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Going West Audio

Going West is publishing treasures from our audio archives. Re-edited and remastered, we're sounding better than ever.

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Keri Hulme: BAIT

Keri Hulme: BAIT

At the 1997 Going West Festival, author Keri Hulme made a rare public appearance to discuss and read two excerpts from h... Read more

19 Jun 2022

39mins

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Molten Clefts of Magma

Molten Clefts of Magma

Beloved west Auckland poet Serie Barford was nominated in the NZ Book Awards for Sleeping With Stones, traversing oceans... Read more

12 Jun 2022

23mins

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Contested Spaces

Contested Spaces

Lucy Mackintosh, Richard Shaw and Pita Turei discuss stories of Taranaki and Tāmaki Makaurau, both ancient and personal,... Read more

5 Jun 2022

52mins

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Forward Into the World of Light

Forward Into the World of Light

Casting lines out into Moana Pasifika and pulling words back to West Auckland, Tongan, Samoan and Pālagi poet Karlo Mila... Read more

29 May 2022

36mins

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Robin Hyde’s Auckland: an audiovisual essay.

Robin Hyde’s Auckland: an audiovisual essay.

A deep dive into the life of Robin Hyde, aka Iris Wilkinson, exploring her contribution to New Zealand literature, her t... Read more

22 May 2022

25mins

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Maurice Shadbolt

Maurice Shadbolt

From Going West’s second year in 1997, master storyteller Maurice Shadbolt, celebrates the near forgotten lives from New... Read more

4 Apr 2021

16mins

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Words and Melody

Words and Melody

The magic of weaving poetry and music together is on show in this Going West session from 2017. Paula Green, poet, antho... Read more

28 Mar 2021

35mins

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Women Then, Women Now | Wāhine o Mua, Wāhine o Nāianei

Women Then, Women Now | Wāhine o Mua, Wāhine o Nāianei

Women in Aotearoa New Zealand. Five leading women meet in the 125th year since the 1893 granting of female suffrage in N... Read more

21 Mar 2021

55mins

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Diana Wichtel: Driving to Treblinka

Diana Wichtel: Driving to Treblinka

In 2017, Going West was the first festival to invite award winning journalist Diana Wichtel to talk about her newly publ... Read more

12 Mar 2021

46mins

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Max Cryer Tracking the Vernacular

Max Cryer Tracking the Vernacular

Appearing at Going West in 2002, Max Cryer talks about New Zealand’s vernacular English and its origins. As he notes, “W... Read more

7 Mar 2021

31mins

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