
SLANZA Sessions
MPR - Manawatu People's Radio
4.8from 6 ratings
- 80
- Episodes
- 50
- Transcribed
- 6
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About SLANZA Sessions
Welcome Library lovers to SLANZA SESSIONS, a radio show and podcast to celebrate school libraries, and all of the people who inhabit them. Local Manawatū school librarians Alan Dingley, Sasha Eastwood and Chris Auer, will be bringing you interviews, reviews, views and more. We want to share our love of books for youth and young people, and our passion for school libraries. We will be asking questions and seeking answers about how we can all ensure the School Library maintains its valuable place in the NZ literacy and education landscape.
- Publisher
- MPR - Manawatu People's Radio
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Jan 2023
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
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Episode 80 - Looking back, Looking forward

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Episode 80 - Looking back, Looking forward
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it's basically, so I'm going to do like a Manchester Street School adaption of that. So it's basically, we want our students to leave our kura having read what we consider essential read. So there'll be a set of, I don't know, just throwing it out there, like 20 picture books that we think that we want our students to be exposed to. So the goodies, plus some newbies, plus making sure that we've got some New Zealand content in there. And just so that... when they are moving on to other schools, they'll go, oh, that's right, I do remember that book. Or, you know, things like, you know, in the picture books, there'll be things like, you know, Harry McCleary, The Hungry Caterpillar, you know, some classics, plus some new stuff, plus some New Zealand stuff. […]
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