Sound Salad Podcast

Today we’re speaking with a woman I admire hugely, she’s a powerhouse of productivity and advocacy and action and she’s always got time for sending the elevator down to help other writers at all levels of their creative journeys. She is many many things, public speaker, workshop facilitator, genius behind the Writing Room, but is primarily a screenwriter. Her credits include Fresh Eggs, The Tender Trap, Under the Vines, My Life is Murder and the Cul de Sac - to name a few. I’ll let her fill you in on the rest, welcome to the show Kathryn!

"We’ve got a lot yet to tell, and see, and watch and listen to in this country. There’s such a lot more to tell." This week I chat with Martin Crump. Martin Crump is a writer, broadcaster and MC, and (among many other things) one of Barry’s Boys. His feature book, In Search of the Great Kiwi Yarn (2007), is a collection of thematically linked Kiwi stories that he claims he never even knew he could write, least of all deliver. But with his literary lineage, it was a shoo-in, and there were plenty of other projects that followed....

Pip McKay is our next guest on Sound Salad, and one of our first authors! She self published her novel 'The Telling Time' over lockdown in 2020 and has won numerous awards since, featured at multiple events through our Writer's Festival circuit and has already developed her ideas towards a sequel. She's an awesome new addition to our literary sphere here, and isn't afraid to ask the hard questions about culture, sense of belonging and self in NZ as an immigrant, the places we find ourselves hunting for that sense of belonging, and where we sit as women in that exploration. Thanks for the chat Pip, we look forward to the next one! :)

This week our first narrator interview is with an amazing New Zealand actor, musical director, and vocal mimic, the artistically and musically adroit Paul Barrett chats to us about the role of the narrator in bringing a story to life for an auditory audience

‘We turn pages, they press buttons.’ This week my guest is Josh Nathan. Josh figured out at university that audio engineering was what he was going to focus his energies on, and has been a keen listener of all manner of recordings since. Beginning with the ‘sound side’ of music, (not surprising given his influential Uncle happened to be the drummer of iconic Kiwi reggae band ‘Herbs,’) he was looking to extend his engineering portfolio, when he saw that BLVNZ (Blind + Low Vision NZ) were advertising for a role...