The Wire with Manny

Check out the full podcast for this week's Tuesday show, where speak to Otago University's Robert Patman about the political minefield in the Korean peninsula, Marama Fox about Māori incarceration rates and gangs, Auckland University associate professor Nikki Turner about a mumps outbreak hitting Auckland, Victoria University’s Phil Lester about new research into cloning wasps to destroy their species, and more. 

Fake American Accent is a monthly poetry reading brought to you by Thursday Girls, a dream team collaboration between performance artist and acclaimed poet Vanessa Crofskey alongside writer and filmmaker, Amanda Jane Robinson. Wire host Jogai Bhatt speaks to Vanessa, ahead of their first event at the Basement.
 

Six teams will compete in a military challenge to retrieve a flag from the highest point of the sky tower to raise funds for the RSA’s annual poppy appeal. New Zealand’s defence personnel and emergency response services will go head to head in the challenge, taking place on April 20th. Wire producer Jess Smith reports.

The Green Party said yesterday that the Government’s weak strategy for cleaning up fresh water won’t undo years of abuse, unless we change our farming model and take a hard long look at how we develop land in this country. bFM reporter Ambrose O’Meagher spoke to Green MP Catherine Delahunty about this issue, earlier yesterday morning.