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Under the Covers is a spin-off series from the TVNZ 7 book series The Good Word, compiling Finlay Macdonald’s 10-minute pieces on great NZ books into a programme of their own. Each episode features three books and tells the story behind them with a mix of interviews, readings and archive footage. This episode features Barry Crump’s A Good Keen Man, David Lange’s My Life, and — in this excerpt — Jane Mander’s The Story of a New Zealand River, the 1917 novel that some say was an uncredited inspiration for the Jane Campion film The Piano.
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Film, 1993 (Trailer and Excerpts)
The Jane Campion film that some say has similarities to The Story of a New Zealand River
Finalist - Most
Outstanding Website
The ONYAs 2010 & 2011
Best Entertainment Website
Finalist – Website design
Qantas Media Awards 2009
NZ ON SCREEN 2012
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