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Write On is hosted by Beverly Martens, a Dunedin-based writer and founder of Dunedin Literary Walking Tours. In each show, Beverly interviews local writers and people involved in the book industry. She also promotes local events and shares some good music. Write On with Beverly Martens is presented on behalf of the Otago Southland Branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors and has been created with generous support from the University Book Shop.
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Hello and welcome to Wives & Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly. Wives and Knives was created in early 2020 when we discovered that we, a like minded group of general weirdos had a mutual interest in true crime. It started as a weekly zoom call during lock down and has developed into this! We love researching and creating this content and hope you enjoy listening. Instagram - wivesandknivesthepod Twitter - @KnivesWives Facebook -Wives & Knives pod. Email us Wivesandkniv ...
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Interviewing Southern writers - This month I chat with Kathryn Van Beek (one of the editors) and Carolijn Guytonbeck (one of the contributors) to "OTHERHOOD" an important new anthology of essays by women who for a myriad of reasons are NOT mothers in the traditional, societally-expected sense.Then I catch up with acclaimed Central Otago children's …
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In-depth interviews with NZ writers and their work - This month Beverly chats with prolific author Karen McMillan, about her new historical romance ('Turbulent Threads') set in Victorian Dunedin.Then she has an in-depth catch up with 2024 Burns' Fellow, Mikaela Nyman (who writes in both English and Swedish) about her creative priorities for the yea…
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Creatives involved in the Dunedin Fringe Festival - My first guest is Professional Theatre Maker Cindy Diver, who is directing 'LAVVIES2' in this year's Festival. We chat about the show's specifics plus the challenges of presenting it in a non-theatre space. Then we delve back into some of the highlights of Cindy's 30+ year creative career - such a…
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News and views about local writers - This month Beverly chats with the exec director of the Michel King Writers' Centre, Jan McEwen, about the beautiful Signalman's Cottage in Devonport where the Centre is based, the various writers' residencies the Centre offers, along with the wider opportunities to also stay and write there as a visiting writer.…
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This month Beverly chats with UBS Emerging Writer in Residence, and poet-activist, Dr April-Rose Geers about the complex creative nonfiction memoir she will be working on while in Dunedin. Then, later in the show, Beverly chats with out-going 2023 Burns' Fellow Kathryn Van Beek who reflects on the highs, lows, challenges (and pressures) of this uni…
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Interviewing Local Writers - This month Beverly talks with regional historian and journalist Ian Dougherty, who has written over 30 books about local figures, families and organisations, including his latest updated book: The Steepest Street in the World... Baldwin Street here in Dunedin.This is followed by a chat with UBS's Retail Manager, Anna Ho…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hello lovely listeners, we hope you are all keeping safe and well out there. This weeks episode is one we recorded just before Christmas and as we did it remotely, Dani sounds tinny as fuck, we hope you can forgive that. 🖤 D&K xxThe case …
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hello everybody. As always we hope you are all keeping safe & well out there. 🖤 D&K xxx The sound is a bit dodgy in places, not sure what’s happened, probably down to the connection; we had to record virtually this week. In this weeks epi…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hey there everyone. Apologies for the late upload, it’s been a hectic week. We hope you are all keeping safe & well out there, we are recording again today so hopefully you’ll get an episode out at the usual time too. 🖤 D&K xxxThis week w…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hey there. Happy New Year! We hope everyone is keeping safe and well out there. Apologies for another impromptu break. We’ve both had a lot of things going on in our lives and as usual a late episode turned into ‘we’ll push it a week’ and…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.A little later than planned but this weeks episode is here. We hope you are all keeping safe and well out there, perhaps starting to feel a little festive. Full disclosure we waffle on for a good ten minutes before getting to the case so …
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hello everyone. Hope you’re all keeping safe and well out there 🖤D&K xxxThis week we have two historical cases for you, the first is a killer family called The Bloody Benders and the second is a miscarriage of justice for Oscar Slater - W…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hello Everybody. Hope you are all keeping safe and well out there. 🖤 D&K xxxFor todays case we’re going over to Germany, and the early 2000’s for a case that puzzled The Police over there for quite some time. This week we are discussing a…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.This week we are discussing a great documentary about the murder of Libby Squire. Dani covers the case and I quickly tell you about two new dramas based on real life crime cases. As always, we appreciate every one of you who gives us a go…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Happy Halloween 🎃 We hope all of our lovely listeners are keeping safe & well out there. This week we’ve got a modern urban legend which inspired a gruesome attack. Dani covers the origins and Myth of Slenderman before taking us through t…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hello everybody. Hope you are all keeping safe & well out there. This week we are talking about the current case and trail of Lucy Letby as well as updating you on a significant development in a case we talked about a while back, missing …
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hi everyone. We hope you are all doing okay out there. This episode was recorded way back at the start of July, before we took our extended break. We have two cases for you, The disappearance of Hannah Upp and the underground support netw…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.The sounds bubbly! Not sure what went on when we recorded this episode, so, fair warning ⚠️ Sound is off at the start and we waffle for a good fifteen minutes at the beginning too. If you want to spare yourself, then skip ahead. If you ca…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hello everybody. Thank you for the warm welcome back last week too. We recorded this episode a while back so some of the cases we discuss at the beginning have had some major developments. 🖤 D&K. xxxThis week we are discussing the complex…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives, a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hey you guys!! How the heck are you? Sincerest apologies for taking an unplanned break from the podcast but a combination of issues forced our hand. We’ve been gone too long, we know. But. We’re back! Dani’s been on her honeymoon and I’ve…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly. Hey Everyone, As always we hope you are keeping safe & well out there. We appreciate every single one of you that gives our little podcast a go and especially those of you who stick around and tune in each week to listen to us. It genuine…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hi everyone. We hope you are keeping safe & well out there. This week we have two cases for you and both have connections to either where we are from or where we live now. Dani covers the case of Annette Wade & Kelly tells us about Mary & …
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hey everybody. Hope you are all keeping safe and well out there. This week we are covering the case of Rachel McLean, who went missing in 1991. 🖤 D&K xxx Please remember that we mean no disrespect to anyone mentioned in this episode, or ac…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly. Hi everyone, we hope you are keeping safe and well out there. This week we are recommending some shows, books and a YouTube channel, all of which are true crime related or themed. If you have any recommendations for us or want to suggest …
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly. Hi everyone, hope you are all keeping safe & well out there. Thank you to you all for coming back each week to support us, it means so much 🖤 D&K xxxThis week we are covering a solved case from the 80’s, the first UK murder were the defen…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.This week we have two mini cases for you. Dani expands on last week’s case by telling us about Terra Lynn Smith and I tell you about one of Finland’s most infamous murders, the case of Kyllikki Saari. Naturally, we waffle on at the start a…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hello everyone, hope you are all keeping alright out there. This week we cover the case of Sherri Pepini, a young wife and mother, who was kidnapped and held captive for 22 days; or was she? Du Du Duh! D&K 🖤 xxxPlease remember that we mean…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly. Hi everyone, we hope you are all doing okay out there. This weeks episode is an unsolved murder from Leigh, the case of Lisa Hession. 🖤 D&K xxxPlease remember that we mean no disrespect to anyone mentioned in this episode, or across any o…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hello everyone, hope you are all keeping safe & well out there. 🖤 D&K xxx This week we have two cases of disability hate crime, Kelly tells us about Lee Irving and Dani talks about Gemma Hayter. Please remember that we mean no disrespect t…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Happy Chocolate Egg Season everyone, we hope you all had a lovely Easter whatever you chose to do. In this week’s episode Dani takes us through the chilling tale of Charlie Brandt. D&K🖤 xxxPlease remember that we mean no disrespect to anyo…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly. We’re back! This week we have an updates and anniversaries episode, including some mini cases too. As always thank you to everyone for giving us a listen and your continued support - Love you 🖤 D&K xxx Please remember that we mean no disr…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hello, Lovely Listeners. We hope you are all keeping safe and well out there. 🖤 D&K xxx This week we are covering some missing persons cases that perhaps aren’t as well known and if they have had coverage it hasn’t always been positive. Pl…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hi everyone, we hope you are all keeping safe and well out there despite the world being an absolute shit show at present. This week we’ve got the case of Tamla Horsford who died whilst attending an adult sleep over/slumber party, Dani tak…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.We hope you are all keeping safe & well out there. This week we have a recommendations episode where we each take you through some true crime ish books, films and TV shows which we have been devouring recently. As always thank you to those…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Hi everyone, hope you’re all keeping safe out there. This week we are in New Zealand as Kelly takes us through the Parker-Hulme murder case from 1954. Thank you to everyone who gives us a listen - we appreciate it so much D&K 🖤 xxx Please …
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.This week we have two cases for you, Dani takes us through the case of Nida Naseer who disappeared from her family home in 2013 and Kelly tells us about Laura Wilson who was murdered by her ex boyfriend. Please remember that we mean no dis…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.Apologies for the spontaneous absence everyone, we had to take some time off due to illness and a house move, but we are back and we have a big case for you. This week Dani tells us about serial fraudster Mark Acklom and how he earns the t…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.This week we are discussing survivors, those that had a very close brush with some infamous killers. As always we hope everyone is doing okay & staying safe out there 🖤 D&K. Please remember that we mean no disrespect to anyone mentioned in…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.G’day, Hope everyone’s doing okay out there. This week we are in Australia with the gruesome case of Ivan Milat, The Backpacker murderer. D&K 🖤xxx Please remember that we mean no disrespect to anyone mentioned in this episode, or across an…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Wives and Knives a true crime podcast with your hosts Dani & Kelly.This week we have two cases for you, first Dani tells us about the alleged ufo related death of Ziggy Adamski and I tell you about the death of Jim Dawson which has a supernatural twist to it. Hope everyone is doing okay out there D&K 🖤 xx…
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