By Denis Welch in From Our Archive
Issue 3346 Listener Plus 17th Jun 2013
The Privy Council is hearing Mark Lundy's appeal to overturn his double murder conviction. In 2004 Denis Welch outlined the case against him.
By Denis Welch in Books
Issue 3815 13th Jun 2013
Gerald Hensley is a self-effacing narrator who ushers us behind the scenes of the great falling out between new Zealand and the united States over nuclear ship visits.
By Denis Welch in Commentary
Issue 3693 19th Feb 2011
Historian and author Judith Binney died last night at her home in Auckland. In August 2010, Denis Welch spoke to Binney about her benchmark book, Encircled Lands, a history of Te Urewera from 1820 to 1921.
By Denis Welch in Commentary
Issue 3665 7th Aug 2010
It's over a century since Prime Minister Richard Seddon ensured legal status for Tuhoe's territory. Yet in 2010, author Judith Binney points out, ownership of the Urewera has still not been settled.
By Denis Welch in Books
Issue 3663 24th Jul 2010
The lending library of a 19th-century sheep station was Lydia Wevers's entrée into not just colonial reading habits, but a farming world that was like a novel in itself.
By Denis Welch in Books
Issue 3659 26th Jun 2010
With his first novel in nearly 15 years, James McNeish is back blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction.
By Denis Welch in Books
Issue 3652 8th May 2010
Even the tiny cracking of an ice cube in a glass has menace in Charlotte Grimshaw's first novel for five years.
By Denis Welch in Books
Issue 3647 3rd Apr 2010
With this novel, Don DeLillo seems to have arguedhimself out of a reason for going on writing.
By Denis Welch in Theatre
Issue 3624 24th Oct 2009
David Hare's static The Vertical Hour is neither coherent nor convincing.