Featuring Your Gig Is Showing with Finn Bellingham (aka Te Manu) chatting about a koha-entry gig in Bethells Beach, Rainy Day Projects on a sunny day with Finn phoning in with a DIY how-to.
Ōtepoti band Pearly* for a meeeeean Friday Live set, thanks to NZ On Air Music and McLeod's Brewery. Later Tuva'a is joined by a rotating crew of bFM guests to discuss their picks for this year's Whānau Mārama | NZ International Film Festival.
Congratulations! It’s the 96bFM Top 10 with Annabel and Callum. On this week’s show; we talked big numbers with chart expert Dr. Jon Pearce; we celebrated the 2003 oft-regarded classic film School of Rock; and Annabel talked TradeMe horror stories in fan favourite segment, “Trade Secrets”... all that while counting down the biggest songs in the nation. Well done!
The National party has rolled a series of new proposals aimed at dealing with violent gangs, if they were to win the 2020 election. They’ve said they want to take a much stronger stance than the current government, promising new laws ranging from banning gang patches to revoking parole for those associated with gangs to the setting up of a new task force, modelled after a prolific New South Wales unit called “Strike Force Raptor”. This is apparently only the beginning of a broader “gang action plan” that National has promised to release by next year. Meanwhile Corrections minister Kelvin Davis called the document a "mishmash of reheated ideas", stating that the focus should be on anyone who breaks the law rather than specific groups. University of Auckland Criminologist Dr Ron Kramer said the proposals were "transparently pathetic", "overblown propaganda", and that they provide no substantive impact on crime. William Boyd spoke with Manukau ward councillor Efeso Collins, who has been outspoken in the past about opening up conversation with gangs as opposed to cracking down on them. William started off by asking him for his input on the new proposals.
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