Sam's got TV for us to watch this weekend (phew!) and it's called Love Life. Anna Kendrick stars in a series filled with love and feel good moments. Sam reckons this one will get you thinking about your exes.

Drop Shadow is the new album from New Zealand native Luke Rowell, and his first release under the Eyeliner name since 2015’s Buy Now.  The album explores Rowell’s fascination with American and Japanese music culture and their many intersections. bFM Newsboy, Corey Fuimaono, gave Luke a call on Discord and the two had a mean as chin-wag.

Today on the Wire Jemima covers for Mary-Margaret and Ollie. She speaks to the Cheif Executive of the National Foundation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Natasha Gallardo about how the widespread use of masks is impacting the hearing loss community. 

Ollie brings us The Week That Was, a new segment rounding up the very best (or worst) of the news week.

For our 2020 Election Coverage on housing issues, Mary Margaret speaks with journalist and commentator Rod Oram about a fair housing system in Aotearoa. 

Oscar wraps up the show with City Counselling. He speaks to Auckland Councillor Richard Hills about the Environment and Climate Change Committee. 

With the new community outbreak of Covid-19 the government is strongly advising that everyone wears masks or face coverings when in public. However, there are hundreds of thousands of people with hearing loss that struggle to communicate without being able to lip read. Jemima Huston speaks to the Chief Executive of the National Foundation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Natasha Gallardo about how the government's approach to combating Covid-19 is negatively impacting the deaf and hard of hearing community in Aotearoa

Ollie has found the top news items of the week and Jemima breaks them down on the Wire. 

In January of 2002, the cost of a house was four times greater than the median income. By the same month in 2020, the cost of a house sat at 9.8 times greater the median income. For The Wire’s week of analysis of housing policy this election, Mary-Margaret spoke to journalist and commentator Rod Oram. She asked about capital gains, and if our housing system benefits landlords over citizens. Firstly, she asks Rod about what led to this statistic, and where it puts Aotearoa in the OECD.

In the interview, they refer to page nine of this compilation of statistics.

Towards the end, they discuss New Zealand’s place in an interactive graph in The Economist.

Rod also recommends this Economist article, and this index published by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Development.

Today on your bFM Breakfast: Back doing Breakfast during this beautiful winters morning; Jennifer Curtin joins us to talk politics, international and back home; Nat gives us some comfort food when all we really want to eat is pasta; and we've got plenty of tunes to get you through.

Jennifer Curtin joins us to give us the lowdown on what's happening internationally and back home. Plenty to talk about, eh?

We're in the times of ultimate comfort food, and Nat's got plenty of recipes to help us out. Talking spaghetti al limone, spaghetti aglio e ollio, cacio e pepe, kale pasta and break-up pasta (not what it sounds like).

On Neighbourhood Watch today, Justin spoke with Radio Adelaide’s Zoe Kounandais about the latest news from Australia. They talk about TV network Ten has announcing it would cut jobs and newsrooms around the country and centralise the production of weekday bulletins in Sydney and Melbourne. They also discuss the Royal Commission criticism Australia’s Covid-19 response in aged care homes.