This Saturday....
This
week I really must play Tui De Roy - has been there for weeks &
keeps missing out! you have all the details - international wildlife
photographer who has done enormous research on the albatross etc
We talk with Joan Miles , manager of BreastScreen South, about her
role, for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
If you have read "84 Charing Cross Road", you will definitely want to see the
production on at the Repertory Theatre from 11-19 October - www.repertory.com
Written by Helene Hanff, in 1970, it tells the touching friendship that develops
between her & Frank Doel, the buyer for Marks & Co at 84 Charing Cross Road , a
famous bookshop in London. She is in New York & on the hunt for obscure classics
& British literature from 1949. Their letters are full of wit & warmth everyday
things. We talk with Marama Grant, who plays the role of Helene.
Robyn Martin is our foodie this week, with a new book of quick &
easy favourite recipes - she talks with Joanne about her cakes, biscuits &
slices in Robyn Martin Bakes & we will have a recipe for you too
News of the winner of the New Horizons for Women Trust Elsie Locke research
award - Margaret Sweet gives us the details of the work that Maria
Rowe will be doing - returning to medical research at a mature age to do a PhD
in to cystitis.
"In May of this year, the NZ Poetry Society received 655 entries, from New
Zealand and overseas, for the adult section of its 2008 International Poetry
Competition. Second and Third places were taken by Christchurch poets: Frankie
McMillan was second with Birthday Boy, while Elizabeth Robertson took third
place for My Sister's San Diego Garden. A further five Canterbury poets received
Highly Commended and Commended placings and more again have been included
amongst the 123 poets featured in the forthcoming NZ Poetry Anthology, Before
the Sirocco." For the next few months, Helen Lowe will be featuring poems
and poetry from the 2008 International Poetry Competition and the subsequent
anthology, Before the Sirocco. This
Saturday, 11 October, she will be talking with Frankie McMillan
and Elizabeth Robertson about their second and third place winning
poems."
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