Maurice Shadbolt, On writing history to life

Maurice Shadbolt, master storyteller, celebrates the near forgotten lives from New Zealand’s history and the business of writing them to life in both fiction and memoir.

Oratory, Season 3Going West Festival5 April 2021New Zealand Aotearoa History, Historical fiction, Biography, Memoir, Hamiora Pere, Colonial New Zealand, New Zealand Land Wars, Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki, The Season of the Jew, One of Ben’s, Maurice Shadbolt

Diana Wichtel: Driving to Treblinka

In conversation with Steve Braunias, Diana Wichtel talks of her memoir and the long search for her lost father Ben Wichtel, a Polish Jew, rounded up by the Nazis and who jumped to safety from a train on the way to the Treblinka death camp.

Season 3, DiscourseGoing West Festival14 March 2021Memoir, Family History, Autobiography, Treblinka Death Camp, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Holocaust Survivors, Jewish Refugees, Poland, Antisemitism, Diana Wichtel, Benjamin Wichtel, Steve Braunias

My Life With Flying Nun

Roger Shepherd in conversation with John Campbell discussing Roger’s memoir In Love With These Times: My Life With Flying Nun Records

Discourse, Season 1Going West Festival30 July 2020Flying Nun Records, Music in New Zealand, New Zealand Music Industry, Dunedin Bands, The Clean [band], Memoir, Roger Shepherd, John Campbell

What Lies Beneath: Memoir and Memory

In her book What Lies Beneath, novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter and playwright Elspeth Sandys shares her voyage into memoir and its complex relationship with memory.

Discourse, Season 1Going West Festival21 July 2020Memoir, Memory, Adoption, Fiction Writers, Maurice Shadbolt, Elsepth Sandys