15 Best New Zealand Book Podcasts
New Zealand Book Podcasts
Here are 15 Best New Zealand Book Podcasts worth listening to in 2024
1. Loose Reads
Get your bookworm on with a rotating roster of, um, bookworms. Including Jenna Todd & Kiran Dass 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.
Podcast podcasts.apple.com
Producer/Network 95bFM Brekky & Drive Bits
Email ****@95bfm.com
Facebook Followers 18.7KTwitter Followers 19.3KInstagram Followers 13.4K Frequency 1 episode/week Play Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com . We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us
2. The Amateur Austenite
An enthusiastic amateur discusses Jane Austen's novels chapter by chapter. All are welcome whether you have a fancy degree or not.
Podcast buzzsprout.com
Host Frances Duncan
Instagram Followers 51 Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 25 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact
3. Bookenz
With a lifelong passion for books and a growing passion for New Zealand authors, program hosts Ruth Todd and Morrin Rout utilize their wealth of radio broadcasting experience to bring you Bookenz. A weekly program that brings you the latest on new books and their authors, from both New Zealand and abroad. Bookenz organises several fundraising events each year with touring writers which have proven to be very popular events to the wider community.
Podcast plainsfm.org.nz
Producer/Network Morrin Rout
Email ****@plainsfm.org.nz
Facebook Followers 3.4KTwitter Followers 378Instagram Followers 833 Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 54 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact
4. The Featherston Booktown Podcast
The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival is where we celebrate books, storytelling and ideas, and the artifact 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.
Podcast buzzsprout.com
Producer/Network Featherston Booktown
Email ****@booktown.org.nz
Facebook Followers 2.8KTwitter Followers 261Instagram Followers 1.9K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 54 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact
5. The Marlborough Book Festival
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.
Podcast marlboroughbookfest.co.nz
Facebook Followers 1.1KTwitter Followers 407Instagram Followers 515 Frequency 2 episodes/month Avg Length 59 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact
6. The Wonderful World of Wardini Books
Louise Ward is a former police officer and teacher, now co-owner of Wardini Books in Havelock North and Napier, finally putting that English Literature degree to relevant use. She shares the book shops with author husband Gareth, well known locally as magician and hypnotist The Great Wardini. As Gareth usually gets all the glamorous jobs and Louise does the admin, she's thrilled to have this opportunity to be on the radio. Louise sells books by day, and reads them by night; she claims to be living the dream.
Podcast podcasts.apple.com
Email ****@radiohawkesbay.org.nz
Facebook Followers 3.7K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 11 min Listen on Spotify Video Podcast YouTube
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7. Write On with Vanda Symon
Award winning crime writer Vanda Symon hosts this show on behalf of the Otago-Southland branch of the NZ Society of Authors. Every month she interviews a local or international writer about their current projects and the process of writing. Write On with Vanda Symon has been created with the generous support from the University Book Shop.
Podcast oar.org.nz
Producer/Network Beverly Martens
Facebook Followers 488 Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 51 min Since Dec 2019 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact
8. The Best in Mystery, Romance and Historicals
Irresistible book recommendations for binge readers.
Podcast thejoysofbingereading.com
Producer/Network Jenny Wheeler
Email ****@gmail.com
Facebook Followers 238 Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 35 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact
9. Alphabet Book Club
A virtual book club for readers of queer books in Aotearoa-New Zealand!
Podcast sites.libsyn.com
Email ****@alphabetbookclub.nz
Facebook Followers 595Twitter Followers 309Instagram Followers 1.5K Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact
10. BOOKS THAT WORK
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.
Podcast podcasts.apple.com
Producer/Network Anna Hughes
Email ****@xtra.co.nz
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11. The Author's Tale
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. Presented and Produced by Stephanie Frewen, made with assistance from the Christchurch City Council and Creative Communities Scheme.
Podcast shows.acast.com
Email ****@yahoo.com
Frequency 3 episodes/year Avg Length 33 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact
New Zealand Book Podcasters
Podcaster Name | Podcast Link | Total Episodes | |
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Frances Duncan | buzzsprout.com/258669 | 67 | |
Jenny Wheeler | thejoysofbingereading.com | 67 | |
Kerryn Trisha | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kerryn-hewson | 51 | |
Kerryn Hewson | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kerryn-hewson | 49 | |
Ruth Todd and Morrin Rout | plainsfm.org.nz/programme/bookenz | 44 | |
Louise Ward | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1456676394 | 38 | |
Stephanie Frewen | shows.acast.com/the-authors-tale | 21 | |
Alphabet Book Club | sites.libsyn.com/397445 | 19 | |
Beverly Martens | oar.org.nz/write-on-with-beverly-martens | 15 | |
Featherston Booktown | buzzsprout.com/2172196 | 14 | |
The Marlborough Book Festival | marlboroughbookfest.co.nz/our-podcasts | 12 | |
Vanda Symon | oar.org.nz/write-on-with-beverly-martens | 4 | |
Judith Beck | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 | |
Jessica Hickman | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 | |
Karen Hold | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 | |
Katrine Marçal | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 | |
Kieran Flanagan & Dan Gregory | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 | |
Lucy Easthope | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 | |
Melanie Marshall | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 | |
Owen Eastwood | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 | |
Patty McCord | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 | |
Shannah Kennedy | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 | |
Suneel Gupta | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 | |
Suzi McAlpine | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 | |
Zoe Routh | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1550004678 | 1 |