Towns and cities across Aotearoa will be lighting up their landmarks and prominent buildings in pink to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October.
Joe spoke to Ah-Leen Rayner, the Chief Executive of The Breast Foundation, about supporting breast cancer initiatives and spreading awareness of early detection.
Eli slots in for Sigrid and cooks up a stew of sounds. A variety of musical ingredients served in one big pot. From shoegaze to slowcore, dream pop to jungle, from here and abroad. Fresh and tasty. 💚
After months of enforced absence and pre-recorded Shows, Def Jim returns ecstatically to the live bFM Studio with a blazing programme of Creative Improvised Music featuring most notably the latest offering from Thumbscrew.
University of Canterbury Astronomer Professor John Hearnshaw is calling for national legislation to limit light pollution.
He proposed a national law that would set new controls on outdoor lighting, such as 10pm curfews for illuminated advertising signs, limits on what street lights could emit, and reductions in blue light across cities and towns.
David spoke to Richard Easther from the University of Auckland about what would happen if New Zealand started to regulate light pollution.
Got some blues for ya, some great local tunes off the system and handful from the 95bFM vinyl library. Very pleased with how the 'no power to the laptop' situation was handled and discovered perhaps the worst thing joe strummer ever did. you be the judge.
Def Jim presents his 15 Sleeps Jazz Show, with brand new releases from the likes of James Brandon Lewis and John Zorn, and a newly re-released classic from The Jazz Doctors, amongst a typically varied selection of other album tracks both close and more distant in the Jazz Highway rear-view mirror.
Neil and James and the old pals like Dwight and Townes as well as new buddies, Sammy & Colby, also, popping a listeners Drive By Truckers cherry by special request. He dug it.
The rising cost of living in Aotearoa is pushing many families out of cities and bringing them to smaller rural communities and towns.
The influx of new residents and housing developments in these areas is having a massive impact on the schools and teachers within those communities, reshaping the identity of the schools and the way they structure themselves.
Oto spoke to Dr Jennifer Tatebe, a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland, to discuss the impacts of urbanisation on rural schools.
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