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After an incredible Breakfast show due to a live performance by the one and only Reb Fountain, Elle attempts to match that freak with her show today. Listen back to see if she was able to do so. 

Ngā mihi nui, The Tuning Fork!

The free school lunch program has been in the headlines here in Aotearoa for several weeks after facing significant impacts to their quality and delivery following a complete restructure of the program led by associate education minister David Seymour.

Many schools have reported late deliveries of meals beyond the lunch period, plastic packaging melting into the food and one student even experiencing burns from the packaging that required medical attention.

This, of course, has the greatest impact on the more than 150,000 Tamariki living in severe poverty, who relied on programs like Ka Ora Ka Ako to receive daily meals.

In response, the Child poverty action group has made a call to senior government ministers and Finance Minister Nicola Willis to restore the funding that was cut from the school lunches program so that schools across the motu could receive meals from local community suppliers.

Oto spoke to Rich Greissman - Deputy Chair of the Child Poverty Action Group's Governing Committee, to discuss the group’s call and why it’s important for the government to ensure the provision of healthy school lunches to Tamariki.

Featuring What's Up? with Green Party MP Steve Abel, the Aural Emporium, and Reb Fountain live in the lounge thanks to Boring Oat Milk.

Featuring an interview with Ben and Crystal from Phoebe Rings discussing new music, shows and their awesome new single Asurei, Short Player with 1800PRIVATEDRIVER thanks to NZ On Air Music, and Ready Steady Learn thanks to the University of Auckland. 

Oto and Jaycee played a variety of shoegaze and dreampop tracks by artists from across Southeast-Asia and had a chat with Daystar, a Singaporean artist who recently dropped a track called 'washed up' in the lead up to his upcoming E.P.

Oto and Jaycee had a chat with Singaporean alt-pop/shoegaze artist Daystar, aka Evan, about his newest single, washed up, as well as his musical influences, collaboration with Singaporean producer Sun Cell and his overall journey in the Singaporean music scene.

This week on the Tuesday Wire...

For Dear Science this week, our expert, Professor Allan Blackman, chatted with us about seal blood oxygen levels, phrases boosting citations, and an Australian man importing plutonium.

In our weekly catchup with the National Party’s Tom Rutherford, I ask about Sam Uffindell’s new private members bill and Winston Peters’ war on woke. 

They also speak to Senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, Dr. Charlotte Oyston, about a proposal to increase the maternity hospital stay period. 

And producer Amani spoke with former NZ Herald editor Dr Gavin Ellis on why he believes a digital-only strategy could shatter the future of the NZ Herald, and how he feels about the recent board-overhaul