Episodes

  • Guadalupe Nettel on human nature in fiction
    Jul 27 2025

    Georgina Godwin speaks to Guadalupe Nettel about her award-winning writing, life between Mexico and France, partial blindness and how human and animal behaviour inspires the themes in her latest work, ‘The Accidentals’.

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    28 mins
  • C K Stead at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival
    Jul 23 2025

    New Zealand literary giant C K Stead joins Georgina Godwin to discuss aging, mortality and his early fascination with poetry. He also reflects on his influential role in shaping New Zealand’s literature.

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    30 mins
  • Karim Kattan on writing between languages and landscapes
    Jul 20 2025

    Karim Kattan joins Georgina Godwin to discuss his upbringing in Bethlehem, putting Palestine in his own words and writing ‘The Palace on the Higher Hill’.

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    27 mins
  • Michael and Matariki Bennett at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival
    Jul 16 2025

    Georgina Godwin speaks with Michael and Matariki Bennett, co-curators of the Auckland Writers Festival, about their Māori heritage, the kōhanga reo movement and addressing sociopolitical issues through art.

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    28 mins
  • Damian Le Bas on writing between worlds
    Jul 13 2025

    Damian Le Bas joins Georgina Godwin to discuss his latest work, ‘The Drowned Places’, which delves into the myth of Atlantis and the sunken worlds beneath the ocean’s surface.

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    37 mins
  • Agustina Bazterrica at Hay Festival 2025
    Jul 9 2025

    Georgina Godwin speaks to Argentine author Agustina Bazterrica about her shift from opera to writing, literary influences and her novels exploring oppression, capitalism and control.

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    23 mins
  • Esther Freud on family, fiction and healing
    Jul 6 2025

    Esther Freud reflects on her childhood and literary journey to ‘My Sister and Other Lovers’, which follows two sisters facing secrets and heartbreak.

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    33 mins