Rachael talked to Bianca Rocca and Toya Webb about their show 'Working Title', on at the George Fraser Gallery. Theo was in studio and played some Korean experimental music from the Bulgasari community. He also played some commentry from John Waters, the director of Multiple Maniacs.
Over the weekend North Korea’s political climate exploded quite literally with a missile test. Mack looked into this more in a report on the situation.
What are the realities of the politics of North Korea, and what is the proper response of the US and the international community? Maria Armoudian discusses these issues with Stephan Haggard, Jacques E.C. Hymans, and Charles K. Armstrong.
Jenna's just read Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu and highly recommends it. If Charles' work on HBO series, Westworld, isn't enough to entice you to read this book, perhaps winning the Fiction prize in the National Book Awards for 2020 will.
This week the arts community has been remembering Nanette Cameron, who passed away aged 95. She's been dubbed "Aotearoa’s preeminent interior designer" by arts organisation Objectspace, "instrumental in the flourishing of interior design practice in Tāmaki Makaurau and nationally." Her passing has been met with tributes, gratitude and aroha for a woman who is described by those who met her as formidable, a sweetheart and everything in between. To hear more about her life Frances caught up with retired director of Objectspace, Philip Clarke, who was director of Objectspace when they staged the major exhibition and published the publication Nanette Cameron: Interior Design Legend in 2013.
Reporter Sam Smith wraps up what is happening globally news-wise. He takes a look at the possibility of another Scottish independence referendum, the controversial comments made by the Turkish President to the Netherlands, and the impeachment of South Korea's President.
Tension is building on the Koean Peninsula as the growing standoff between the U.S. and North Korea gathers steam. Reporter Sam Smith takes a closer look at the situation and whether war is coming to East Asia.
It’s been revealed New Zealand sent over $200,000 towards North Korea aid until it was cut off last year. We talk to the Taxpayers Union, the group behind the revelations, about their claims that this was a waste of expenditure.
Yesterday North Korea detonated what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb that could be launched on a missile capable of reaching the United States. Mack Smith reports.
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