The Wire with Caeden

This week James and Aneeka bring you a range of juicy pieces to saink your ears into.

On Dear Science this week James and Aneeka talk to Marcus about seabed plutonium, quasicrystals and preserved human tissue from 1918.

Aneeka talks to Professor Dave Barry about the Waikato DHB cyber attacks.

James talks to Hossein Alizadeh from the Bio-Protection Research Centre at Lincoln university about Native plants which could be used as a weapon against soil contamination

James has his weekly catch-up with the ACT party’s Brooke Van Velden, where we talk about ACT’s proposed budget, white privilege being talked in schools, and attendance rates of Maori and Pasifika students

Lyric speaks to Mary-Margaret Slack from Bike Auckland about their 'Liberate the Lane' event, focused on putting pressure on Waka Kotahi to create space for a bike path between Auckland's CBD and the North Shore. Lyric and Mary-Margaret discuss how greatly Aucklanders need the path, as well as the rise and future of cycling.

Today on the Wire, Lyric Waiwiri-Smith interviews Maher Nazal from the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa, about how New Zealanders can support Palestine. 

What’s the Buzz? - our weekly catch up with the New Zealand Drug Foundation - makes a new home on the Tuesday Wire. Aneeka Moheed talks to Brin and Jai from Students for Sensible Drug Policy about the organisation and their goals for drug advocacy in Aotearoa. 

With the government set to complete their roll out of free period products in schools shortly, Jemima Huston speaks to Sarah Pritchard, Sector Project Manager at WasteMINZ. They discuss the environmental impact of disposable period products and how periods can be managed more sustainably. 

Finally, Lyric speaks to Mary-Margaret Slack from Bike Auckland about their call for Waka Kotahi to liberate one of the lanes of the harbour bridge for three months this summer, to allow for cyclists to use the bridge. 

What’s the Buzz? - our weekly catch up with the New Zealand Drug Foundation - makes a new home on the Tuesday Wire. Aneeka Moheed talks to Brin and Jai from Students for Sensible Drug Policy about the organisation and their goals for drug advocacy in Aotearoa.