The Wire with Caeden

Daniel Walker and Olivia Mortimer-Eade review some hard-hitting, poignant, and funny pieces from the Wednesday Wire in 2016.
There's an interesting proposal during the refugee crisis, looking back to when wait times for Family Planning were two months, asking if Auckland’s rents really only rose by a dollar this year, our favourite piece from weekly feature Dear Science, bFM's last interview with the late trade unionist Helen Kelly, a listen to the sounds of this year’s Eid day festival, Ladi6 and Boh Runga on women in music, and a flashback to that one time Ricky Gervais followed someone on Instagram.

Sam Smith and Jess Smith revisit some of the best interviews from Tuesday Wire this year. They revisit the place of record stores in the digital age, the legitimacy of law, actress Jennifer Ward-Lealand's journey learning te reo, education funding changes, and the petition to get a day of commemoration for the New Zealand wars. We also have our final chat with Māori party co-leader Marama Fox for the year.

An Auckland protest group has been organising demonstrations against the now former President of South Korea, Park Geun-Hye. Previously they were calling for her to be resign, but despite her being impeached last week - effectively ending her presidency - the demonstrations aren’t done just yet.
Producer Mack Smith spoke to April Rin Kwak, one of the organisers and participants in these protests. He began by asking her why she decided to get involved.