Today on your bFM Breakfast: Mike spent all night researching music you lucky listeners, we've got some juicy tunes to start your weekend; we're catching up with what's happening in tinsel town; the Doctor is in with a little handheld number, in the shape of a piano... Sort of?; and after a two week hiatus, Johanna is back full of fire; Happy Fri-yay!
Dr. Mark, & Miss Dom Yinged, & Yanged with their tidy Jazzy selections. While Mark was Jazz-Pop-guy, Miss Dom featured a bunch of new releases, & was Avant Garde Jazz Dom.
Blind Mango Chutney is taking an enforced break this week (get well soon Blind Mango!) so stepping in to take you on a jazz trip this Sunday is Sperber Dan, with a little this and that, and a lot of crossover jazz.
Joining him in the studio is Taylor Griffin ahead of his gig on Saturday at Ponsonby Social Club. He talks about and plays his inspirations, and introduces us to his forthcoming (second) album.
And all sponsored by the great San Ray Restaurant on Ponsonby Rd.
Mary-Margaret speaks to Andrew Becroft about the extension of the role of Children’s Commissioner to monitor of treatment of children in secure detention centres
Emmy Rakete gives us the where and when of their rally demanding that the officers who hurt Nikau Andrews are brought to account
Ollie talks to Michael Burnett from The Brothers Green about hemp, and if they have upheld their responsibility to partner with Ngai Tahu
In Neighbourhood Watch, Zoe updates us on the situation at Melbourne Towers, and the border between Victoria and New South Wales being closed
And Andrew Little joins us to discuss several developments this week, such as the proposed rewriting of the Official Information Act
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