The Wire with Caeden

This is How We’re Gonna Die is a play set in a flat with the flatmates faced with the prospect of the world ending. It is raising money for Youthline this year and is playing as part of the Fringe festival, with shows starting next week. Kelly Gilbride is a co-founder of PG Productions, along with Lana Petrovic. Lana wrote the play and Kelly directed it. Steven Maxwell is acting in it. Lillian Hanly had Kelly and Steve in studio to talk about the play and how difficult flatting can be.

The Our March pride event happened over the weekend, along with other events throughout Tāmaki Makaurau over the week. Much commentary from mainstream media was questioning the event in the wake of a number of corporate sponsors pulling out following the Auckland PRide Boards decision to ban police uniforms. Phylesha Brown-Acton is a board member to the auckland pride festival incorporated society organisation. Lillian Hanly spoke with Phylesha to find out more about Our March, and the history of the pride events.

Last night, Newshub released it’s first Reid Research political poll for 2019. It saw National plunge to its worst result in a decade. And, it saw Judith Collins rise up above Simon Bridges in the preferred PM stake.

Stewart Sowman-Lund spoke to the Spinoff’s Duncan Grieve about whether polls are becoming too much of an event, and starting by asking him whether polls even matter nowadays?

What's happening in Europe this week? Our correspondant in Paris Justin Wong reports.