Highlights on Women on Air Plains FM 96.9 this Saturday from 10am
We open the programme with a phone call to co-leader of the Greens, METIRIA TUREI, & check out how she sees the Maori language developing in Aotearoa, & her thoughts on the government's plans to develop mining. Most of our music today will be from Maori musicians.

A successful poet, ALISON WONG is now having huge success with her first novel, AS THE EARTH TURNS SILVER, which is in the final 3 books for the NZ Post award for fiction and also in the Prime Minister's award in Australia where she is now living. From the late 19th century to the 1920s, from Kwangtung, China, to Wellington & Dunedin & the battlefields of the Western Front- a story of two families. Yung faces a new land that does not welcome the Chinese. Alone, Katherine struggles to raise her children & find her place in the world. Alison is taking part in the ChCh Writers festival, in a panel with Jane Carswell from ChCh & Ouyang Lu from Australia which will be a special treat check out www.chchwritersfest.co.nz  & book soon for CHINESE REFLECTIONS on Sunday 12 Sept; We repeat the interview Morrin had with Alison last year when the book first came out

To celebrate National Poetry Day, we talk with BERNADETTE HALL & LINDA CONNELL, who is back in ChCh . Linda has just published her second book of poetry & has a quirky sense of humour which permeates all her work. I catch up with where she has been travelling over the past few years & she reads from her new collection. BERNADETTE HALL is recognised as one of the country’s more distinctive poetic voices. She was the 1996 Burns Fellow at Otago University and in 2004 shared an Artists in Antarctica Fellowship with friend and collaborator, Dunedin artist Kathryn Madill. The author of nine poetry collections, her work has been published in a range of national and international anthologies. Hall was the 2006 Victoria University Writer in Residence and in 2007 held the Rathcoola Residency in Donoughmore, Ireland. Her latest poetry collection, The Lustre Jug, is one of three finalists for this year's NZ Post National Poetry Prize. Helen Lowe will be talking with Bernadette about THE LUSTRE JUG being a NZ Post finalist and celebrating poetry-all as part of National Poetry Day on Women on Air.

In our Fun For Free series, Lynda Clark talks with HONALEE HUNTER about LAUGHTER YOGA - a great way to have fun & laugh a lot. You don't need to tell jokes or hold yoga poses. It's for everyone, all ages & abilities. Amazing health benefits too - laughter is definitely the best medicine. www.thegiggles.co.nz  or www.laughteryoga.com 

And our musician of the week in the last half hour is JESS SHANKS - Denise catches up with her after 11.30 - - singer songwriter & banjo player in Lyttelton's own footstomping folk band, The EASTERN

Cheers
Ruth

Contact Us
Ruth Todd
Women on Air  C/- PlainsFM
PO Box 22 297
Christchurch
ruth@womenonair.org.nz

Plains FM96.9
Te Reo Irirangi O Te Maania
"The voices (languages) in the air over the plains".
Discover a World of Difference on this unique radio station. Plains FM96.9 is operated by the Canterbury Communications Trust as a community radio station providing facilities for community access broadcasting and is supported with funding from NZ on Air. As well as a range of excellent local information programming and superb music, Plains FM 96.9 caters for groups under-represented in mainstream media. These groups include:

. Women
. Children & Youth
. People with disabilities
. Minority groups, including ethnic minorities

Plains FM96.9 provides the technical facilities and professional training to enable these groups to broadcast their own programmes. The station then hands editorial control to the broadcaster with the aim of empowering and strengthening the links within and between communities to foster and develop the culture of New Zealand / Aotearoa.  The station also provides listeners with alternative community programming in the form of feature interviews about local issues and events on Mornings 8am-10am, BBC World Service news, documentary programmes and music from around the world. We specialise in new release music across a number of genres including acoustic roots, world, alternative country, folk, blues and jazz.

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