Anna talks to legal scholar Melanie about the legal framework for censorship in Aotearoa | New Zealand, whether filthy historical novel Fanny Hill is worth reading and if a sense of politesse would be the best way to regulate speech.
#11 Stephanie Johnson
Stephanie and Anna talk about pen names, historical fiction and how having a play performed is like being a god.
#10: Tim Heath
Anna and Tim Heath talk about performance poetry, punctuation and how writing a poem is like falling in love.
#9: Jos Franks
Anna and Jos Franks talk about spaces for women to raise their voices, what it means to arrange a song and how the bookshop moved Jos from step one to step two of her SHE choir Auckland journey.
#8: Hayden Glass
Anna and Hayden Glass talk about the value of art, spaces to be human in, and how Hayden came to own The Open Book.