Kia ora Everyone
Great to be back on WOA for 2010 - tickets are selling very fast for our first event for 2010 on Friday 19 February with Marina Lewycka -[ see above] Don't miss out - Ph Ruth 384 4721 or go to Scorpio Books in Hereford St

Highlights on Women on Air Plains FM 96.9 this Saturday 13 FEBRUARYat 10am
In freezing mid winter Moscow, 1924, SONECHKA BALK queues to view Lenin's body - to see the man whose revolution has stolen her youth. The orphaned Sonechka has been left destitute and her idyllic life in the Crimea, destroyed. In June of that year, at 19 years old, she fled Moscow alone on the Trans-Siberian Express. She became one of the thirty thousand White Russian exiles in Shanghai, shunned by the rest of the world. Eventually , she found refuge in America. An incredible legacy of memoirs & stories were left to her daughter, OLGA HAWKES, and she & her husband John, have just published this remarkable story. "RUSSIAN AT HEART" I talk with Olga just after 10.00.

Sunday is Valentine's Day and RACHEL McALPINE has a book for every woman to read We will be giving away a copy of "SCARLET HEELS" 26 stories about sex. 26 women, young & old, talk about moments when sex or abstaining from sex, changed their lives somehow, bringing clarity, change or love. - in a pulpit, garden, airport, cupboard, train or bed!
I talk with Rachel by phone to Wellington at 10.30.

JANE SHANNIHAN previews the Festival of Flowers, coming up very soon. She will clarify what will be happening at the festival & what will be on at the Ellerslie Flower Show later.

Our first political comment this year comes from NICKY WAGNER

Violinist & composer, FIONA PEARS, talks about a new charity she is supporting overseas and her upcoming concerts at the Harbourlight 19 & 20 February, after 11.30

DAPHNE CRAMPTON with her regular comment on current issues

ROBYNANNE MILFORD is a Christchurch GP and mother of three adult children who has read as a guest poet for the Canterbury Poets' Collective Madras Cafe Bookshop Autumn Season of Poetry Reading, been anthologised in Crest to Crest: Impressions of Canterbury Poetry & Prose and been published in a number of New Zealand literary journals. Songcatcher (Whitestream Press, 2009) is Robynanne's first collection and she talks with Helen about her love of poetry and the passions and interests behind the collection.

All this and more.....

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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.

You'll know us when you hear us! Go on - Discover a world of Difference on 96.9 FM.