Earlier this week the City Rail Link reached a milestone, breaking through the end of its final tunnel.
The tunnel boring machine created space for the new rail system by breaking through fifteen metres of cement per day.
The machine was Named after Dame Whina Cooper, the Maori Rights activist who led the hikoi to parliament.
For this week’s segment of City Counselling, I had a chat with Shane Henderson about the City Rail Link milestone as well as the 2022 Mayoral conservation awards.
For City Counselling, News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Shane Henderson about Te Hononga Akoranga, COMET, an organisation addressing education disparities in local communities, becoming an independent from the Auckland Council.
They also discussed a new local initiative, recycled fabric billboards in Henderson-Massey.
They started off their interview discussing why Te Hono-nga Ako-ranga, COMET, is separating from the council.
We had Dan Nash in the studio talking about his work, QWHATDOESABORDERCOLLEYEATALUCKILYFINEPOWDER, at RM gallery. We hear some of the soundtrack from an earlier work shown at North Projects, and talk gaming, dogs, and listen to some beach boys. Theo talks to Jem Noble about his show Dream Dialects, on now at Te Tuhi in Pakuranga.
Jess plays new releases by Sun Kil Moon, Sampha, Pixx and many more. Oscar from Auckland band, Rackets, joins Jess in the studio to talk about their latest EP, 'Non-Zero-Sum Game Sixteen Faces'.
Minister for the Environment, Nick Smith, is set to release a statement this week on the state of New Zealand’s fresh waterways. Currently, the standard for New Zealand freshwater systems states that they must at least be wadeable. But more than 12,000 kiwis have signed a Green Party petition that calls for the government to up their game and make the country's waters swimmable. 95bFM reporter Adel Abied speaks to Green Party water spokesperson Catherine Delahunty about the issue.
AUT’s Allan Blackman brings his best chemistry banter game to the studio today for Dear Science. He tells Ximena & Adam about a new polymer worm that’s been designed to move when it reacts with light, how the current Qatar diplomatic crisis is impacting the world’s supply of helium, as well as about how chemists have recently explained the reason why humans don’t constantly spontaneously combust.
We got a bit carried away in the first flush of our new television and streaming segment, Viewmaster. Or, given that this week's is all about the recently season-seven-wrapped Game of Thrones, perhaps this week's edition is better called... View-maester? [slow distant clap] Oh dear.
With your normal host off making some actual telly, Mikey and Sarah talk about David Simon's new drama, The Deuce. The new HBO series features double your usual dose of James Franco (playing twins) and Maggie Gyllenhall as a hooker-with-a-(business)-heart-of-gold in a dive into the fledgling porn industry of 1970s New York City. Inspired by real life events, can Simon bring his gritty realism to the flares, flash and flange of such salacious material? And, perhaps more importantly, will this fill the Monday night hole left by Game of Thrones?
This morning on breakfast Lillian joins Mikey to talk women's suffrage; For Viewmaster Alex recaps the 69th Annual Emmy Awards; Aaannndd the show is peppered with good tunes, banter and a quick game of "What am I?"
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