Beth caught up with musician Ewan Collins about his experience composing for Red Mole: A Romance, a documentary about 1970s alternative Aotearoa theatre group Red Mole.
Today on Breakfast Rachel is joined by Producer Lou while Stella moves house: Dr Lara Greaves gives us some Political Commentary about the closure of Newshub, the dissolution of the Maori Health Authority and the Gang Patch Ban. Lucinda Bennett chats all things pub snacks on Breakfast Food. Leonard Powell visits the studio to chat about his new album 'slow mover'. Jim chats about spring bulbs in Greening Out with Jim, and last but not Charlie Underhill joins the studio to chat about Lunar Collaborative's Auckland Pride Festival event, Cowboy Dreaming. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Yirinda - Galangoor Baya (Welcome)
Warpaint - Common Blue
Nourished by Time - Hand On Me
Mdou Moctar - Funeral For Justice
Joy Orbison - Flight FM
Hiatus Kaiyote - Everything's Beautiful
Sleater-Kinney - Untidy Creature
Oceans Before Me (Mara TK and Troy Kingi) - RAAHAPA
Grecco Romank - 2 Hot 2 Hunt
Black Country, New Road - Chaos Space Marine
Leonard Powell - Parallel Parking Phobia
Leonard Powell - Lucky
Caroline Polachek - Butterfly Net feat. Weyes Blood
Yesterday, Newshub, one of Aotearoa's largest commercial newsrooms, announced it is shutting down.
Up to three hundred people, including journalists and support staff, are expected to lose their jobs
News and Editorial Director, Jessica Hopkins, spoke to Senior Lecturer Communication Studies and Head of Journalism at AUT, Greg Treadwell, about what this indicates about the state of journalism in Aotearoa.
University of Auckland Doctoral Candidate, Cristal Salatas, is developing a geographic information system map and dataset aimed at reducing the prevalence of premature birth in Aotearoa.
News and Editorial Director, Jessica Hopkins, started off the interview by asking Salatas about her research.
Caeden spoke to Labour Deputy Leader, Carmel Sepuloni, about the government increasing benefit sanctions and scrapping Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority.
Producer Jasmine reported on the reaction to the government passing legislation under urgency to dis-establish the Māori Health Authority.
News and Editorial Director, Jessica Hopkins, spoke to Head of Journalism at AUT Greg Treadwell about the closure of NewHub.
And she spoke to Doctoral Candidate, Cristal Salatas, about her research aimed at reducing the prevalence of premature birth in Aotearoa.