Sherry continues her report on Banter Gebang, South East Asia’s largest landfill and home to 3,000 families. She visit the landfill as part of her journalism placement in Indonesia, Jakarta over the summer. This week, she talks to Resa Boenard, the founder of BGBJ, the school on Bantar Gebang. Ibu Rastinah, one of the women who work at the plastic sorting companies on the landfill, and the children of the class she helped out with.
Dr. Maria Walls returns after her psychedelic trance into Mandy, Nicolas Cage's latest endeavour. Where horror melts with heavy metal, scored by Johann Johannsson, the film narrates a trip that takes a turn for the worst after the Red Miller's partner gets kidnapped by cultists. If this thriller is spooky enough for Maria, then it's spooky enough for us, right?
Mandy Hager recently released her new book about Aotearoa's history of protest. Titled "Protest! Shaping Aotearoa", it delves into important social justice, human rights, and environmental movements that have shaped the country today.
Louis spoke to author Mandy Hager about the book and how we can learn from previous protest movements.
Flicks.co.nz's Editor, Steve Newall, pops in to preview the NZIFF quiz night and Nicholas Cage's new horror, Mandy. Think you know films? Take the quiz and find out. And 95bFM's Johnny Vahry reviews Brimstone and Glory, a beautiful, cinematic, fireworks display that documents the week-long celebration of San Juan de Dios. A film about fireworks, Mikey's excited.
An Auckland protest group has been organising demonstrations against the now former President of South Korea, Park Geun-Hye. Previously they were calling for her to be resign, but despite her being impeached last week - effectively ending her presidency - the demonstrations aren’t done just yet.
Producer Mack Smith spoke to April Rin Kwak, one of the organisers and participants in these protests. He began by asking her why she decided to get involved.
This week on Green Desk Mitch speaks to Sophie Barclay and Mandy Patmore about
Community Waitakere’s project on the pekapeka tou roa. In an attempt to create a better
understanding about the pekapeka tou roa including their presence and behaviour in West
Auckland, Community Waitakere ran a project which has enabled the pekapeka to be radio
tracked. To raise more awareness and share information on the pekapeka, Community
Waitakere is hosting an exhibition on the 31 st of October which will showcase work by
environmental artists and share information about the pekapeka tou roa. Mitch and Sophie
discuss the findings of their research as well as the threats they are facing before chatting to
Mandy about her work as an environmental artist and the exhibition itself. To begin,
Mitchell asks Sophie to exactly what the pekapeka tou roa is.
💚 Kia ora lovelies. The second show of 2024 features music from all walks and eras. A plethora of new cuts with some old favoruites thrown in too.
We also feature unreleased tracks from Jefferson Chen for the This Room is an Island interactive performance debuting February 2nd-4th. And an unreleased track from local up-and-coming house producer DJ Name.
As is always the case, the spotify playlist for this show lives here. 💚 See you next week.
Animal advocacy group SAFE has launched a new campaign raising awareness of bobby calf deaths in the dairy industry. Mack hears from spokesperson Mandy Carter about the research behind it.
Rob fills in the other Plato's Retreat boys on the Dingle code, Dingle drama, and the re-appearance of Mandy Dingle...along with the unmasking of Wolf Bear!
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