This week we are all about Chaka!

"bFM: Into the Finn-Verse"

Frances Chan lounges on the exotica sofa to start the show, then highlights her favourite acts from Womad Aotearoa 2025, plays a Jarrett twofer and marches out on the funk.

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This week's show featured new music from Pulp, Black Country, New Road, Marlon Williams, Kenny Stirling and more. Sam also paid tribute to Blondie drummer Clem Burke who died last week.

Stopp, Seisku Aeg!

In 1975, a makeshift museum opened on a farm in the Māniototo region of Central Otago. The main feature of this new attraction was the nearly 300 high-end fashion garments on display in an old tractor shed. 

Amassed by a successful but quietly spoken high-country farmer, J Eden Hore, the collection has been called one of the most significant of its kind in Australasia.

Central Otago: The Eden Hore Collection is a new publication by dress historian and curator, Jane Malthus, and Senior Curator of New Zealand Culture and History at Te Papa and fashion historian, Claire Regnault, featuring photography by renowned photographer, Derek Henderson, in association with Te Papa Press. The book had its official launch party at Melanie Roger Gallery earlier this week, where prints of Henderson’s photography of the Eden Hore collection are being exhibited until 17th April. 

Sofia caught up with Jane Malthus and Derek Henderson about the history of the Hore collection and making of the book.

Extra-terrestrial doula VIDA joins bFM for a kōrero as one of the finalists for Best Independent Debut Awards for the upcoming 2025 Taite Music Prize. 

VIDA chats with Sofia on Morning Glory about their debut EP Aquatopialien. The ep revolves around the story of alien Takavi who "was jamming in space, the jam got too fire... they fell down to planet earth and had to raise the earth's place and space through sonic sound and frequency".

Aquatopialien is fluid, nourishing, and wet. Through the eye of Takavi, absurdity explores mundanity, evoking a yearning for something you can't explain, or do not yet know. 

Jo Randerson phoned in to chat with Alice Canton about Speed is Emotional on at Q Theatre from 16 April - 3 May. You can find tickets here.

Cadence Chung is a poet from Pōneke. Her poetry has been featured in Aotearoa publications such as Bad Apple, Landfall, Starling and The Spinoff. Her chapbook, anomalia, was published in 2022.

Mad Diva is their latest collection of poetry, published by Otago University Press on April 8th. It is rich in imagery of divas in opera houses, art galleries, dive bars, bedrooms; in the purple light of Farmers at dusk and in Wakefield Street at midnight.

Beth had a kōrero with Cadence about Mad Diva, and how opera and poetry informed the other in her creative process