Guest Interviews

Comedian Chris Parker spent lockdown felting away the iso blues on instagram, and now he's making a theatre show out of the experience. Whakarongo mai nei to hear about how his lockdown crafting has ended up in The Auckland Museum AND Te Papa, and grab tickets to 'This is How I Felt' at the Basement theatre! 

Ashleigh Taupaki (Ngāti Hako, Hauraki) is an artist and curator who currently has work on display at Artspace Aotearoa as part of the New Artists Show 2020. Whakarongo mai nei to hear about her art practice, working with her best mate on projects and facilitating cross-institutional crits for BIPOC, Indigenous and LGBTQI+ artists. Tonight you can join Ashleigh on a tour of Karangahape Road gallery spaces for Artweek. 

Brand new and so full of frightening fact it nigh-on serves as a charging document, Gibney, Harutyunyan & Hillinger's Totally Under Control interrogates the US response to Covid-19 and its devastating mistakes, deliberate mis-steps, and six-figure fatalities.

Filmed in secret over the past five months, with damning testimony from public health officials and hard investigative reporting, Rachel talks to the three directors about their quest to expose a system-wide collapse and a profound dereliction of Presidential leadership. Grunty, bleak, unmissable stuff - belt in.

National Manager for Enrolment & Community Engagement, Mandy Bohte, of the Electoral Commission dials in to give us a guide on voting. What your voting for, how MMP works, voting on the Māori role, and what to do if you haven't enrolled.