Dr. Maria talks to us about the packet of amber soaked weirdness that is Neruda. The odd bio/noir/farce hybrid centers on fascist police chief Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal) as he searches for fugitive communist poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) in a cartoonish game of cat and mouse. The 2016 film comes widely acclaimed, but Maria... is it any good?
The Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards took place last Thursday, and a bunch of really great things happened. SWIDT mesmerized the crowds, TEEKS accepted his award in Te Reo, and Jacinda and Lorde made for what’s being called the defining moment of 2017. A couple of us were lucky enough to witness the whole beautiful mess, because what’s NZ music without bFM? Here’re Jogai and Amanda who were lucky enough to catch up with the most electrifying rap group in the game today, Stoneyhunga’s finest: SWIDT, and New Zealand Music Hall of Fame inductee Sharon O'Neill.
Hannah Ross gives us the best of the weeks 95bFM news bits. This week we looked into the reporting of tongan rugby league supporters from the game last week, we also looked into Papua New Guinea's Manus Island more and 95bfm news teamer Lisa Boudet proved some great interviewing skills with an interview with Phil Twyford.
On the Wire today we have Dear Science as usual with Allan Blackman talking about possible interstellar probes, luminescent fingerprints and nuclear fusion.
Conor Knell speaks with NZEI president Lynda Stuart about getting rid of National Standards.
Lisa Boudet talks with Ian Musson, the programme manager for Kōkiri, a new Māori startup accelerator and Māori entrepreneurship.
Finally, Lillian Hanly investigates a new game played on your smart phones called The Problem.
Medical science can, and often does very successfully, use electrical stimulation to help trigger responses in the human body. However, the specificity of the stimulation needed (i.e. not zapping everything in the nearby radius) has long meant these sorts of implants were limited to pacemakers and cochlear implants. ...But not for long if our guest's research is anything to go by. A current research fellow investigating the use of light stimulation on genetically targeted neurons, Dr. McCormick is on the cutting edge of a potentially game changing technique in the treatment of disease.
Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread is a pretty piece of weirdness - one that stuck with both Fabian and Sarah with neither still quite sure what to make of it. Enjoyable though? You bet yr Daniel Day-Lewis. Feat: this week's supporting roles filled by Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game and the City Impact Church funded Broken.
On todays segment of Neighbourhood Watch, Kelly talks to Rachel about the protests surrounding the Commonwealth games on the gold coast, Malcom Turnbull about to lose another news poll, and about a video gone viral which shows Australian police beating an already restrained man.Keep an ear out for over the ditch
Can Sandra Oh's latest series, Killing Eve top the many (MANY) seasons of Grey Anatomy? Sam's been watching and so far, he's thoroughly impressed. In a game of cat and mouse Eve and Villanelle go head to head in an equal obsession with each other. But is this enough to get Sam through the entire series? Stay tuned.
Dr. Molly Mullen from the University of Auckland's Faulty of Education and Social Work joins Mikey in studio to talk funding in Applied Theatre and her own book, Applied Theatre Economies 2018. Mike and Molly talk about the importance of theatre programmes and the so-called game that is applying for funding in the arts, whether it's important to teach younger communities of children to be competitive or to collaborate together.
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