This week, Jogai and Jess catch up with Claire Hart from Tearfund to learn more about ethical fashion in New Zealand, and bFM reporter Katie Doyle speaks to Mike King about the People's Mental Health Report. Jogai chats to one of the editors and founders of the online magazine e-Tangata, following a profile by the Newsroom highlighting the need to elevate Maori and Pasifika voices in mainstream media. Producer Jess has a report on the Big Dog Walk coming up this weekend with organiser Alice McKinley, and Labour Leader Andrew Little is back for our weekly chat, discussing concerns in the mental health sector and a new plan to cut back on immigration. All this and more on the Thursday Wire - check out the full podcast here.
Reuben McLaren speaks to newly elected Green Party co-lear Marama Davidson about what her leadership will mean for the party, how the Greens will hold the government to account and what is to be made from Immigration New Zealand’s alleged racial profiling.
Lucy Austin finds out about New Zealand's prospects with Brexit on the horizon and what it could mean for trade and our economy. She has a chat to trade, finance and economic development minister David Parker.
It’s Wire Worry Week and we’re focussing on public transport. Mary-Margaret speaks to Auckland Councillor Richard Hills about the regional fuel tax and what it will do for the transport system.
Lastly, we have The Southern Cross with Jean Bell in studio where we’ll get a run down on the big stories from the Asia pacific Region.
Do violent extremists have common characteristics and backgrounds? Can we predict who among them will become violent? Patrick James is project manager for Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) at the University of Maryland. The PIRUS dataset contains de-identified, individual-level information on the backgrounds, attributes, and radicalisation processes of nearly 1500 violent and non-violent extremists who adhere to far-right, far-left, or single issue ideologies in the United States, covering the years 1948 to 2013. Maria Armoudian spoke to James about the project and the characteristics that lead to violent extremism.
Phil Elverum is the primary songwriter, performer, and producer for Mount Eerie and The Microphones. For around 27 years, Phil has been creating some of the most revered and critically acclaimed indie folk of all time. His music veers between stripped back acoustic guitar recordings, to terrifyingly loud and distorted sonic experiments.
Mount Eerie is currently on the verge of a return to Aotearoa, playing in Tāmaki Makaurau, Pōneke, and Ōtepoti with Black Belt Eagle Scout - another band from Washington State that will bring new and classic Mount Eerie tunes to a new, full band soundscape.
I’ve been obsessed with the music of The Microphones and Mount Eerie since I was fourteen. I think I had the Glow Part 2 album cover as my profile picture on Google for about four years, so suffice to say it was a real privilege to interview him. We had a yarn about the upcoming shows, his previous tours of Aotearoa, twenty years of the Mount Eerie name, and more.
Chris Riddell is a world-renowned illustrator and author of children’s books and the political cartoonist for the Observernewspaper. He has collaborated with artists and writers such as Neil Gaiman, Phoebe Bridgers and Frances Hardinge. In 2018 he travelled to Aotearoa to speak at the Auckland Writers Festival. Most recently, Chris has releasedI Can’t Remember What We Talked About, a slim volume of 24 poems.
Beth and Chris chat about the creative process of art-making and poetry writing, love of nature, designing pop-up books for the backdrop of Phoebe Bridgers’ tour and magical pear tree staffs. Chris reads some poems and they also speak about what it’s like being a political cartoonist in the current political climate.
Guest Dujon Cullingford joins Sofia to chat about Aotearoa music from the 70s and 80s found throughout their crate digging life. Dujon shares his finds and knowledge — an invaluable mix of Kiwi tracks from soul, funk, disco, and anything simply, good.
Welcome to the first episode of bLine, 95bFM’s new news podcast. bLine aims to bridge the gap between young people and decision makers, through youth-centred interviews focused on youth issues. The upcoming episodes will feature a range of topics affecting young people in our everyday lives, starting off with public transport.
As one of the largest public transport user groups, it’s important that young people are represented in decision making around the future of public transport developments in the city. One source of feedback that’s popped up recently is the explosion of activity around public transport on social media. In the first episode of bLine we spoke to @lethimdrive, @ifuckinghatethe394, the University of Auckland's Mohsen Mohammadzadeh, and Auckland Transport's Stacey van der Putten.
This episode of bLine is about NCEA and the recently announced overhaul. In discussions around a change that will directly affect students, there’s been very little time given to student voices and perspectives. This seems to be a change directed primarily at parents, despite the experiences of young people with NCEA and the needs of students who will be most affected.
In this week’s episode we wanted to highlight the perspectives that have been mostly ignored in discussions about the change. We spoke to students Jed and Kenahemana, President of the Post Primary Teachers Association Te Wehengarua, Chris Abercrombie, and lecturer in Teacher Education at the University of Canterbury, David Pomeroy.
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