In a follow-up to last week, Neutral Corner examines the contrasting coverage given to US-led strikes in Syria by CNN and PressTV, with a cold open by Alex Jones.
This Day in History looks at the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Phillipines, which led to the overthrow of President Ferdinand Marcos, who had for around a decade ruled the country as an effective dictator.
This Day in History takes us back to 1963, for the militant deployment of the Birmingham police department against an anti-segregationist march led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
The Commerce Commsion's decision to sue Wilson Parking over a Wellington City monopoly has led to discussions on fair parking prices for consumers. Bailley spoke to Head of Research at Consumer NZ Jessica Wilson to talk about the concentration of service providers for consumers
Heidi and Prairie catch up with museum curator, Tharron Bloomfield and baber Marnie Pou Te Rata. As a museum curator, perhaps taking more of a view of what a practice and its objects tell us about a culture and our world, we talk about Marnie's barbering practice and the adventures it has led to, including a stint with a business in The Netherlands, as a living artform.
Recent government funding towards a meth rehabiliation programme, led in part by the Mongrel Mob, has caused some outrage. Noah Ferguson-Dudding spoke to National MP Christopher Luxon about New Zealand's meth rehabiliation programmes, and how the government and police should interact with gangs.
They also discussed the Local Government conference taking place, and the government's Three Waters reform proposal.
Hinke Osinga is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Auckland. She is an international expert in dynamical systems theory, the mathematical analysis of behaviour that changes with time. Hinke's research unexpectedly led her into craft and art when she turned her computer-generated images of chaotic behaviour into an intriguing crocheted object that embodies unpredictability in a hands-on way.
At WOMAD, Frances caught up with Professor Osinga to talk about her work.
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