Producer Conor spoke with Mark Jennings, formerly of Media Works, on the People's Commission on Public Broadcasting and Media. Mark served as a panelist on the commission, and travelled to various parts of the country to engage in discussion with concerned individuals.
Joel and Producer Sam host The Wire for Monday the 4th of December in which:
Sam talks to Rebecca Hobbs from Save Our Unique Landscape about their Hikoi on Karangahape Road this Saturday.
Joel talked to AUT’s Merja Myllylahti about the New Zealand annual media ownership report that she released.
Leonard Powell talked to Barter Barber Sam Dowdall who’s travelling around the country giving men haircuts and using that as an opportunity to get them to open up for mental health.
We held a panel on the use of Te Reo Maori in the media and discuss the outrage on display from all sides.
Producer Leonard Powell caught up with Sam Dowdall who's travelling the country cutting men's hair and helping men open up about mental health while sitting in the barber chair, as this is something that's often obscured by ideas of masculinity. He's known as the Barter Barber and is trying to do something about a problem that he along with so many others have seen first hand.
The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar has dominated news across the world since a spate of violence which broke out in August.
Since then, more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled the country for Bangladesh, admidst claims of rape and murder by Myanmar's military.
A new book, Myanmar's Enemy Within, aims to explain the roots and causes of this crisis. Producer Mack Smith spoke to the book's author, British journalist Francis Wade.
Wendy Allison, director of Know Your Stuff NZ, runs a team of volunteers who aren't interested in judging if/when/why a person may choose to use recreational drugs - they just want to give them as much information as possible in order to reduce harm and keep party goers safe. Wendy's team offer free drug testing at festivals around the country, spotting 'extra ingredients' ranging from the harmless to the potentially fatal. So, how does it all work? What are they finding? Are there roadblocks to the process? How can we help?
On today's Wire we spoke to Matt Warren from Surf Life Saving NZ about their call for funding from central government, Jo Knight from Zero Waste NZ about reducing the amount of garbage we produce and Wendy Allison from Know Your Stuff NZ about their work testing various drugs in festivals around the country. Finally for This Day in History, there's part three of our series on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
From thrash to trap to classic indie & outlaw country, Angus Thunder keeps the good ship b afloat while Rick Breeze pumps the bilges - classic Sunday Morning fare.
Directors Antoinette Wilson and Jordan Osmond have toured the country interviewing international and local experts in various fields. They sought to provide great insight into the problems we are currently facing and will face in the future.
It isn’t just a documentary of doom and gloom, instead Antoinette and Jordan seek to provide refreshing and insightful solutions.
Reuben McLaren has a chat to find out more.
The film will premiere in Auckland on Saturday 3rd March at the Academy Cinema.
Painter Ayesha Green comes into studio to tak about Creative New Zealand's Ngā Toi Māori strategy and the hui they will be running around the country to try to understand how best a Māori funding strategy can help grow Māori arts in Aotearoa. She also chats to us about her show Alma Venus at the Corbyn Arts Centre.
With the suprise dismissal of White House National Security Advisor HR McMaster, and the acension of John Bolton to the role, Neutral Corner contrasts the coverage given by Bolton's former employer, Fox News, and by PressTV, owned by one of the countries the former UN ambassador has labelled as a major enemy of the USA, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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