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Kate's Klassics
Conversations on classic literature with poet Kate Camp and Kim Hill
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Kate's Klassic: A Question of Upbringing
Kate Camp is a published poet, and will discuss the 1951 novel A Question of Upbringing, the first volume of A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: Passport to Hell
Wellington poet discussing the 1936 novel Passport to Hell by Robyn Hyde, republished this year by Auckland University Press in an edition that includes Hyde's final authorised text from 1937. Audio
- Kate's Klassic: Oliver Twist
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Kate's Klassic: Beowulf
9 Feb 2008Kate Camp discusses the translation by Seamus Heaney of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: All Quiet on the Western Front
8 Mar 2008Kate Camp discusses All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: Catch 22
5 Apr 2008Kate Camp discusses the acclaimed anti-war novel Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: Doctor Zhivago
3 May 2008Kate Camp discusses Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Audio
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Kate's Klassic: Mrs Dalloway
31 May 2008Kate Camp discusses the novel of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: Dracula
Kate Camp discusses the 1897 novel Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker, which served to popularise the idea of the vampire. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: The Day of the Triffids
26 Jul 2008Kate Camp discusses John Wyndham's 1951 post-apocalyptic novel, The Day of the Triffids. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: The Trial
23 Aug 2008Kate Camp discusses Franz Kafka's 1925 novel, The Trial. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
20 Sep 2008Kate Camp will discuss the 1961 novella The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: The Count of Monte Cristo
18 Oct 2008Kate Camp discusses the 1840s novel, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: Call of the Wild
15 Nov 2008Kate Camp discusses The Call of the Wild by Jack London, which was first serialised in the Saturday Evening Post in 1903. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
13 Dec 2008Kate Camp discusses Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: Rabbit, Run
14 Feb 2009Kate Camp discusses the 1960 novel Rabbit, Run by American author John Updike. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: The French Lieutenant's Woman
28 Mar 2009Kate Camp discusses the 1969 novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: Notre Dame de Paris
25 Apr 2009Kate Camp discusses the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame). Audio
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Kate's Klassic: On The Road
20 Jun 2009Kate Camp will discuss the largely autobiographical novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: Interpretation of dreams
Kate Camp will discuss the 1899 book The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: An Angel at My Table
29 Aug 2009Kate Camp discusses Janet Frame's three volumes of autobiography, posthumously reprinted in 2008 as An Angel at My Table. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: Inferno
10 Oct 2009Kate Camp will discuss Inferno by Dante Alighieri, the first part of his epic poem The Divine Comedy. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: The Big Sleep
12 Dec 2009Kate Camp discusses The Big Sleep, the 1939 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: Franny and Zooey
20 Feb 2010Kate Camp discusses Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, originally published as short stories in The New Yorker, then as a collated book. Audio
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Kate's Klassic: The Aeneid
27 Mar 2010Kate Camp discusses The Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil, translated and with an introduction by David West. Audio
Kate Camp has published five collections of poems, most recently Snow White’s Coffin (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 9780864738882)
See also
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Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
A selection of Kate De Goldi's reviews of children's books from the Saturday Morning archives. -
Poetry with Cliff Fell
Poet and educator Cliff Fell discusses the influence of the 'classic' poems and poets. -
Crime Writing
Interviews with Neil Cross, Ian Rankin, Kate Atkinson, Peter Temple, Paddy Richardson, Paul Cleave and other writers of crime fiction. -
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Roger Wilson reads the Grimm versions of some of the fairytales, which are kind, cruel, occasionally shocking and other times just absurd... but always entertaining! Enjoy! -
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