Writers and Readers Festivals Podcast Options

9:05 AM.American surgeon and writer, whose new book is Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End. Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Dirty tricks - power, politics and vasts amounts of money. Britain's phone-hacking scandal has made for a compelling story. In fact, George Clooney has just announced he's making a movie about it… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Australian author, screenwriter and journalist known for her novels and non-fiction works, the latest of which is This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial. Read more Audio

4:06 PM.Military historian Christopher Pugsley talks with John McCrystal about his career, the business of writing about the First World War, and it contemporary resonances. Read more Audio

4:06 PM.Military historian Christopher Pugsley talks with John McCrystal about his career, the business of writing about the First World War, and it contemporary resonances. Read more Audio

4:06 PM.The eminent historian Professor Margaret MacMillan explores the origins of the First World War, and the contemporary parallels to what happened a century ago. With Kate Hunter in the chair, this… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.In a very wide-ranging conversation Diarmaid MacCulloch talks with Peter Biggs about religious belief in the modern world. As well as authoring a number of award-winning books- including Reformation… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.British science writer, whose work appears in Nature, New Scientist and Prospect, among others. His most recent book is Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler, and he… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Just what is it about Sweden and crime writing? One person who is a star in the genre is Camilla Läckberg. She has sold more than 10 million books in 55 countries, outselling even Steig Larson of the… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Author, playwright and broadcaster who is a regular panelist on the quiz programme QI, and is a guest of the Auckland Writers Festival. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Sydney based NZ choreographer and film maker presenting 'White Cloud' in collaboration with musician Tim Finn and playwright Tim Duncum. Audio

10:06 AM.French writer and poet Jacques Roubaud is described as a senior statesman of European literature and world poetry. His latest translated book, Mathematics, pays homage to one of the great passions of… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Award winning British author featuring at the Auckland Writers Festival. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.'Trainspotting' author Irvine Welsh on his latest book 'The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins', and the challenges of adapting the page to the big screen. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Wellington based author featured New Zealand author at the Auckland Writers Festival. Read more Audio

2:40 PM.The first University of Otago Scottish Writers Fellow combines her love of music with her desire to write.

Janice Galloway has collaborated with opera companies and artists, and written a much loved… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Adam Johnson's 2013 Pullitzer Prize winning novel, The Orphan Master's Son, follows the story of a boy who is trained to be an assassin and a spy for North Korea. The California writer says when he… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Jang Jin-sung defected after having served as a counter-intelligence officer, and poet laureate, for North Korea's former dictator Kim Jong-il. Read more Audio

10:09 AM.Inua Ellams is a word and graphic artist born in Plateau State, Nigeria. He is a writer with a style influenced as much by classic literature as it is by hip hop, by John Keats as it is by MosDef… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Alice Springs-based painter and photographer who has written two memoirs, The Hard Light of Day, and One Thousand Cuts: Life and Art in Central Australia. Read more Audio

10:15 AM.American entrepeneur Jessica Jackley on how financial inclusion and the sharing economy can combat poverty in developing countries. Jessica Jackley is a guest at the Auckland Writers Festival this… Read more Audio

11:13 AM.The author of the Samuel Johnson prize winning book 'Mao's Great Famine', Frank Dikotter has followed up with 'The Tragedy of Liberation - A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945 - 1957'. He is in… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Author of Clara, a novel about composer Clara Schumann. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.American author (The Color Purple) and activist who will visit New Zealand in May for the Auckland Writers Festival. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig whose work depicts the fragility and follies of the human condition - and our relationship with the natural world. His latest book The Essential Leunig: Cartoons… Read more Audio