The Wire with Caeden

Check out the full podcast for this week's Tuesday show, where we speak to Michael Powles about the prospects of a 'reset' on New Zealand's Pacific relations, Jane McCrae about a new book she's put out on Māori Oral Traditions, take a look at talks between China's Premier and Bill English, and more. 

Yesterday ActionStation and the Coalition for Better Broadcasting held a forum in Mt Eden. This was part of a larger campagin investigating how to make public broadcasting and media better in Aotearoa. bFM reporter Amanda Jane Robinson speaks to ActionStation’s Marianne Elliot about the campaign.

This week, bFM's Amanda Jane Robinson and producer Ben Goldson talk about the call for an inquiry into claims that New Zealand soldiers were involved in Afghanistan raids that killed civillians. They also talk to FIRST Union's Dennis Maga about the exploitation of migrant workers. They have their weekly chat with the Green Party, this week talking to Green MP Eugenie Sage about the Afghanistan raids inquiry, the Vivid Economics Net Zero report, and the joint budget responsibility rules with the Labour Party. AUT Pacific Media Centre's Kendall Hutt is back talking about Pasifika, malu, and the climate rally. They speak with the University of Auckland's Dr. Chris Wilson about the parameters of terrorism and media framing around terror attacks. And lastly they speak with ActionStation's Marianne Elliot about an investigation into public broadcasting and media in Aotearoa. All this and more on this week's Monday Wire - check out the full podcast here. 

Dr Brian Greene is professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and co-founder of the World Science Festival, an annual week-long series of seminars and panel discussions that has taken place in New York since 2008 (loads of those panel discussions are available to watch here)

Ahead of his live talk this Sunday - A Time Travelers Tale - Dr Greene spoke to Hugh Sundae about string theory and science in the age of Trump.