Going West Writers Festival 25 years on

This September marks the 25th Going West Writers Festival, though it won't be the big public birthday bash the organizers had planned. Instead, they've been poring through the archives to create an 18-week-long podcast series of highlights - conversations, performances and poetry. The first one's just been been published. The Festival's co-founder and current chair is Naomi McCleary, who received a MNZM in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the arts. She tells Lynn Freeman they were very reluctant to pull the plug on the live event.