Listen back to feature interviews and performances from the 95bFM Breakfast Show. Weekly features (such as Loose Reads or Travelling Tunes) all have their own feeds, so to listen or subscribe, pick and choose from the bCasts list on the right.
bRave is back! Head along to The Mothership on 1 March for bRave III with yet-to-be-announced DJs. Listen back to hear Jonny's chat with Serena Stevenson about the Splore documentary Three Days in February, listen back for the Aural Emporium, and Billy Strings will be playing his debut Aotearoa show this July at Spark Arena.
ICYMI - Jonny chats to Tom of local punk legends Guardian Singles about their fundraiser gig to head to SXSW later in the year, plus Ready Steady Learn with Mia-Mae Taitimu-Stevens thanks to Waipapa Taumata Rau - The University of Auckland, and a highlight of Hunter's kōrero with Finn from The Veils on Short Player.
Featuring a first spin of Marlon William's new waiata Aua Atu Rā of his forthcoming album Te Whare Tīwakawaka and an interview with Italian clown Andy Spigola ahead of the Auckland Buskers Festival 2025. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Dustin Lau - A Love Language
Emma Paki - System Virtue
Sampology - Ten Foot Flowers (Glass Beams Desert Flower Edition)
The Kinks - David Watts
The Liminanas - El Beach
Snoop Dogg - Gin & Juice
Elroy - The Other
Hotline - Let's Merge
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
TE KAAHU - I Roto I Te Poo, I Roto I Te Ao
The Desert Sessions - Rickshaw
Misfits - TV Casualty
Misfits - Bullet
Calibre & DRS - Living For
Marlon Williams - Aua Atu Rā
Romi Wrights - Capsized
Joe Goddard - Progress
CHAII - Safar
TWEN - Damsel
Jack J - Wrong Again
Wax Eye - co-worker
LTJ Bukem - Watercolours
LTJ Bukem - Horizons
Ravyn Lenae - One Wish (feat. Childish Gambino)
Jaz Paterson & Junus Orca - Body Electric
New Candys - Everything's Fucking Boring feat. Bugo
Featuring an interview with Sweetpants ahead of Dirt Disco on Waiheke and Ready Steady Learn with Sam McKay thanks to the University of Auckland. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Muito Kaballa - Like A River
Split System - Alone Again
Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky
CHAII - Safar
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Jane's Addiction - Three Days
Heartless Bastards - Revolution
Manudigital - Don't Call Me Local (feat. Queen Omega)
Hot Chip - Over and Over
Jamie XX - All You Children (ft. The Avalanches)
Joe Kaptein - Unwavering
Japanese Breakfast - Orlando in Love
Papillon - Guylana
Roger Robinson - There's No Recession in a Rich Man's House
Featuring Fashun with Penelope Noir, a guest interview with UK comedian Jack Whitehall ahead of his (and his Dad's) Auckland show this weekend, and Loose Reads with Suri thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Royel Otis - Kool Aid
Shonen Knife - Catnip Dream
Waxahatchee - Right Back to it
Lovebirds - Want you in my soul
Ingrid and the Ministers - Lose It All
Grecco Romank - Asbestos Tarot
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
Wooden Shjips - ruins
The Auras - Islands in the Sea
Jaz Paterson & Junus Orca - Body Electric
AJA - Kōpere
The Heavy Heavy - Feel
Barry Adamson - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Beastie Boys - No Sleep Til Brooklyn
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)
Ex-Easter Island Head - Norther
Electric Orange - erebus
Goat + MC Yallah - Nimerudi
Kelis - Hooch
Ezra Collective - No One's Watching Me (feat. Olivia Dean)
Dr Thomas Gregory is the co-head of the Masters of Conflict and Terrorism Studies programme in the school of Political Science and International Relations. Dr Gregory spoke to Jonny about his research into civilian casualties during the two-decade spanning conflict and occupation of Afghanistan by the western coalition led by the U.S. This research has culminated in a book Weaponizing Civilian Protection recently published by the Oxford University Press.