{"podcast":{"title":"The Marlborough Book Festival","slug":"the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437","podcast_index_feed_id":6717437,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/marlboroughbookfestival/feed.xml","website_url":"https://marlboroughbookfestival.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2239129/MBF_2025_final_colour-1_books7qbr2.png","author":"The Marlborough Book Festival","episode_count":81,"summary":"The Marlborough Book Festival is an annual readers and writers festival held in July in Marlborough, New Zealand. Listen to our podcasts to hear discussions with our featured writers, as they explain the challenges and the highlights of creating their various works and their lives as writers.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437"},"episode":{"title":"Lauren Keenan - Time Travellers Guide to History","slug":"lauren-keenan-time-travellers-guide-to-history","published_at":"2025-11-06T23:32:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437/lauren-keenan-time-travellers-guide-to-history","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437","url":"https://marlboroughbookfestival.podbean.com/e/lauren-keenan-time-travellers-guide-to-history/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fijis69kerufagqp/Lauren_Keenan_mixdown_loudnessbn5gs.mp3","summary":"Lauren Keenan in conversation with Tania Miller How can adults help spark children’s interest in Aotearoa New Zealand history? Lauren often gets asked this question and it is a subject close to her heart. Lauren talks to Tania about making history accessible and interesting to young readers and the special nature of writing for the middle reader audience. The conversation is pitched at an adult festival audience, but the middle reader in your life is also welcome, accompanied by an adult. Lauren's middle reader books are Amorangi and Millie’s Trip Through Time and its sequel Rimu: The Tree of Time. They follow two siblings who time travel back through their family tree and witness events in New Zealand history, including the invasion of Parihaka, the Great Depression, World War Two, the Musket Wars, and the eruption of Mount Taranaki. The siblings also experience changes in their town and landscape, the attitudes of people, and the way people live their lives.","meta_description":"Lauren Keenan in conversation with Tania Miller How can adults help spark children’s interest in Aotearoa New Zealand history? Lauren often gets asked thi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3734,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437/episodes/lauren-keenan-time-travellers-guide-to-history/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437/lauren-keenan-time-travellers-guide-to-history.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}