The Wire with Manny

News director Lillian Hanly talks to Urs Signer who lives in Parihaka, and is a member of climate justice Taranaki.Signer talks about the impacts of removing new permits for offshore drilling and the ongoing impacts of onshore drilling

The Golden Dawn Tavern of Power was an Auckland music venue that many listeners would be familiar with. It has had hundreds if not thousands of local and international acts through its doors, surprising Ponsonby crowds with established, unknown, and unusual acts. Before the bar closed last month, veteran sound engineer Bob Frisbee made it his task to produce and direct a concert documentary recording every single act that performed since the start of the year. 95bFM reporter and camera operator on the doco, Joel Thomas spoke to Bob about the documentary and its significance in Auckland music.

On this week's Wire, Lachlan speaks with former Elam student Rachel Ashby about the University’s proposal to close the Fine Arts Library. Then Neutral Corner returns on America’s response to a reported chemical attack in Syria. Andrew Little joins Lachlan for their weekly chat where they discuss the crises in the human rights tribunal and family court system and the purchase of land at Poroti . Our wire worry week topic is public transport and Jemima chats to Ricardo Menendez March about the government’s proposed fuel tax. Finally, this day in history looks at the first successful human space flight in 1961.

This week, neutral corner is contrasting the coverage given to the United States of America's reponse to a chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma by RT (formerly Russia Today) and Fox News.