Alice Worsley Show <link>http://www.planetaudio.org.nz/alice-worsley-show</link> In this short series, Alice Worsley chats with an international array of authors.  Books and authors make for entertaining listening. Here’s a chance to hear from a handful of favourite storytellers, poets, motivators and autobiographers. Thomas Keneally https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW11483Keneally_20081222220329.mp3 Australian author of Schindler's Ark, American Scoundrel, Betany's Book and many other, Keneally talks to Alice about his life as an author, including his encounters with Hollywood. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:10:00 +1200 Lisa Blaker - Darfur https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW22064Blaker_20081222221537.mp3 The New Zealand nurse whose work in Darfur moved her to tell the world of events in the Sudan, the work of the Red Cross and her work as a nurse in the world's cruelest settings. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200 Dr. David Kuhl - Palliative care https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW17796Khul_20081222221435.mp3 Alice speaks with the author of "What Dying People Want - practical wisdom for the end of life." They discuss how to overcome the conspiracy of silence around death and dying, about emotions and communication, about facing death and embracing life. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200 Mark Inglis - Mountaineer https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW20846Inglis_20081222221456.mp3 Mountain climber, sportsman, amputee. Mark Inglis lost his legs to Aorangi/Mt. Cook and went on to climb Everest. He talks with Alice about his book "Legs on Everest and his charity work with amputees in Asia. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200 Anthony Horowitz https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW14623Horowitz_20081222220933.mp3 Prolific children's writer, screen writer and playwright, Horowitz shares some of the fun and horror with Alice. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200 Charles and Elizabeth Handy https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW12923Handy_20081222220350.mp3 A former oil executive and economist Handy - author of the Age of Unreason, Gods of Management, Beyond Certainty, the Age of Paradox and many others, talks about his book the The Elephant and the Flea. He uses his career as a telling example of how the nature of work has changed over the past 20 years and together with wife Elizabeth discusses work in the mature years. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200 Alexander McCall-Smith https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW14550McCSmith_20081222220913.mp3 The charming and whimsical author of titles such as The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, and Portuguese Irregular Verbs, McCall-Smith chats with Alice about his most beloved creations from the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200 Jenny Patrick https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW13126Patrick_20081222220411.mp3 New Zealand author Jenny Patrick is a children's writer and jeweller, but has won thousands of fans with her adult novels, Landings (based on the Whanganui River and The Denniston Rose (set on the West Coast). She talks to Alice about how she was captured by Denniston and the characters that settled in this inhospitable location. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200 Jackie French https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW17023French_20081222221415.mp3 Jackie French is both dyslexic and prolific - the author of 120 publications including books on gardening, weeds, chooks, wombats, sci-fi and children's books. She talks to Alice about her book "Rocket Your Child into Reading" and about her work with re-naturalising injured wild animals. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200 Rachel Goodchild - Country Women https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW22060Gdchild_20081222221516.mp3 In the past few decades there's been a social revolution on New Zealand farms as farming women throw off their traditional roles as cooks, wives and domestic providers, and join the men in working on the land. Teacher, mother of 3, Rachel talks about her book "She'll be Right - country women battling the odds". Inspiring stories of the achievements of rural women. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200 Les Murray - Poet https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW14178Murray_20081222220852.mp3 Solitary child, wit, intellectual, the Bard of Bunyah is a much-awarded Australian poet who has published some 30 volumes of poetry and two verse novels. Recipent of the Order of Australia, he talks with Alice about his life and inspirations. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200 Janet Turner-Hospital https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW15566THospital_20081222220954.mp3 Alice talks with Janet about Due Preparations for the Plague, which won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award in 2003, the Davitt Award from Sisters in Crime for "best crime novel of the year by an Australian woman�, and was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Award. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200 Pat Cavendish-O'Neil https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW13638CavONeil_20081222220831.mp3 Pat Cavendish O'Neill was born into a world of enormous riches, eccentricity and intrigue in colonial Africa. She tells Alice how it all changed for her when she was presented with a tiny lion cub - her beloved Tana and how her passion for animals became a driving force in her life. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200 Te Radar https://plfm01s1.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/AW62Radar_20081222221958.mp3 A Man, A Plan and A Paddock. Alice has a very entertaining chat with Te Radar about his experiment in sustainability that was conducted for a television series and is now reported in a book. Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +1200