15 Best New Zealand Book Podcasts

1. 95bFM: Loose Reads

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Get your bookworm on with a rotating roster of, um, bookworms. Including Jenna Todd & Suri Reddy from Time Out Bookstore, bringing us a different book to talk about each week. Broadcast from Auckland, New Zealand on Monday mornings after 9am, on 95bFM Breakfast with Mikey Havoc.MORE Hosts Jenna Todd, Suri Reddy
Producer/Network 95bFM Brekky & Drive Bits
Email ****@95bfm.com
Location Auckland, New Zealand
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2. The Amateur Austenite

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An enthusiastic amateur discusses Jane Austen's novels chapter by chapter. All are welcome whether you have a fancy degree or not.
Host Frances Duncan
Producer/Network Frances Duncan
Location New Zealand
Apple Rating 5/5Instagram 66 Avg Length 20 min Get Email Contact

3. The Featherston Booktown Podcast

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The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival is where we celebrate books, storytelling and ideas, and the artefact and craft of the book.Join NZ Herald Columnist Shane Te Pou and Booktown volunteer Phil Quin for a series of enlightening and entertaining discussions with some of the featured guests from the Festival.The Festival takes place from 10 -12 May 2024 in Featherston, Aotearoa - New Zealand.MORE Hosts Shane Te Pou, Phil Quin
Producer/Network Featherston Booktown
Email ****@mega.co.nz
Location New Zealand
Facebook 4.2KTwitter 261Instagram 2.2K Avg Length 64 min Get Email Contact

4. The Creative Midwife Show

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Welcome to The Creative Midwife Show! I'm your host, Kerryn Trisha, creative midwife, organiser of ideas, writer, editor, and writing coach. On the show I take you behind the scenes of writing my book and bring you guests to share their experience writing, editing, and publishing their book babies.MORE Host Kerryn Trisha
Producer/Network Kerryn Trisha
Email ****@kerrynhewson.com
Location Greater Wellington, New Zealand
Instagram 117 Avg Length 44 min Get Email Contact

5. The Marlborough Book Festival

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The Marlborough Book Festival is an annual readers and writers festival held in July in Marlborough, New Zealand. Listen to our podcasts to hear discussions with our featured writers, as they explain the challenges and the highlights of creating their various works and their lives as writers.MORE Producer/Network The Marlborough Book Festival
Location Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
Facebook 1.4KTwitter 407Instagram 644 Avg Length 57 min Get Email Contact

6. Alphabet Book Club

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A virtual book club for readers of queer books in Aotearoa-New Zealand!
Producer/Network Alphabet Book Club
Email ****@alphabetbookclub.nz
Location New Zealand
Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 821Twitter 309Instagram 1.5K Avg Length 57 min Get Email Contact

7. Bookenz

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Interviews with NZ writers and poets, visiting authors from around the world and news of local events
Host Morrin Rout
Producer/Network Morrin Rout
Email ****@plainsfm.org.nz
Location Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Facebook 4.1KTwitter 378Instagram 936 Avg Length 54 min Get Email Contact

8. Write On with Beverly Martens

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Write On is hosted by Beverly Martens, a Dunedin-based writer and founder of Dunedin Literary Walking Tours.
Producer/Network Beverly Martens
Email ****@oar.org.nz
Location Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Facebook 615 Avg Length 51 min Since Dec 2019 Get Email Contact

9. BOOKS THAT WORK

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Business books you're too busy to read - but need to know about. Get the best and most useful bits from business writing covering everything from leadership, to culture, to the future of work and strategy. We speed read a book, talk to the author and share five things each time to adopt or try to make work better.MORE Producer/Network Anna Hughes
Email ****@xtra.co.nz
Location Auckland, New Zealand
Avg Length 26 min Get Email Contact

10. The Author's Tale

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Casual conversations with prominent and influential New Zealand Authors.How did they become a writer, what inspires them, influences them and where does their writing journey take them next?The first series features Canterbury authors Kathleen Gallagher, Gavin Bishop and James Norcliffe.Series two: Helen Lowe and Heather McQuillan with more to follow.Presented and Produced by Stephanie Frewen, made with assistance from the Christchurch City Council and Creative Communities Scheme, and also Edition Audiobooks - www.editionaudiobooks.com edition@editionaudiobooks...MORE Host Stephanie Frewen
Producer/Network Stephanie Frewen
Email ****@yahoo.com
Location New Zealand
Avg Length 33 min Get Email Contact

11. The Wonderful World of Wardini Books

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A weekly review of some the latest books with Louise Ward
Producer/Network Louise Ward
Email ****@radiohawkesbay.org.nz
Location New Zealand
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12. The Joys of Binge Reading

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Never be without something remarkable to read. We recommend the latest and best in mystery, suspense, romance and historical adventure, so you'll never be without a book you can't put down. Interviews with successful series authors and their passionate readers, where readers and writers share the guilty pleasures of binge reading.MORE Producer/Network Jenny Wheeler
Email ****@gmail.com
Location Auckland, New Zealand
Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 311 Avg Length 35 min Get Email Contact