We had the honour of premiering a beautiful new recording from Dudley Benson on today's show, ahead of the 7" release on Thursday. We also aired a couple from the latest release out of the always great Duppy Gun stable and new faves from Zorlock Compressor and Elijah Minnelli.
Winter is coming, and so is a projected increase in respiratory illnesses and COVID cases. Schools are particularly notorious breeding grounds for such diseases with children being more susceptible to respiratory illnesses.
Ultimately, this results in teachers also being subject to COVID and respiratory illnesses at a higher rate than other professions, and an increased number of teachers leaving the profession due to long COVID symptoms is worsening Aotearoa’s already severe teacher shortage.
For this week’s Get Action! Oto spoke to Tara Forde from Aotearoa Covid Action, to discuss a petition of hers calling for the government to prevent the spread of COVID in our schools by making improvements to school air quality and improving accessibility to Booster Vaccines and Rapid Antigen Tests.
If you'd like to sign this petition, you can find it here:
Delve headlong into the world of DJ Samuel Harmony and his record collection. $1 - $1000 records given equal treatment and airtime. For all that's good in Boogie, Disco, House, Afro, Modern Soul, AOR & much much more.
So lovely to be back in the studio with you. Refamiliarising myself with the controls. As always a bit of everything thrown into the mix. Hope you had a lovely morning.
This week's a e s t h e t i c is dusty desert tunes, tropical synths, soul and exotica - classic old Zambo stuff. It's a Brazil - Italy - Africa axis of power, world domination by beats.
Kris arrives directly from the record store with six $1 records, Rob is looking forward to the Tottenham Hotspur clash with Auckland FC at Eden Park on 26 July, and the boys are joined throughout by none other than former 95bFM News & Editoral Director Lillian Hanley! All thanks to Hallertau!
Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei joins The Wire host Amanda Jane Robinson to talk about the Greens' initial party list and the US air strikes in Syria.
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