This week Amy chats to Laura about the Cannibis Bill which has just had it's second reading in parliament, the Tax Working Group's potential capital gains tax, and they follow up on Ian Lees-Golloway revoking the residency of Karel Sroubek.
Junior doctors will be striking for the second time this month in response to ongoing disputes regarding the existing employment contract between most junior doctors and District Health Boards. Liv Holdsworth spoke to David Munro from the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association and Earle Savage from a new breakaway union, the Specialty Trainees of New Zealand regarding their views on what's going on.
At Tess's special request, Sam (resident TV expert) investigates True Detective Season 3 but is the world of crime series over-saturated? Can yet another mystery thriller survive? Despite the long episodes, Sam's almost convinced...
So What We Do in the Shadows is back but in a TV series form. And produced in the US. Wowee. But is it any good? Sam Sinnott, our resident binge TV reviewer, is on the case. He reckons it's as funny and wholesome as ever, aww.
Director of Come to Daddy, and Incredibly Strange programmer, Ant Timpson, joins Rachel to talk about what it takes to pick a strange film. And resident fashion expert, Penelope Noir, reviews Halston, Director Frédéric Tcheng's latest portrait of an artist, about the rise and fall of American fashion legend Roy Halston Frowick. Jot these films down in your diary, you don't want to miss them.
Heidi chats to Julia Morison about body horror, tenderness and the remarkable coherence that results from quite non-linear processes, and then continues a trajectory with Yonel Watene from his previous interview about the Te Tuhi show, to a bit of background and how residencies in Mexico spurred on artistic evolution. And Tom throws in a wee word from the lower East side of NYC, joined by Andrew Penya to tell us about the Parlay Project.
Musician, writer, artist and all round polymath legend Coco Solid has just been added to the Rhythm & Alps line up for 2020! Coco popped up to the station for a catch up with Rachel yesterday. Tune in to hear about making podcasts over lockdown, one year of Aroha Bridge, and what she is getting up to with her online platform Kuini Qontrol. Whakarongo mai!
Gordon Koang is a bonafide living legend. Born blind, and hailing from the Nuer Tribe of the Upper Nile region, he is a massive pop star in what is now know as South Sudan. When civil war broke out in 2013, he stayed in Australia as an asylum seeker, which is where he now resides permanently. His 11th album 'Unity' is out today via Melbourne imprint Music In Exile. Whakarongo mai nei to hear his conversation with Rachel.
Gee Dee lives in New York, where he deejays and makes music. He's co-founded Earth Beat, is a resident at Good Room in Brooklyn, and plays regularly at Philadelphia's long-running party Making Time. He also has a new live project with Juan MacLean called Infinity Machine, and hot solo releases for Planet Trip Records, Superior Elevation Records, and Light of Other Days. On FPR tonight he takes us for a two hour dive into meditative club music, with an emphasis on glorious 90s cuts. It's bliss bbs.
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