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The Good Word - Series Three
Television (Full Length Episodes) – 2011
Literature — local and global — is celebrated and critiqued in the third season of The Good Word. Across 15 episodes, presenter Emily Perkins hosts a book club where three panelists provide their thoughts on a novel. Actor Jennifer Ward-Lealand , ex censor Bill Hastings and broadcaster Gordon McLauchlan are frequent guests. Perkins then introduces a celebrity or artist who discusses their favourite book, before the show leaves the studio to visit a New Zealand writer at the place they work. Finally, Finlay Macdonald hosts 'Under the Covers', which deep dives on a piece of literature important to Aotearoa; from novels to cookbooks to children's books. Find the full episode guide here.
I have to be sitting at my desk at nine. I don't just run there at nine o'clock — I have to be there, ready at nine . . . I have to have had a bath, I have to have particular clothes on...– Writer Shonagh Koea on her writing rituals, in episode one
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