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Have you ordered your tickets for WOA's  July 7 fundraiser event yet? to hear the Fabulous Fionas?
FIONA FARRELL AND FIONA KIDMAN  Concession prices for students available -
just phone Ruth 384 4721 or Morrin 329 9789

Highlights on Women on Air Plains FM 96.9 this Saturday at 10.00
Another fantastic Saturday programme coming up - just the weather to stay near your radio  Last chance  to get tickets for Tuesday - it will be a great night & it is always warm at CGHS!  Don't miss Fiona Kidman at 10.10 on Sat and you can podcast Fiona Farrell if you missed her interview last Saturday - www.womenonair.org.nz   Fiona Kidman's will be there next week.
Ruth

DAME FIONA KIDMAN discusses the second volume of her memoir, beginning with her reflecting on her political protest of the 1981 Springbok tour and its repercussions. "BESIDE THE DARK POOL" has wonderful stories of how she came to write many of her novels, time as a journalist on the Chatham Islands,  journeys to festivals all over the world and personal glimpses of her family life.  

For decades, the proportion of women studying at the Otago Medical School, was 1 out of 10; from the 1970s, it began to become more balanced and now women are in the majority, though not in the specialities or on the staff.   DR DOT PAGE, previously Associate Professor in the Otago University History Department, has recently published the history of the Otago Medical School and she has fascinating stories of the  women who became doctors at the end of the 19th century and early 20th.She will be sharing some of those with us on the programme. Amazing pioneer women

Ever thought of cleaning your toilet with nothing but baking soda and vinegar? Or painting your nails with henna?  WENDYL NISSEN knows how hard it is to juggle family and career, while saving the planet and living within your means She has plenty of ideas to talk about and we are giving away a copy of DOMESTIC GODDESS ON A BUDGET - how to save money and time and still be gorgeous during the programme on Saturday

Always good to discover a new NZ fiction writer and LYN LOATES grew up in Christchurch, worked overseas as a journalist and is now back in Auckland  Her story- BUTTERSCOTCH - is a very clever, intriguing piece of writing, set in Christchurch at the time of the Parker-Hulme murder in the 1950s, when her protagonist, Helen, is 8. Her family shift to Melbourne and later when she is 21, she returns to re-visit scenes of her childhood   And some quirky  stories unfold , told by  some quite wacky characters

Nutritionist, BRONWEN KING, with her monthly comment - what we need to know about different types of milk & the calcium content

Singer songwriter, SHONA LAING joins us by phone in the last  20 minutes before midday to talk about her latest recordings and her gig next Thursday at the Harbour Light. She will be accompanied that night by Denny Stanaway , James Wilkinson and Jimmy Young, looking forward to playing some of her earlier music from the 1970s, 80s and90s during the programme 

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.

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