About The Good Word
Fridays at 9.05pm, and repeats on Tuesdays at
9.30pm
Emily Perkins and panellists Te Radar, Miriama Kamo and
Gordon McLauchlan review Catch 22 by Joseph Heller; Robyn Malcolm
shares a favourite book; and Finlay Macdonald looks at a Damien
Wilkins book.
About the show
A new series of the trend-setting local book show The Good Word
starts on TVNZ 7 tonight, on the eve of New Zealand Book Month.
Award-winning local novelist and host, Emily Perkins, leads the discussion from the studio with an all-star book review panel, and interviews a notable guest on each episode about his or her favourite book; while reporter Finlay Macdonald is in the field with his Under the Covers series, investigating the stories behind famous New Zealand books.
Theres also a strand of two-minute documentaries called Write Space, which get up-close and curious about the creative habits of a variety of Kiwi writers.
Broadcasters Miriama Kamo and Carol Hirschfeld; funny man Te Radar; District Court judge Bill Hastings; actress Jennifer Ward-Lealand; and journalists Gordon McLauchlan and Steve Braunias, all return to the regular book review panel.
Among the special guests spilling the beans on their favourite books in the new series will be actress Robyn Malcolm, painter/ writer Jacqueline Fahey, arts patron Dame Jenny Gibbs, ex-Fair Go presenter Kevin Milne and rock singer Jon Toogood.
Visit the website of the makers of The Good Word - 3rd Party
Productions -
here
Interested in starting your own book club?
If you would like to start your own book club but aren't sure how
to go about it, visit the Book Discussion Scheme website for more
information:
http://www.bds.org.nz
