This week on the Green Desk, Frances Wright speaks with Sarah McFadden, the General Manager at Kelmarna Gardens. They speak about the growth of the Kelmarna farm space over the years, local food systems, and how keeping it local keeps waste as low as possible. Whakarongo mai!
On this weeks show: Callum interviews legendary NZ director Vincent Ward ahead of a rare 35mm screening of his film Map of the World (1992) at the Hollywood Avondale. That's the headline. Oh, and he also counts down the biggest songs of the week, as well as tracks from Daft Punk, Clio, Barrie and Todd Terje.
Big fa'amalosi to the Toa Samoa Rugby League team for getting second in the world! We celebrate by playing some classic Samoan tunes that you may of heard being played out loud in the past few weeks. Also congratulations to former guest on the show Te KuraHuia for taking out the Peoples Choice Award at the SRN awards over the weekend.
We couldn't let him rest until we spoke about him, Cardnell Pell and the strict rules some high up in the Catholic order need to live by on this week's agenda of That's The Spirit: with our spiritual minder - Peter Lineham.
We have Allan Blackman on for Dear Science, Beth speaks with Chloe Swarbrick about the Climate Change Budget slash. Milly speaks with Adam Craigie who is involved with the ongoing Auckland University staff strikes. Milly also spoke with Xavier Bolsh from Unite Unions regarding hospitality workers rights and wider union issues, and finally Milly speaks with Alister Gates regarding the mankind project giving men the space to collaborate and foster better mental health.
In their first weekly interview of this year, Emilia Sullivan chats with Green Party co-leader James Shaw about Chris Hipkins’ so-called policy bonfire, the debate around mitigation and adaptation policies, and the importance of amplifying the youth voice in politics.
This week on The Green Desk, reporter Jack Marshall speaks with PhD student and researcher Sophia Volzke about her latest paper looking into the lives of southern elephant seals and the problems of polyamory.
This week on Dear Science Allan Blackman joins the Tuesday Wire team in the studio to discuss accidental scientific discoveries! Accidents from scientists licking thier fingers to find new artificial sweetners, to Uranium being left in drawers, all the way to the worlds first antibiotic, we are delved into the world of the most wonderful accidents in the lab that changed science forever.
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