Jenna's got the perfect wintery read for you. Whakarongo mai nei to hear all about Winter Time by Laurence Fearnley.

Up today on The Swap meet @95bfm it's the final show for July so it's the badman Campbell Ngata at the controls, with aural excursions into sweet soul, jazz funk, disco, latin, highlife, new soul, and on and on! Dial it up! @soul_scourer @kirkjames13

Kirsten's back and hoping for some dancing. Finds most good music is good for dancing, even the slow ones. With some new releases thrown into the mix. 

Blind Mango Chutney remembers Michael Henderson's significant contribution to jazz from Miles Davis's On the Corner album, a tribute to trailblazing saxophonist Barbara Thompson, plus an interview with drummer extraordinaire Chris O'Connor from Trioglodyte, who have their monthly residency at the Wine Cellar coming up this week.

Setlist:

Nothing new this week, just a mixture of oldies but goodies and some deep cuts thrown in for good measure.           

In the aftermath of the US supreme court overturning Roe v. Wade, the United States House of Representatives has been passing several bills in efforts to protect certain rights. 

These include protecting same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, and contraception. 

With the US House, the US Senate, the supreme court and the president all seeming to have different levels of power, it can be hard to understand the different levels of authority in the leadership. 

This prompted Liam to talk to UoA professor Maria Armoudian about the system and the recent bills the house have been passing. 

Theo Gold comes in with some sneaky first spins in tow. Whakarongo mai nei to hear about his upcoming album Thundering Prince of the Devil Bony Devil which is out late September! You can also catch him play at Wine Cellar on the 18th of August. 

Some cool Friday stuff for ya: We've got Travelling Tunes with Dr. Zemke, a kōrero with Theo Gold, a bMovies review with Steve Newall, and a chat with Julie Zhu about Kāinga. Whakarongo mai nei! 

On today's episode of Strangest Things- Is the Loch Ness Monster plausible?

Historically, sceptics say no - the most similar being to the cryptid is the plesiosaur dinosaur who has never been found in freshwater circumstances like Loch Ness. 

That was, until a group of British scientists discovered plesiosaur fossils in a moroccan river system. 

Are any doubts of the Loch Ness Monster's existence now thwarted? Probably not, but Liam spoke to David Martill from the University of Portsmouth anyway.