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.
The 2017 Parliamentary Drug Law Symposium kicked off today in Wellington, bringing together a range of international and domestic speakers to talk about how better drug laws can be developed for the 21st Century. An increasing number of countries around the world are shifting their stance towards controlling drugs, away from a prohibitive approach and towards law & policy that promotes health and wellbeing. One of the speakers at the Symposium is Professor of Criminology at Durham University, Fiona Measham, who is also the Director of a non-profit in the UK that provides drug safety testing, as well as welfare and harm reduction services at nightclubs and festivals. 95bFM reporter Pearl Little catches up with Fiona to find out a little more about her work.
Music can be a pretty unifying force, especially for the geographically isolated. Kiran talks to Mikey about music critic David Keenan's first novel, This Is Memorial Device, which evokes this idea while portraying a fictional post-punk band in '70s-'80s small town Scotland.
Alex picks a show Mike's had on the brain for ages - the '70s crime drama Quarry. With an antihero whose story spans the Mekong to the Mississippi, Alex gets in behind to make some bold claims of quality.
Oto and Jaycee chatted with Jefferson Chen, aka Goodspace, about his upcoming single - 'Easier Said than Done' and the PEDAL installation he set up leading up to the release.
Jaycee went to the Installation on the first day of it's launch and talked to some of the attendees as well.
Penelope Noir is talking sustainble Fashun, specifically in Sweden where there's the first second hand mall has been around since 2015. Is this paving the way for the future?
Israeli police have blocked this year's annual Palestinian March of Return. The police have denied the organisers a permit, saying there is a shortage of officers to oversee the march. However, Palestinian leaders in Israel see this as yet another effort to silence their resistance. bFM reporter Amanda Jane Robinson took a look at the 1948 Nakba and the history of the March of Return.
Today on dear science we talk about how some sunblocks may not be as good as they claim to be. We delve into another vaccine debate surrounding the HPV vaccine, and a recent study that proves (once and for all) that the vaccine has no effect on developmental dissorders in children. Finally we talk about a forensics firm in the UK that has been found out to not be properly carrying out their scientific work.
New Zealand rap icon, Dean Hapeta, chats to Mike about his group, Upper Hutt Posse, and their legacy. After recently being announced as the 2018 Music Hall of Fame & Legacy Award recipient, Dean chats about their music, how they paved a way for rap in New Zealand, and the importance of activism in music.
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