The Marlborough Book Festival

In 2017, The Marlborough Readers and Writers Charitable Trust won the supreme Marlborough Trustpower Community Award.  Trustee and founding Marlborough Book Festival committee member Sonia O'Regan spoke to Tash from MoreFM after our big win was announced.

Brian Turner is a New Zealand poet, essayist, biographer and editor, as well as an ardent and accomplished sportsman, conservationist and champion of our wild places. In this conversation with Mike White, Brian, a previous New Zealand Poet Laureate, talks about growing up in one of New Zealand's most famous sporting families and representing New Zealand; ocean sailing, climbing, cycling, fishing a...

John Pickrell is an award-winning journalist, the former editor of Australian Geographic magazine and the author of Flying Dinosaurs, How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds, and Weird Dinosaurs, The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything we Thought we Knew. John joined us at the 2017 Marlborough Book Festival for two sessions in conversation with Mike White, including this one at Spy Valley Wines,...

Is beer pong an Olympic sport? What does beer made with stag semen taste like? Author of How To Have A Beer Alice Galletly provides answers to such pressing questions and offers tips on how to get the most out of every glass of beer, in conversation with wine maker Ben Glover at the 2017 Marlborough Book Festival. 

Dame Anne Salmond makes history intriguing, exciting and highly relevant. An eminent anthropologist, historian, writer and environmentalist, Anne shares her understanding of the Māori experience and how it shapes us all as New Zealanders. As Marlborough prepares to celebrate 250 years since Cook first visited the region, local author Peter Jerram, a long-time Cook enthusiast, spoke with Anne abou...

Four of New Zealand's leading journalists - Mike White, Nikki Macdonald, Naomi Arnold and Charles Anderson - discuss how they tell stories in depth in an age of clickbait, and the role of new story-telling techniques and the ressurgence of  podcasts.