Writers and Readers Festivals Podcast Options

8:40 AM.Alexander McCall Smith thinks the poet W. H. Auden provides a great guide to living a good life. He talks to Finlay Macdonald about Auden, 15 years of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, his… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.American author of 11 books including the novel May We Be Forgiven and the memoir The Mistress's Daughter. She will visit here in May for the Auckland Writers Festival. Read more Audio

12:17 PM.Auckland Writers and Readers festival director previews this year's event. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Reza Aslan is an Iranian-American writer and scholar of religions. He is coming to New Zealand in May as part of the Auckland writers festival. His books include: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.Several world renowned authors will descend on Auckland this year as part of the country's biggest literary event. Audio

12:58 PM.New Zealand author and curator speaking at the New Zealand Festival Writers Week. Audio

1:49 PM.New Zealand author speaking at the New Zealand Festival Writers Week. Audio

12:10 PM.Australian author previews his Writers Week appearance at the New Zealand Festival. Audio

10:06 AM.Margaret MacMillan is a professor of international history at St Antony's College, Oxford. She discusses her new book 'The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War'. It… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Walter A Hass Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, San Francisco, and author of seven books of criticism and a memoir. She will be a guest at Writers Week at the NZ Festival Audio

7:10 PM.After more than three decades in comedy, Sandi Toksvig is considered a British national treasure. She is the long-serving host of the BBC Radio 4 political comedy panel show, The News Quiz; author of… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Acclaimed Australian author Tim Winton talks about writing, his love of western Australia, and his latest novel 'Eyrie' - the story of Tom Keely, who is divorced, unemployed and living in a seedy flat… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Nick Davies broke the phone hacking scandal that had been covered up for years by Rupert Murdoch's News International, and his work saw the Guardian, alongside The New York Times, become the main news… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.John Boyne, the writer of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, talks to Lynn Freeman. Audio

4:06 PM.Ruth Todd explores the use of family history with Miriam Frank and Mireille Juchau. Audio

4:06 PM.The UK novelist Chris Cleave talks about his fiction with Kate de Goldi. Audio

4:06 PM.Antarctic writer Chris Turney talks to Veronika Meduna about some of the less well-known aspects of Antarctic exploration. Audio

4:06 PM.In conversation with Ed Butler, Chris Turney, Rebecca Priestley and Veronika Meduna explore their different perspectives on writing about Antarctica. Audio

10:10 AM.Award-winning British novelist David Mitchell and his Japanese wife Keiko Yoshida have an autistic son. They've translated and had published a book by written by a Japanese autistic 13-year-old, Naoki… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Russian-American journalist whose new book is The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, and is a guest at the 2013 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. Audio

3:40 PM.The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival is bringing more than 150 authors from around New Zealand and the world. The Festival started in 1999 as a biennial event, but with the popularity of the event… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Best-selling historical fiction writer Edward Rutherford's latest book, Paris: The Novel. His sweeping books about other places, like New York, London and Russia are famous for their breadth and… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Author of a number of books for young adults including the Chaos Walking trilogy, and A Monster Calls. His new novel for adults is The Crane Wife and he will be a guest at the 2013 Auckland Writers &amp… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Indian novelist who will visit New Zealand in May for the 2013 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival. Audio

10:08 AM.Aleks Krotoski, Doctor of Philosophy in Social Psychology at the University of Surrey. She examined "how information spreads around the social networks of the World Wide Web" in her PhD. She has a… Read more Audio