Episode Playlist
Wireless Books - 02-12-2023 - Books for Christmas( 0:25:18)
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Books for Christmas - It's starting to look a lot like Christmas and one of the great Athenaeum Christmas traditions is being about to take a double lot of books over the summer break and Christine is busy buying up new books to meet the demand. In todays episode she reviews some of the new books.
Published: 2/12/2023 12:30:00 p.m.
Wireless Books - 18-11-2023 - Randolph Churchill( 0:26:11)
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Randolph Churchill - Randolph was the only son of Sir Winston Churchill (Britain's war time prime minister) and famous for his volcanic tempter. The Athenaeum has a biography written by his cousin Anita Leslie in the collection and Christine shares some of the funnier stories contained in it.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz
Published: 18/11/2023 12:30:00 p.m.
Wireless Books - 04-11-2023 - The Dangers of Lawn Tennis( 0:26:4)
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The Dangers of Lawn Tennis - A hundred years ago people were worried that women were ruining their figures by playing lawn tennis becoming lean, tough and unattractive. But here in the present we have new books to talk about.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz
Published: 4/11/2023 1:00:00 p.m.
Wireless Books - 19-10-2023 - Waving Ghost( 0:25:48)
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Waving Ghost - A recent haunting in Dunedin turned out to be much less spooky than it originally appeared. The police were called and soon got to the bottom of it. Christine has all the details as well as lots of new books to review.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz
Published: 19/10/2023 5:21:38 p.m.
Wireless Books - 09-09-2023 - Granny's Chips( 0:26:32)
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Granny's Chips - Queen Mary was renowned for her fabulous jewelry and Christine lists the incredible gems she wore to her coronation in 1911, many of which Queen Camilla used in her own coronation. The diamond Cockade and the diamond Stomacher really caught our interest.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz
Published: 9/09/2023 12:30:00 p.m.
Wireless Books - 12-08-2023 - By Dickens!( 0:26:41)
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By Dickens! - Barbara Kingsolver's novel Demon Copperhead was modeled on David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and when Christine mentions this Beth reveals a surprising amount of knowledge about the great man's ten children.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz
Published: 12/08/2023 12:30:00 p.m.
Wireless Books - 01-07-2023 - A Stack of Books( 0:26:34)
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A Stack of Books - The Athenaeum was lucky enough to have a stack of books donated to us in the last week so Christine's rundown of new books is longer than usual this episode.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz
Published: 1/07/2023 12:30:00 p.m.
Wireless Books - 17-06-2023 - The History of the Mountain of Light( 0:26:48)
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The History of the Mountain of Light - The Mountain of Light is the Koh-i-noor one of the world's biggest diamonds. Christine gives a very quick run through it's complicated history to explain how India, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Taliban all feel they have a claim for it's return from the British government.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz
Published: 17/06/2023 12:30:00 p.m.