The Wire with Sara

This week on the Wednesday Wire, it's the last Wednesday show of the year! We're recapping some of the best news pieces the 95bFM news team has produced this year with our Best of 2021 shows. So, today Zazi, Christina and Jemima bring you the best of the Wednesday Wire. 

The show kicks off with Christina highlighting pieces from this year’s Dear Science with AUT Professors Allan Blackman and Marcus Jones. Christina reminds us of some great science convo’s, including one about electric vehicles, another about plastic that can be broken down by enzymes, a third about how someones genetic code can tell us how homosexuality may have evolved, as well as one interview where Marcus talks about potty training cows!

Then, Zazi reflects back on Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. In September of this year, Zazi spoke with Dr. Daniel Hikuroa, a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, about his journey with Te Reo Māori, and why it is an important language to celebrate.

After that, Zazi highlights some pieces done by Frances Wright, who was a producer on the show during the university semester. She has always had a soft spot for birds, so we go through her two interviews where she talks about Bird of the Year and encouraging Native birds to come into our backyards. 

Christina also brings us a round up of all the best (or worst) Covid news of 2021. 

And finally, Zazi replays her interview with Thomas Nail, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver in the United States, about why walking is good for the brain.

This week on the Wire we're recapping some of the best news pieces the 95bFM news team has produced this year with our Best of 2021 shows. So, today Jemima Huston and Emily Bell bring you the best of the Tuesday Wire.

Jemima recaps her pieces on the government's $100 million plus deal with tech giant Amazon to film The Lord of the Rings television series and Apple's child exploitation material scanning technology set to be rolled out on US Apple devices. 

We play Trishil Dahya's piece on experiencing the autism spectrum. 

Emily runs through 10 of the most significant events this year to round up the news cycle for 2021.

Finally, we replay Isla Christensen and Stella Huggins' Tomorrow's World episode on memory recall and the true ability of humans to remember events. 

Kohimarama Forest in Auckland’s Eastern Bays is under threat of being sold for residential development.

A push is now on to try to find a way of buying the land to preserve it as a publicly owned ecological reserve.

I spoke to Michelle Brinsden from the Eastern Bays Songbird Project who shares concerns about the future of Kohimarama Forest. 

This week on the show, Jessica speaks to Professor Janet Hoek from the University of Otago about the Government's Smoke Free Aotearoa Action Plan.

On City Counselling, this week Councillor Pippa Coom talks about the Councils 2022/23 budget being approved for public consultation and concerns surrounding the growing number of private helipads in residential areas.

And finally Michelle Brinsden from the Eastern Bays Songbird Project shares concerns about the future of Kohimarama Forest which is being sold to property developers.