That's right, our weekly Thursday feature State of the States has returned! Producer Harry Willis catches up with Nick to learn more about what's going down in North Korea/US relations and the attention-grabbing election in the state of Georgia.
Rotorua’s council has backed down on plans to import tonnes of mud for the upcoming Mud Festival. Dirt was kicked up when New Zealand Herald columnist Rachel Stewart broke the story about a possible biosecurity risk from the mud coming from South Korea.
Today on the Wire Harry and Ben look at rising tensions between North Korea and the United States, Kelvin Davis joins us to talk Labour's water policy, Dr Jeffrey Cole, founding member of The Internet Project talks about the project 17 years from conception, and Interest.co.nz reporter Jenée Tibshraeny talks the monopolisation of NZ Insurance.
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!
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