It's a sunny Tuesday morning and the Breakfast studio is alive with Second Guessing, a kōrero with Skymning about his two latest releases, Stage Direction with Kyle Shields and Aaron Richardson, and Ready Steady Learn! Whakarongo mai nei! 

A new study has found that having female directors on the board of a socially responsible company can have a moderating effect - socially responsible companies benefit from having more women on their boards, but on the flip side, any negative press involving social irresponsibility will result in the company value tanking more if there are women on the board.

Christina spoke to one of the researchers, Dr Lina Li from the University of Auckland's Business School about this study and what it means for businesses.

The 2022 Ethical Fashion Report by Tearfund has been released and shows low standards overall in labour practices and sustainable production.

Footwear companies scored particularly poorly, with the Ngahuia group, which trades as Hannahs and Number One Shoes getting a zero on the report. This morning, they put out a press release blaming the challenges of covid for their refusal to take part.

Casper and Christina reported on these new numbers on the Wire, speaking to Morgan Theakston, advocacy specialist at Tearfund, and Lisa McEwan, a fashion and sustainability lecturer from AUT.

This week on the Tuesday Wire, Casper and Christina chatted science news with Joel Rindelaub for Dear Science.

Casper spoke to National's Dr. Shane Reti for their weekly segment about food prices and agricultural emissions.

Christina had a chat with Dr Lina Li about the benefits of having women on corporate boards.

And they both investigated Tearfund's Ethical Fashion Report with Casper speaking to Tearfund's Morgan Theakston and Christina having a chat to AUT's Lisa McEwan.

Although recent morning’s CPI numbers show that inflation may have peaked, the cost of food continues to be disproportionately high.

Statistics New Zealand is telling us that the increase to food prices is the highest it’s been in 13 years at 8.3 percent.

For Casper's weekly catchup with the National Party’s Dr. Shane Reti, they spoke about the issue of food inflation as well as last week’s He Waka Eke Noa announcement.

Deep sweep, trawl to enthral.

This week on Dear Science, Joel chatted with Casper and Christina about the mental health benefits of birdsong, scientists teaching a brain they made to play pong, and the mysterious mass death of frogs 45 million years ago, because you know we can't resist orgy talk.

Senior Lecturer Aaron Fry has a chat about the design programme at Elam School of Fine Art and Design. Whakarongo mai nei! 

Asher a.k.a. Skymning phoned up for a kōrero about his latest, incredibly sick, singles Exit and Isolation (produced by Welcomer). Whakarongo mai nei! 

Manon comes in another great book rec. Today she chats about The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler - a little bit thriller, very sci-fi and cool. Whakarongo mai nei!