Jess plays new tracks by Arcade Fire, Grouper, Jay Som, Homeshake and many more. She talks about Nervous Jerk and ONONO for Main Centered. Bobandii (Silas) comes into studio to talk about his latest album, Of The Forest, for Long Player.
Jess is back and plays new tracks by Ty Segall, Homeshake, Toro y Moi and many more. She talks about Coyote (Dunedin) and Hybrid Rose (Wellington) for Main Centered. Dalyan RD also joins Jess in the studio for Long Player.
Jess brings the latest tracks by Jay Som, JJ Doom, Sui Zhen, Wurld Series and many more. For Main Centered, Jess introduces Cody Matthews and Robots In Love. Auckland musician, Kraus, talks about his album, Grip The Moon, for Long Player.
New tracks by Kane Strang, Laura Marling, Father John Misty and many more. For Main Centered, Jess introduces DJ PHLUFFEEDYCE (Dunedin) and Strange Stains (Wellington). She's joined by Auckland band, Host Club, for Long Player talking about their album, 'Total Health, Total Health'.
Greater Auckland (formerly know as Transport Blog) are criticising Auckland Transport’s preferred option for inner city bus routing. They say the plan is bad not only for buses and congestion, but also for business as a whole in the center city. The Wire producer Adam Jacobson speaks with Greater Auckland Editor, Matthew Lowrie, to learn more about what he thinks is wrong with Auckland Transport’s plan.
This week, Tess, Ben and Reuben chat to a Alex Johnston from Fossil Free UoA about the protests on campus, we also have our weekly chat with Green Party's James Shaw about the 2017 budget. We have our usual weekly feature, Southern Cross with Kendall Hutt from AUT's Pacific media center. Ben Chats to charity lawyer Sue Barker. He also speaks to Peter Thompson, a media lecturer from Victoria University. All of this and more on the full podcast here.
Dr. Maria talks to us about the part biopic, part reconstruction, part pack-of-fibs that is Becoming Bond. The odd doco/bio hybrid centers on the Bond film canon's only single shot 007 player, the Australian car mechanic turned model George Lazenby. Narrated by Lazenby himself, how did Maria enjoy a film on the man Dame Diana Rigg once described as: "...obsess[ed] with himself ...utterly, unbelievably ... bloody impossible"?
Dr. Maria talks to us about the packet of amber soaked weirdness that is Neruda. The odd bio/noir/farce hybrid centers on fascist police chief Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal) as he searches for fugitive communist poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) in a cartoonish game of cat and mouse. The 2016 film comes widely acclaimed, but Maria... is it any good?
The situation on Manus Island is worsening by the week. The detainees have locked themselves in the center and are refusing to leave, while food and medicine are being denied to them by authorities. Many are calling the situation a humanitarian crisis, with the UN and other international NGOs, shocked at the treatment of the detainees by the Australian Government. The New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is offering to take 150 of the detainees, however, the Australian Government has turned down the offer. Sam Smith spoke to commentator Tracey Barnett about the situation as it stands.
Those cherry blossoms are the absolute highlight of Mikey's weekend and he can't wait to tell His Worship about it all. Squeezing that in with all the other issues Mike wants to cover this morning, including PWC, ACC, the Aotea center, and some big cranes.
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