Today on your bFM Breakfast: Pennie brings in a guest with some serious rag trade cred; Alex brings in some contentious opinions and some class Italopop; Chelsea wants _you_ to help us all learn more about the pressure put on the uncoupled male; and Mike'd like you to listen out for a "doo-do do doo-do do doo-do do-doo". Sure.
Today on your bFM Breakfast: early morning Rev, Chains, and W.A.S.P.; Penelope ponders the psychology of makeup; nigh on forty-eight male callers; Jenna's got the latest from Twitter's sovereign of sadness; and Ange is worried about your testosterone levels, 'kay?
Another successful bFM Drive show with Rosetta! Today we have plenty of good tunes, a recap of the SRN Top 10, your entertainment guide, news, weather, and surf. And, we have a very special and emotional segment of AudioCulture, where we chat to Julia Parnell about the life and expansive career of Martin Phillips.
Music and politics have always had a strong relationship going back to the days of the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movement, and campaigns to combat racism. These days, artists such as Childish Gambino are pushing the boundaries visually and musically when it comes to using their art as a political vehicle. Sam Smith spoke with Patrycja Rozbickya about the intersection between music and politics.
Today on your bFM Breakfast: Rob's teaching Mikey about the birth of the ~ocean~; Clayton's talking talking heads; Simon dials in to catch up with Mike on all the latest politics; and Craig is here to comfort all your money woes.
$5000 has been crowdfunded for trans positive posters and stickers after an increase in anti-trans messages in the media and online. The posters, put up by over 70 volunteers feature messages such as trans is beautiful and trans women are women. Lachlan spoke with one of the organisers of the campaign, Ahi Wi-Hongi from gender minority New Zealand about it.
We are sure you would have seen, to some extent, the media coverage of the Royals visit over the last couple of weeks. You wouldn’t have heard it here on b but we’ve decided this week to revisit for a particular reason. Why exactly do people get royally excited over the royals?? Why does the media take the opportunity to put out multiple stories every day on the royals? Why do we still care? Why was there no formal acknowledgment of day in which the Declaration of Independence was signed here in 1835? Why did they not go up to Waitangi for a visit?
We’re also looking at anti-govt movements this week for Worry Week, and while that term itself is a little limiting Lillian's instructed the Wire team to think broadly about this, as usual. So in this case Lillian wanted to see whether there was also a threat to democracy at hand when everyone is so distracted by the royals. What does that mean for society engaging with its government? And how detrimental could that be...
Neal Curtis is the head of Media and Communication here at the University of Auckland. He is also an immigrant from Britain who has now been here for 7 years. Lillian wanted to see his thoughts on the media attention the royals received, but started by asking what his relationship to the monarchy was as a British New Zealander.
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