Last week Greenpeace activists peacefully confronted a deep sea mining ship off the coast of Manzanillo, México as it returned to port from the Pacific. 

Joe spoke to James Hita, Greenpeace Aotearoa campaigner on the matter, to get some insight into the impact of deep sea mining.

'Power to the princess: This princess is brave, bold and needs no prince'

This is the title of a study showing that children movies often enforce gender stereotypes, but they also hold the power to quickly shift them. 

Daniel spoke with Anita Azeem who explains how some disney movies carry strong messages about gender roles and how children are affected by these messages. She also talks about her research thats shows how gender stereotypes can be changed.

Should we be lowering the speed limit?

Daniel talks about this question with Simon Kingham. Across the country there are plans to lower the speed limits. These plans are part of the Road to Zero project which assigned local councils to envision a plan with zero deaths and serious injuries on New Zealand roads. According to Professor of Human Geography Simon Kingham this is the right thing to do.

Actor, artist, and playwright Morgana O'Reilly drops by the studio for a kōrero about the return season of her fantastic show Stories About My Body. Catch it at Q Theatre from the 30th of November until the 3rd of December! Whakarongo mai nei to hear all about it. 

Rachel chats to Izzy, Lola, and Halle from LA's Automatic ahead of their show at Whammy on the 15th of January! Whakarongo mai nei! 

Not even a hoard of cancelled buses can thwart the Viewmaster's quest to bring us his weekly TV recommendation. Today he reckon chats check out Wednesday, the new series about Wednesday Addams on Netflix! 

We're back in the Appalachian Hills today, chatting about Experimental Bluegrass! Grab your fiddle, grab your jug! 

The COP27 summit has recently concluded, resulting in some more plans to tackle climate change being put in place but less effort on wide scale action with the urgency needed. 

The international conference took place in Egypt, and saw a new focus on implementation and the way climate change disproportionately affects developing nations.

Liam had a chat with Climate Minister and Green Party Co-leader James Shaw about his outlook after attending the conference, and the current state of climate policy in NZ. 

A brief warning that this story contains multiple mentions of suicide.

A new Ipsos study has revealed that three quarters of New Zealands youth has experienced immense mental distress and fourty percent have seriously considered self harm or suicide over the past year.

This issue isn’t only taking place for young people, though - 61% of  people between the ages of 35 and 49 said they were stressed to the point they couldn’t cope, and 30% reported feeling suicidal. 

With Aotearoa holding one of the highest youth suicide rates in the world, the mental health foundation sez that the current system is in crisis, and urgent action needs to be taken.

Liam Hansen spoke to the MHF CEO, Shaun Robinson, about the Ipsos survey and what needs to change in Aotearoa to improve our suicide rates.

The show kicks off with Professor Jennifer Curtin talking us through the events of the day on Political Commentary, then Reuben Hudson phones up from Naarm/ Melbourne to chat about his EP Cloudhead, Jim's got some gardening tips on Greening Out, and Voom's Buzz Moller chats about their new track with Fazerdaze! Whakarongo mai nei!