
Feb 4, 2026
1h 35m 19s
Norwegian Wood: Lars Mytting Talks Wood Chopping, Stacking and Drying
Jan 21, 2026
59m 30s
Ali Mau: No Words For This
Jan 6, 2026
1h 01m 45s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3/5/26 | ![]() Colonisation and Decolonisation: Facing Them Head On✨ | decolonisationcolonisation+3 | Paora AmmunsonTῑhema Baker | Imagining Decolonisation | New ZealandPapawai Marae+7 | decolonisationcolonisation+5 | — | 1h 28m 20s | |
| 2/18/26 | ![]() Ko Aotearoa Tēnei: How Will The Justice System Make Use Of Tikanga Māori?✨ | justice systemtikanga Māori+4 | Tā Edward Taihakurei DurieAnnette Sykes+2 | — | — | tikanga Māorijustice system+5 | — | 1h 32m 33s | |
| 2/4/26 | ![]() Invasion! The Waikato War: The Featherston Booktown NZ War History series✨ | Waikato WarNew Zealand history+3 | Tom RoaJoanna Kidman | — | Waikato | Waikato WarVincent O’Malley+5 | — | 1h 35m 19s | |
| 1/21/26 | ![]() Norwegian Wood: Lars Mytting Talks Wood Chopping, Stacking and Drying✨ | wood choppingfirewood preparation+3 | Lars Mytting | Nordic Council of MinistersAuckland Write+1 | — | Lars MyttingNorwegian Wood+5 | — | 59m 30s | |
| 1/6/26 | ![]() Ali Mau: No Words For This✨ | memoirjournalism+3 | Ali Mau | No Words for This | The Royal Hotel | Ali Maumemoir+5 | Hedley’s Books | 1h 01m 45s | |
| 12/18/25 | ![]() Booktown | Bookten Gala Night: Ten Out of Ten✨ | literary talentgala night+4 | Noelle McCarthyChris Tse+5 | Featherston Booktown | — | Featherston Booktowngala night+5 | — | 1h 40m 35s | |
| 11/19/25 | ![]() Fixing The Bear Pit: How To Make Parliament A More Humane And Positive Place✨ | Parliamentpolitics+4 | Kiri AllanMarilyn Waring+2 | Featherston Booktown Trust | Parliament | Parliamentpolitics+6 | — | 1h 00m 49s | |
| 11/6/25 | ![]() Rogernomics: 40 Years On Through The Lens Of A Wairarapa Community✨ | economic reformsWairarapa community+3 | Liz MellishBob Francis | Fourth Labour Government | Wairarapa | RogernomicsWairarapa+7 | — | 1h 01m 27s | |
| 10/22/25 | ![]() The Pluck of the Irish✨ | Irish literatureNobel Laureates+3 | John ConnellNoelle M | Granard Booktown Festival | Ireland | Irelandliterary powerhouse+4 | — | 59m 30s | |
| 10/8/25 | ![]() Yeah, It’s All Good: Men Keeping Themselves Well✨ | masculinitymental health+3 | Matt HeathPaddy Gower+2 | Federated Farmers | — | men's healthrural men+3 | — | 56m 54s | |
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| 9/24/25 | ![]() Westport Wāhine: Becky and Mel | When singer Mel Parsons and author Becky Manawatu exploded onto the Aotearoa arts scene, there was nowhere more proud than Westport. Mel and Becky grew up in and around Westport and were in the same year at Buller High School. Both of them have recently launched exciting new work: Sabotage and Kataraina. Anika Moa (Ngāpuhi, Te Aupōuri) asked two of Aotearoa’s best how much they inspire each other and what it is in the Westport water. Recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival on ... | 54m 21s | ||||||
| 9/10/25 | ![]() On the Couch: Lars Mytting - His life and work | Lars Mytting is a writing phenomenon. He’s one of Norway’s most acclaimed writers, with more than two million books sold, and available in 24 languages. On publication, his fiction ignites a global reading frenzy, but Lars’ first success was Norwegian Wood, written about ‘chopping, stacking and drying wood in the Scandinavian way’. Lars spoke to New Zealand novelist Cristina Sanders, a descendant of Norwegian settlers. Recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival on 10th May 2025. ... | 58m 12s | ||||||
| 8/28/25 | ![]() Swimming Upstream: The Rise Of Sri Lankan Writing In Aotearoa | Saraid de Silva’s bestselling Amma, longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize, is one of a stream of successes for Sri Lankan New Zealand authors: romesh dissanayake launched a novel and a poetry collection in 2024, and Brannavan Gnanalingam launched The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat, following his Ockham-shortlisted Sodden Downstream and Ngaio Marsh winner Sprigs. Dinithi Bowatte asked what success means and how the writers got there. Recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karuka... | 1h 03m 35s | ||||||
| 8/19/25 | ![]() The Way of Waiata | Waiata are more than songs; they are a way of preserving history, culture and language by passing them down through generations. Waiata Māori connect people to whenua, whakapapa and whānau. Join a waiata kōrero with our panel of experts: Ria Hall (Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui), Anika Moa (Ngāpuhi,Te Aupōuri) and Warren Maxwell (Tūhoe, Kahungunu, Ngāi Te Rangi and Scotland). Recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival on 10th May 2025. https://www.booktown.org.... | 1h 01m 27s | ||||||
| 8/8/25 | ![]() Design A Vagina: Memoir #2 From Ruth Shaw | Ruth Shaw is on a mission to help rural women sort their prolapses, a common, disruptive and often embarrassing condition that can be prevented with the right treatment. She writes about it in part two of her provocative and funny memoir Three Wee Bookshops at the End of the World, which launched at Featherston Booktown. Ruth was in conversation with Kristy McGregor, editor of Shepherdess magazine. This episode was recorded live at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea festival on 10th May 2025.... | 53m 31s | ||||||
| 3/11/25 | ![]() Pioneers of Hop & Grain: From Speight’s to Parrotdog and Beyond | New Zealand has had a long and storied love affair with beer, the world’s oldest drink. In Continuous Ferment, Greg Ryan charts that story – why we love it, why we love so much of it and how our tastes have changed. He talked with journalist and beer lover Denise Garland about a history “of rogues and inventors, big business power and small business determination, national debate and social upheaval." This episode was recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival in May 2024. https:... | 54m 09s | ||||||
| 2/25/25 | ![]() The Dilemma of a Bibliophile | Book collecting is variously described as a passion, an obsession and even a disease. Bookselling the same. Bookseller Ruth Shaw (Bookshop Dogs) and book collector Tony Eyre (The Book Collector) talked about the affliction/gift of bibliophilia, where it’s taken them in their lives and the dilemma of where to put all the books. Fellow bibliophile and Masterton bookseller David Hedley was in the chair. This episode was recorded at the 2024 Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival. https://www.bo... | 55m 11s | ||||||
| 2/11/25 | ![]() The New Zealand Wars | It has been said the New Zealand Wars were more significant in shaping our country than Te Tiriti o Waitangi. This session explores whether that is true and digs deeper into a troubled time in our history. With sociology academic Joanna Kidman (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa), historians and authors Chris Pugsley and Vincent O’Malley, former director of the Waitangi Tribunal Buddy Mikaere (Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāti Ranginui) and author of Patu, Gavin Bishop (Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Mahuta, ... | 1h 31m 14s | ||||||
| 1/28/25 | ![]() Author Spotlight: Carl Hayman | What does it mean to be a modern All Black, expected to perform at a mental and physical peak when player body mass has increased by 30% since the 1960s and new research is showing the horrifying impact of head injuries on rugby player brains? All Black 1000, Carl Hayman, wrote Head On after discovering his injuries had led to early-onset dementia. He joined his co-author Dylan Cleaver to talk about the new realities of the sport we love. This episode was recorded at the 2024 Featherston Boo... | 1h 03m 02s | ||||||
| 1/14/25 | ![]() Author Spotlight: The Secret Life Of Steve Braunias | Steve Braunias is an author, columnist, journalist and literary editor of Newsroom. He is also one of the country’s leading writers of satire and his 2021 book Missing Persons won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Non-Fiction. Linda Clark drilled down into what makes the Tauranga-born writer tick, including the feeling behind the writing of his latest book that he was a missing person himself. https://www.booktown.org.nz/ | 58m 44s | ||||||
| 12/12/24 | ![]() On the Couch: Tāme Iti | Tāme Iti (Ngāi Tūhoe, Waikato, Te Arawa) is known as many things – activist, artist, actor, author, terrorist and cyclist. He rose to prominence as a member of the protest group Ngā Tamatoa more than 40 years ago, becoming a key figure in the Māori protest movement and cultural renaissance. Community advocate and social change activist Denis O’Reilly was in conversation with one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most captivating and controversial figures. https://www.booktown.org.nz/ | 56m 16s | ||||||
| 11/24/24 | ![]() Women On A Mission: Linda Clark and Moana Maniapoto | Linda Clark and Moana Maniapoto are huge admirers of each other’s work. Fan girls, even. Moana is a musician, activist and journalist, and Linda is a lawyer, writer, and former broadcaster. In a delightful kōrero of the heart and mind, the two women interviewed each other about the various strands that make up their lives and how they weave them into their own kete to carry the gifts of the world and make change where they can. This episode was recorded at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea ... | 1h 03m 38s | ||||||
| 11/8/24 | ![]() Pasifika Power 2024 | Be thrilled and amazed by spoken word poetry created by Pasifika rangatahi at a three-day Young Readers Programme workshop and brought to the public for the first time. Poet Nafanua Kersel hosted the event, which also included more poetry readings and a panel talanoa about the life and dreams of the South Auckland Poets’ Collective with co-founders Grace Teuila Taylor, Ramon Narayan, Daren “dk” Kamali, and was moderated by Ole Maiava. This episode was recorded at the Featherston Booktown Kar... | 1h 18m 34s | ||||||
| 10/23/24 | ![]() Word Gets Around: Songwriting With Delaney Davidson & Barry Saunders | Delaney Davidson and Barry Saunders are storytellers who use music as their medium, and coming together as collaborators has taken them in new and exciting directions. “These songs just started appearing out of the kitchen air,” said Davidson, “and we were grabbing them as fast as we could.” They talked with Lucy Cooper at the Karukatea Festival in May 2024 about “the strange territory” they share making music together. https://www.booktown.org.nz/ | 59m 24s | ||||||
| 10/8/24 | ![]() Te Tiriti o Waitangi: What Tangata Whenua Say | Te Tiriti o Waitangi remains as important today as it did when it was first signed 184 years ago, but how can Aotearoa honour it, what are the key challenges and where do tangata whenua stand? Papawai Marae kaumātua Paora Ammunson (Ngāti Kahungunu/Rangitāne) welcomed the Featherston Booktown audience and Tāme Iti (Ngāi Tūhoe, Waikato, Te Arawa), Moana Maniapoto (Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) and Te Maire Tau (Ngāi Tahu) shared their views on the Treaty today, as moderated by Shane Te Pou (Ngāi ... | 1h 25m 07s | ||||||
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