The Wire with Caeden

Today on the Wire with Zoë:
Zoë has her weekly chat with Green Party co-leader James Shaw regarding new environmental projects and an update on the Green School controversy. 

95bFM's Election Coverage is back, and this week's theme is housing. 

Producer Aneeka Moheed interviews the National Council of Women in New Zealand's Lisa Lawrence on statistics showing 90.91% of people who lost their job in New Zealand due to Covid 19 were women. 

Zoë Larsen Cumming interviews natural language processor and Artificial Intelligence programmer Alistair Landels on conversational interactions with bots and AI. 

Aneeka Moheed interviews Gina Dellabarca from the Show Me Short's Film Festival on how it plan to operate due to Covid 19 changes. 

The Show Me Shorts Film Festival is set to begin on the 2nd of October. Aneeka talks to festival director, Gina Dellabarca, about what's coming up. 

95bFM's Election Coverage plan is back on as New Zealand leads up to the October 17 election. This week's theme is housing, and Zoë Larsen Cumming interviews the Green Party co-leader James Shaw on the party's housing policies. 

Tune in for a re-run of the Friday Wire with Oscar Perress and Ollie Joblin!

The Community Garden returns and we speak with Candice from Pātaka Kai Open Street Pantries. 

Then 95bFM's Ollie Joblin talks secondary tax with Professor Michael Littlewood of the University of Auckland. 

We were then joined by PSA National Secretary Kerry Davies to discuss their legal case against Access Community Health. 

For City Counselling, 95bFM's Oscar Perress talks to Cr Richard Hills about the run into the General election and how that sits with local government, as well the 10 Year Plan. 

Wrapping up the show, we summarise the week of news in The Week That Was, as curated by Ollie.

A huge thank you to everyone who spoke to us today.