Paul Diamond

Paul Diamond with his three top reads from 2020: He Pukapuka TÄtaku i NgÄ Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui / A Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha by Ross Calman (Auckland University Press, $59.99) A… Audio

Paul Diamond reviews Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde by Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima. This book is published by Massey University Press. Audio

Paul Diamond reviews Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Save Australia by Victor Steffenson, published by Explore Australia Publishing. Audio

It's one of the Big Three European Film Festivals, along with the fiercely business-like Cannes Festival, and the more high-minded Venice one. Audio

From Maori origin stories to te reo thrash metal - a new exhibition is canvassing Maori performance over the centuries. Pukana: moments in Maori performance at the National Library in Wellington… Audio

Newspaper cartoonists job is to cast a critical eye on what’s going on and sum it up in images that can be understood at a glance at that time. But author Paul Diamond tells Colin Peacock cartoons… Audio, Gallery

Paul Diamond is a writer, journalist, historian and broadcaster. He'll talk about his new book Savaged to Suit: Maori and Cartooning in New Zealand as well as his favourite books, music and films.  Audio, Gallery

Former Whanganui mayor Charles Mackay, who served six years in prison for shooting a man who was blackmailing him, was the first New Zealander to come out as homosexual, says Wellington historian Paul… Audio, Gallery

"I do travel for eros. Eros isn't he same thing as sex. It's the sense of being sensually present in someone's eyes, and their being sensually present in yours; and of giving pleasure and receiving… Audio