This week on the Wire, Bronnie opens with a COVID-19 update, as Auckland's move to alert level three coincided with the show's starting. 

After is the weekly chat with NZ First’s Tracey Martin where they talked about the repealing of the Oranga Tamariki subsequent children provisions.

This week's election coverage topic is housing, so Bronnie contiues her conversation with Minister Martin to focus on how immigration, seniors and children tie into this issue.

She then speaks to Greg Street, an Eco Design Advisor from the Hutt City Council about how we can make new houses as well as the houses we already have, healthier, cheaper to run and more environmentally friendly. 

Lastly, is an interview with Food Frontier Founder and CEO, Thomas King about their new report finding that  plant-based meats are healthier for you than their conventional counterparts. 

As part of our election coverage on housing, Bronwyn speaks to Greg Street, an Eco Design Advisor from the Hutt City Council about how we can make our houses more healthy, cheaper to heat and, as a result, more environmentally friendly. As well as talking about existing and potential government policy, the two pondered the question: why don't New Zealanders demand better?

For 95bFM's Election Coverage this year, Bronwyn Wilde speaks to New Zealand First's Tracey Martin about housing policy. They discuss how immigration, seniors and families and children are affected by housing issues. 

As public consciousness grows about the environmental, health and animal welfare effects of meat consumption, so does the market for plant-based meat alternatives. The question is, how healthy are these substitutes? And how do they compare to the conventional meat products they look to replace?

Bronwyn speaks to Thomas King, Founder and CEO of Food Frontier about the findings of their new report which reveals that not only are plant-based meats on average nutritionally superior, they don't carry the same health risks. 

As part of our election coverage on housing, Bronwyn speaks to Greg Street, an Eco Design Advisor from the Hutt City Council about how we can make our houses more healthy, cheaper to heat and, as a result, more environmentally friendly. As well as talking about existing and potential government policy, the two pondered the question: why don't New Zealanders demand better?

Today on your bFM Breakfast: It's a gloomy ol' morning out there, but nothing a good Breakfast Show can't fix; Second Guessing wakes us all up; the Mayor dials in to talk about Kauri dieback, Zero Waste, and Museum cuts; Zoë's thrilled because Basement theatre is reopening; and Priyanka from the University of Auckland joins us to talk engineering.

A very exciting morning for Zoë as the Basement theatre is reopening. This week she reckons you can get yourself along to all the shows in one night, head along to James Nokise's God Damn Fancy Man, followed by Bubbah's My Ode To South Auckland, Dear Ebony and of course, Snort.

The Mayor dials in to talk about Kauri dieback, the Zero Waste scheme, and Auckland Museums recent cuts in their performances.

This week on Ready Steady Learn we're chatting to the University of Auckland's Priyanka Dhopande about aerospace thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, you know, airplanes and spaceships. Priyanka chats to Rach about her research overseas and here in Aotearoa and what it's like to be a woman in the engineering space.

As part of 95bfm's Election Coverage 2020, Hanna speaks to Manawatū Tenants' Union Coordinator Ben Schmidt for a pro-renter perspective on the amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act, and what policies they would like to see from the next government.

For an opposing view, check out Hanna's interview with NZPIF!