This week Zoë Larsen Cumming speaks to James Shaw about the Climate Emergency declaration set to be announced by the government this week, along with the Green's stance on the Five Eyes Intelligence Network regarding recent statements by the Chinese government. 

I tēnei ata Nigel Borell (Pirirākau, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Te Whakatōhe), Curator of Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, popped in for a kōrero about the new exhibition Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art, which opens at the gallery this weekend. It will be the largest exhibition the gallery has ever hosted, and will survey contemporary Māori art dating from 1950 until today. Whakarongo mai nei to hear more! 

Need help with your employment? Not sure about your rights? Justine joins us on Red Dead Redemption for some union advice on annual leave payouts, formal warnings, and becoming a union rep yourself.

Suri's been reading more non-fiction this week, and brings us Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis. A book about what a fair and equal society might look like in a post-capitalist universe.

Penelope Noir brings us a new era of Fashun this morning, we're talk 90's club kids. What a time.

Today on your bFM Breakfast: Easing you into this grey Monday morning with some quality tunes; Pennie pops in to talk us through the Fashun of 90's club kids; Nigel Borell joins us in the studio to talk about Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art; Suri's back into the non-fictions with Yanis Varoufakis' new book; and Justine helps you navigate employment on Red Dead Redemption. 

This week Zoë Larsen Cumming speaks to James Shaw about the Climate Emergency declaration set to be announced by the government this week, along with the Green's stance on the Five Eyes Intelligence Network regarding recent statements by the Chinese government. 

Two guests on the show this week ! Both with new singles out ! A chat to Barry Saunders about the new Warratahs song, New World and play a couple from the catalogue, and Dianne Swann in the studio to talk about her new one - These are the days. Plus tracks off a new Jason Molina collection, my boy Sammy Brue, Adam Hattaway and the Haunters, Drive by truckers and Hackensaw Boys, The Growlers and Ryan Bingham...

A typically strong set from Def Jim, Cherry Pickin' Entrances Of Light in the Midnight Sun with Redemptive Grace, including plenty of Tranquil Beauty in the Last Desert Under The Volcano, The Heroic Rescue at Golden Hill and only Twelve More Bars To Go.