Today on the show Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson dials in to talk to Rachel about community responses to the Auckland Budget, and the Mayor's recent comments about librarians. Ahi Karunaharan, writer and director of Open Stage: A Mixtape For Maladies comes up to the studio to chat about the show, which is part of the Auckland Arts Festival. Alice returns from overseas to update us on the theatre-goings-on of Tāmaki Makaurau on Stage Direction. On Ready Steady Learn, Emma Carroll from the University of Auckland's School of Biological Sciences chats to Rachel about her research on the Tohorā (southern right whale). Whakarongo mai nei!