The Marlborough Book Festival

The beer geek and the winemaker

Is beer pong an Olympic sport? What does beer made with stag semen taste like? Author of How To Have A Beer Alice Galletly provides answers to such pressing questions and offers tips on how to get the most out of every glass of beer, in conversation with wine maker Ben Glover at the 2017 Marlborough Book Festival. 

Dame Anne Salmond in conversation with Peter Jerram

Dame Anne Salmond makes history intriguing, exciting and highly relevant. An eminent anthropologist, historian, writer and environmentalist, Anne shares her understanding of the Māori experience and how it shapes us all as New Zealanders.

As Marlborough prepares to celebrate 250 years since Cook first visited the region, local author Peter Jerram, a long-time Cook enthusiast, spoke with Anne about two of her incredibly detailed and gripping books, Two Worlds, Between Worlds, and The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, Captain Cook in the South Seas onboard the Marlborough Tour Company’s MV Odyssea in the Queen Charlotte Sound.

Long form journalism panel

Four of New Zealand's leading journalists - Mike White, Nikki Macdonald, Naomi Arnold and Charles Anderson - discuss how they tell stories in depth in an age of clickbait, and the role of new story-telling techniques and the ressurgence of  podcasts.