Ange helps you out with cold feet, cat allergies, and indigestion. Whakarongo mai nei. 

Tim wades through media soup and pulls out stories on David Farrier's reporting on Arise Church, Willie Jackson's comments on the new public media entity (TVNZ/RNZ not-merger), Tova O'Brien's interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and five Auckland Mayoral candidates banding together to contest their media coverage. Whakarongo mai nei. 

The Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments in a case that could decide whether polluting companies are breaching important duties to New Zealanders. 

Sitting at the Environmental Court in Auckland, the Supreme Court will make a decision as to whether or not to strike out a claim against New Zealand’s 7 biggest emitters of greenhouse gasses by a Northland man who says they are breaching well-established common law principles by contributing to climate change.

Mike Smith is the climate spokesperson for the Iwi Chairs Forum, and is claiming that ongoing pollution by corporations such as Fonterra, Genesis and Z Energy has damaged his Whenua and sites of cultural and historical significance to him and his whānau.

To discuss the legal aspects of this case, as well as the role of tikanga Maori in the decision-making, Emilia Sullivan spoke to Geoff McLay from Victoria University Law School.

This week on the wire for Rāapa Wednesday!

Alex speaks to Brooke van Velden in his weekly chat with the ACT Party deputy leader.

Emilia will be talking to Geoff McLay from Victoria University Law School about the Supreme Court hearing a case that could hold New Zealand’s biggest polluters accountable for the harm they cause.

Aneeka chats with our European correspondent Cameron Adams about Ukraine, the EU’s proposal on the Iran Nuclear deal, free period products in Scotland and more.

And finally, Emilia will also be chatting with Tristan Meyers from NIWA about the atmospheric rivers the country will be experiencing this week.

That's us for the Wednesday Wire this week!

Another outstanding Top Ten, counted down by the professionals Annabel Kean and Callum Devlin. In addition to A-Standard radio hosting, Kean and Devlin play four songs all called Real Love, then Callum plays some spooky scary western-tinged music from cool new movie Nope!

Today we're going for real groovy and cruisey music. All to hide my animosity towards my mother, who gets to fly to Hawai'i while ill stay in New Zealand. But it all subsides as the show goes on.

On this week's installation of Eurovision, Aneeka chatted with our European Correspondent Cameron Adams about Ukraine, EU’s proposal on the Iran Nuclear deal, free period products in Scotland and more!

In this week's chat with the ACT party Deputy Leader, Alex chatted with Brooke van Velden about law and order.

A long-lived atmospheric river is landing on New Zealand shores today, which NIWA says could lead to “well over a month’s worth of rain” this week, especially in parts of the South Island.

To get some more insight on what atmospheric rivers are and what impacts they can have, Emilia spoke to Tristan Meyers, a Meteorologist at NIWA.

The German Horn, March Kings, jumping fleas, and don’t you f*#king dare misname the xylophone.