Books on Radio NZ National: 23-29 July 2011

21 Jul 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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Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
Saturday, 23 July 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 Last Party
by John Harris
HarperPerennial
9780007134731

So Now Who Do We Vote For
by John Harris
Faber and Faber
9780571224227

May be mentioned in passing during interview on British politics

Nim Chimpsky: the Chimp Who Would Be Human
by Elizabeth Hess
Random House
ISBN: 9780553382778

Source material for the documentary, Project Nim, whose director, James Marsh is the interview subject
 
The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
by Paul Theroux
Penguin
ISBN: 9780241144640

Subject of interview; some other books from his extensive bibliography get a mention: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Dark Star Safari (2002), Ghost Train to the Western Star (2008).
New Zealand by Design: a History of New Zealand Product Design
by Michael Smythe
Godwit
ISBN: 9781869795740

Subject of interview

The Arts on Sunday with Lynn Freeman
Sunday 24 July 2011

Thicket                                                           
by Anna Jackson   
Auckland University Press
9781869404826
 

This City
by Jennifer Compton
Otago University Press
9781877578106
 

Radio NZ National Book Readings
23-29 July 2011

NINE TO NOON 10.45am    

Monday 25 July – Friday 29 July

Spider  – Eps 6-10 (of 10)
by William Taylor
Read by Jamie McCaskill
Longacre Press
ISBN 1877135607


AFTERNOONS 2.30pm

Monday 25 July – Friday 29 July

Where Underpants Come From – Joe Bennett – Eps 1-5 (of 12)
Read by Joe Bennett
Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books
ISBN No. 9781847390011

Tuesday 12 July 11.30pm

Weed 
by Anthony McCarten – Eps 3 (of 4)
Read by Grant Tilly and Michael Haigh
(Radio New Zealand)

ALL NIGHT PROGRAMME 3.05am

Saturday 23 July – Sunday 24 July

My Beautiful Balloon
by Carl Nixon – Eps 1-2 (of 2)
Read by Nick Blake
(Radio New Zealand)


Monday 25 July – Friday 29 July

The Blue
by Mary McCallum – Eps 1-5 (of 15)
Read by Denise O’Connell, Tim Gordon and Judith Gibson
Penguin Books (N.Z.)
ISBN No. 9781877361999

Sunday 24 July 3.04pm

The Secrets I Keep 
by Georgina Scull
Read by Dame Kate Harcourt, Grant Tilly and Aaron Alexander
(Radio New Zealand)

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

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