Welcome to our brand new segment, A Room Of One's Own! Landlord getting you down? Black mould coating the walls? A window that's been jammed open for the last 10 years? Renter's advocate Salene is here to answer all your questions and help you through the trials and tribulations of the renting hellscape. Whakarongo mai each fortnight in rotation with Red Dead Redemption!
Keegan drops by the studio to share some delicious Avondale delights like Burnt Butter and the wall of corn beef. He also let's us know about Vā, which you can check out across the weekend kicking off tonight! Whakarongo mai nei!
This week Tomorrow's World toes the line of the social sciences, investigating the explosion of reality TV content. From fourth wall breaks, to why it's so consumed, to performative femininity, to whether societal values are actually reflected in formats and duty of care for participants of reality shows. Stella and Isla speak to Rebecca Trelease, who's winding up her PhD at AUT on the subject.
Our beloved Viewmaster is back and this week he chats about the second season of Hunters, which has apparently gone "balls to the wall"! Whakarongo mai nei!
First up on today’s Wire, Oscar speaks with Max Tweedie from the young greens about his petition to ban gay conversion therapy in New Zealand. Neutral corner returns, looking at the Trump Putin meeting. Lachlan speaks with Andrew Little, discussing the human rights commissioners appointment panel and youth being remanded to police cells. Finally, this day in history looks at the assassination of Aung San.
This week on the Monday Wire for our regular Green Party segment Jemima speaks to co-leader Marama Davidson about the success of COP24, the #wastefreeholidays campaign and what the Green Party has in store for 2019. Lillian spoke to Malvindar Singh-Bains, a research fellow at the University of Auckland centre for Brain Research, about Huntington's disease. We play a short extract from the Big Q's panel on climate change last year. Finally I speak to Wendy Allison from Know Your Stuff about safe drug testing over the festival season.
Mediaworks, the owners of TV Three, confirmed yesterday they’ve cancelled Guy Williams’ new comedy show New Zealand Today, and made major cutbacks to long-running panel show 7 Days. It’s also expected we’ve seen the end of Married at First Sight - meaning there’s not a lot of new programming expected for Three in the new year. So what happens now? Stewart Sowman-Lund spoke to journalist Philip Matthews, co-author of the book Funny As, and started by asking him if these cutbacks were a surprise.
On Dear Science with Marcus Jones we talk about mysterious blood clots, artificial chloroplasts, and solar panels sucking water from air to cool them down.
Lillian looks into the Covid19 Public Health Response Act that was debated urgently in parliament this morning.
Felix checks in with the various sectors that have been impacted by Covid.
We have our regular Epidemic Response Committee notes and today we hear discussions about finance and the economy, very pertinent with the Budget announcement coming tomorrow.
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