We are back for our 20th year of broadcasting
...this Saturday from 10am...

SATURDAY 19 MAY
I am looking out on fresh snow on the mountains – winter is here! A good time to stay near your radio. Do hope you can tune in on Saturday or check out the podcasts.

KRIS VAVASOUR (left) is currently an MA student (Cultural Studies) at the University of Canterbury, and a part-time tutor at the NZBS. Background in radio & sound production, she has produced two radio documentaries (both about local music & community), one of which (Harbour SouNZ) was a finalist in the NZ Radio Awards in 2010. Member of the 'Sept 2010' club - those who lost their houses to the very first earthquake - and is about to rejoin the homeowners' club, with rebuilding of the family home due to commence this week. Follow the rebuild progress (& other sundry items) on www.rebuildshakeytown.blogspot.com  Kris will be talking about the International Crisis & Risk Communications conference at the University of Central Florida in Orlando where she shared her research into Canterbury people’s media use / communication methods during & after the earthquakes

Our political comment comes this week from MEGAN WOODS

Following some years as counsellor for Canterbury Bereaved by Suicide Society, HEATHER HAPETA set off for a year’s OE. When she returned home, she promised herself as well as becoming a travel writer, to write about her son’s death. Now she has completed SURVIVING SUICIDE: A MOTHER’S STORY.  It is available from Heather at heatherhapeta@orcon.net.nz  or at My e-books on Amazon. This is an excellent handbook for families & professionals. We discuss this very important topic at around 10.25

A crime writer who may be new to readers, YVONNE EVE WALUS (left) is a Polish, South African NZer & an award winning writer with 2 published crime novels & a series of romance novels. We discuss her book MURDER @ PLAY – in which a mathematician & her friends are enjoying a weekend together, when one of them is murdered. Which of them is guilty? Yvonne’s background is also in mathematics

In 2011, Christchurch poet, BERNADETTE HALL, (right) spent a year at the Institute of Modern Letters , during which time she edited the on-line anthology, BEST NEW ZEALAND POEMS 2011 – a selection of her what in her opinion formed the very best poems published during that year – www.victoria.ac.nz/bestnzpoems  She talks with Helen Lowe about selecting the 25 poems that comprise “ the crown of good company” for 2011.

And our musician of the week is Irish born, singer-songwriter, EILEEN REID, (right) with new music.


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