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INTERVIEW: Murdoch Stephens on Rat King Landlord Publication by Candice Clark on Radio One 91FM Dunedin
A recording of the launch of Rat King Landlord at the Palmerston North City Library, featuring an interview between Geordie Rogers of Renters Unite! and the author Murdoch Stephens, as well as a series of poetry readings from the collection "More Than A Roof".
Interviews with NZ writers and poets, visiting authors from around the world and news of local events
The upcoming Booktown event in Featherston in the Wairarapa has invited three publishers to talk about their experiences in an event called Taking a Publishing Punt. Today Lynn Freeman gets a taste of what Ash Davida Jane from We Are Babies Press, Murdoch Stephens of Lawrence & Gibson Publishing, and Chris Holdaway of Compound Press will be discussing.
The Panel speaks to Murdoch Stephens, author of Rat King Landlord, for his response.
The two new cases of Covid-19 identified in the Auckland community last night are the South African variant which is more infectious. The Panel speaks to Professor Michael Plank from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Principal Investigator at Te Pūnaha Matatini about the latest developments. Rents soared after the Government's restriction on rental increases in response to Covid-19 was lifted last year. The Panel speaks to Murdoch Stephens, author of Rat King Landlord, for his response. MediaWorks has axed fill-in Magic Talk host John Banks over comments he and a listener made about Māori. The panellists share their views on the situation.
This is a recording of an event that took place at Unity Books on 14 October 2020. Thanks to Eamonn Marra for the recording.
A new novel about a flat, a rat, and a nationwide movement against the landlord-tenant model has come from the pen of Murdoch Stephens. Under the pseudonym Richard Meros, he wrote the popular satirical book and stageplay On the conditions and Possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her Young Lover. Rat King Landlord, the novel that bears his real name, also has a strong political side to it. Murdoch Stephens reads from Rat King Landlord and talks with Lynn Freeman about landlords and "rat kings".
Murdoch talks to Perrine and Laura about life in a local publishing collective - creating their place in the literary scene through biting satire and flirting with all the wrong people.
26 August 2016 | WORD Christchurch Festival With migration and war so much in the news, and questions being asked about our own refugee quota, we discover the real faces behind the headlines. Meet just a few of the many people to whom Christchurch has opened its doors, and hear their stories. How did they come to be here? What situation in their own country drove them away? With special guests Dr Hassan Ibrahim and Abbas Nazari, and input from Murdoch Stephens of Doing Our Bit, in conversation with Donna Miles-Mojab. Supported by All Right.
Laura and Martin discuss New Zealand's refugee quota with Murdoch Stephens from Doing Our Bit. The Government announced in May 2016 that the refugee quota would increase from 750 to 1000 in 2018. Murdoch explains why NZ could still do far more.
Murdoch Stephens is a writer an activist and is behind the 'Doing Our Bit' campaign to double New Zealand's refugee quota. He claims the only things he loves are the things that make him depressed, but listening to him talk about the Kerala Vadu Mango and Bengali Mixed Veg pickles from Mothers Recipe Brand we know thats not true.