Books on Radio NZ National 17-24 June 2011

Radio New Zealand National features several books over the course of a week. These listings are for books that will be featured on the following programmes...

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The Children's Book Review (Nine to Noon)
Friday, 17 June 2011Anchor

John McIntyre from The Children's Bookshop (Kilbirnie) will review the following books this week:

Mending Lucille          
J.R. Poulter & Sarah Davis            
Lothian          
ISBN   9780733625220
 

The Important Things 
Peter Carnavas              
New Frontier Publishing     
ISBN 9781921042287

The Bear and The Wildcat               
Kazumi Yumoto illustrated by Komako Sakai                        
Gecko Press   
ISBN 9781877467707

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
Saturday, 18 June 2011Anchor

Booksellers New Zealand has been advised that the following books will be mentioned on Radio New Zealand National’s Saturday Morning with Kim Hill programme this weekend.

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley
HarperCollins
ISBN 9780007267125
Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
John Murray
ISBN: 9780719568978

River of Smoke
by Amitav Ghosh
John Murray
ISBN: 9780719568992

The first two books in his planned Ibis Trilogy.

The Arts on Sunday with Lynn Freeman
Sunday 19 June 2011

There will be no books this week because The Arts on Sunday is doing a tenth-anniversary special.

Scarlet
Leigh Marsden
Random House
9780143565444                                                

The Hill of Wool
Jenny Bornholdt
Victoria University Press
ISBN 9780864736529
 

Radio NZ National Book Readings
18-24 June 2011

NINE TO NOON 10.45am      

Monday 20 June – Friday 24 June

Dead People’s Music
Sarah Laing – Eps 1-5 (of 15)
Read by Sophia and Elizabeth Hawthorne
Vintage
Random House
ISBN No. 9781869797

AFTERNOONS 2.30 PM

Monday 20 June – Friday 24 June

Wrestling With God 
Lloyd Geering – Eps 1-5 (of 12)
Read by Lloyd Geering
Bridget Williams Books in association with Craig Potton Publishing
ISBN No. 9781845400774

ALL NIGHT PROGRAMME 3.05am

Saturday 18 June

Sanctuary 1:  The Day The Soldiers Came – Elspeth Sandys
Read by Doris Niyonsaba
(Radio New Zealand)


Sunday 19 June

Sanctuary 2:  Escaping The Taliban – Elspeth Sandys
Read by Julian Wilson and Gavin Rutherford
(Radio New Zealand)

Monday 20 June

Sanctuary 3: Tampa Rescue – Elspeth Sandys
Read by Julian Wilson and Gavin Rutherford
(Radio New Zealand)


Tuesday 21 June

Sanctuary 4: Escape From Iran – Elspeth Sandys
Read by Farahmand Kamali and Nick Blake
(Radio New Zealand)

Wednesday 22 June

Sanctuary 5: Slow Road From Myanmar – Elspeth Sandys
Read by Hser Naymoo and Judith Gibson
(Radio New Zealand)


Thursday 23 June

At The Compassionate Restaurant – Elizabeth Smither
Read by Susan Curnow
(Radio New Zealand)


Friday 24 June

Noodles and Potatoes
by Elizabeth Smither
Read by Fiona Truelove
Cape Catley Ltd
ISBN No. 9781877340130

Sunday 19 June 3.04pm

Severed Threads – If Thy Hand Offend Thee
- John Dryden - Eps 2 (of 3)
(BBC)

Read the schedule for Nine to Noon's The Book Review

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