Anna talks to legal scholar Melanie about the legal framework for censorship in Aotearoa | New Zealand, whether filthy historical novel Fanny Hill is worth reading and if a sense of politesse would be the best way to regulate speech.

Stephanie and Anna talk about pen names, historical fiction and how having a play performed is like being a god.

Anna talks with Tim Heath about performance poetry, punctuation and how writing a poem is like falling in love

Anna and Jos Franks talk about spaces for women to raise their voices, what it means to arrange a song and how the bookshop moved Jos from step one to step two of her SHE choir Auckland journey.

Anna and Hayden Glass talk about the value of art, spaces to be human in, and how Hayden came to own The Open Book.

Anna and Julie Fry talk about hard books, kids' books and the joy of co-owning a bookshop

Anna talks with Sophie van Waardenberg about Love Actually, the human uses of poetry and the bucket of the mind.

Anna and Cian Dennan talk about politics and poetry, the beautiful/brutal aspects of owning a vagina and bringing light.

Trigger warning: sexual abuse, heavy duty swearing.

Anna and Irene Corbett talk about the word as a tool, art that does service, dementia, religion and rollerblading.

Anna chats to Alex about one long flow of manstuff, stealing stuff and the sensation of composition.