On Dear Science this week, AUT’s Allan Blackman discusses a 600 year old interstellar mystery involving light explosions over Korea which has recently been solved, new nanomachine technology which might hold the key to curing cancer and claims by a conspiracy theorist that the end of the world is nigh as a mysterious planet is about to collide with Earth.
State of the States is back with Nick Sawhney from WNYU - we are talking Healthcare dead in the water, North Korea tensions and Trump's debacle dragging out his NFL comments
What's Twyford up to with Auckland's Unitary Plan? Is Winston going to North Korea? When is a (CP)TPP not a trade agreement? Are we having fun yet? (Yes, actually.)
News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Labour’s Andrew Little about an office for an Independent Inspector-General of Defence being established after a bill passed in parliament, The New Zealand Defence Force's deployment to the Republic of Korea being extended, and National's proposed Pothole Fund.
First, she asked Hon Andrew Little about why an office for an Independent Inspector-General of Defence is needed.
The winner of the 2023 Portage Ceramics awards has recently been announced as Jino Jeong, for his work Celestial Thread: A Tapestry of Sunshine and Spiderwebs.
Jino is a Tāmaki Makaurau based ceramicist, who was born in Seoul and studied ceramics at Kyonggi University in South Korea.
The pieces in Celestial Thread were praised for their meticulously crafted forms defining volume through lines in space.
Frances had a chat to Jino to learn more about his entry.
Learn all about the Seoul Residency campaign Big Fan are running in partnership with Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono and CJ Cultural Foundation! Applications close this Friday so get in quick if you and your band want the chance to win a trip to Korea to record and perform at CJ Azit. Find all the info here!
Tonight's show was actually entirely curated by bFM's own Samuel Harmony, who sent Oto and Jaycee, not just a playlist, but a stack of CDs and Casettes that he collected while he was in Indonesia as part of the New Zealand Delegation attending AXEAN Festival 2025. Whakarongo mai to experience 2 hours of Psych rock, folk, disco and more by Southeast-Asian artists playing at the festival!
International Relations professor Robert Kelly's BBC interview about South Korea was interrupted when his two small children showed up. His wife rushed in and ushered the children out of the room. However, many people and some media outlets assumed that Professor Kelly's wife, Jung-a Kim, was the nanny. The assumption has sparked a wider discussion about interracial couples and media representation of Asian women. bFM reporter Amanda Jane Robinson spoke to author MiMi Aye, who tweeted about some of these assumptions and is part of an interracial family.
This week, Jogai and Harry chat to Dr James Cheeseman of the UoA's Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences to learn more about a big scientific insight into Piha's little critters, and Harry has a report on a new not-for-profit public health model that suggests the legal sale of recreational cannabis will greatly benefit Aotearoa. 95bFM reporter Will Parsonson chats to Fossil Free UoA's Rhys Jones about divesting from fossil fuels, and our weekly Thursday feature State of the States has returned! This week, Harry chats to Nick about North Korea/US relations, and the attention-grabbing election in the state of Georgia. Andrew Little is also back for our weekly chat. All this and more on the Thursday Wire - check out the full podcast here.
Artbanker Theo set a bit of a record for us today, talking to 11 GUESTS IN THE HOUR. Ka pai. Firstly we heard from Amy Weng, Kalee Jackson and Rebecca Lal, three of the minds behind Te Tuhi's latest publication THE HIVE HUMS WITH MANY MINDS. This 130 page full colour limited edition printed publication features essays by Tessa Laird, Gregory Kan & Ruth Watson, and Bruce E. Phillips, plus additional contributions by exhibiting artists such as a foldout page work by Monique Jansen and texts by Shahriar Asdollah-Zadeh and Charlotte Drayton, all complemented by graphic design by Kalee Jackson.
Then we had the Bulgasari Aotearoa crew in studio. Throughout June and July, Lee Hanjoo (이한주), Lee Bong Gyo (이봉교), Yukie Sato, Taekyung Seo (서태경) and Soojung Kae (계수정) will be in residence at the Audio Foundation HQ in central Auckland where they will collaborate with local musicians – producing concerts and recordings while working toward an exhibition for the Audio Foundation gallery. Travelling with the Korean artists as key collaborators are renowned NZ musician John Bell (vibraphone/percussion) and sound artist Ian-John Hutchinson (prepared harmonicas). These two artists have been based in South Korea for over 5 years and are established figures in the Korean experimental music scene.
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