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Featuring a guest interview with Ladyhawke following the second lineup drop for The Others Way, Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke, and Breakfast Food with Lucinda Bennett!

Holy smokes! The second lineup drop for The Others Way is out of this world, listen back to Jonny chat to legend Ladyhawke about all the goodstuff lined up for this year's festival. 

Litia has returned from Fiji, and is back to tell us all about Nobody Wants This the new romcom series on Netflix starring Kristen Bell - it's juicy, silly and worth a binge!

Dr Kirsten Zemke chats to Jonny about the Caribbean genre Calypso on this week's Travelling Tunes!

Clementine returns to the bFM studio to play their new tracks (think Modern Baseball) for Fancy New Band! Thanks heaps to NZ on Air 

For Stage Direction this week, Alice Canton speaks to Ravi and Jayshri Ratnam about Tiffin Box on at Basement Theatre from the 8th-12th October. You can get tickets here. 

Another Friday morning with Lucia brought to you by the lovely Tuning Fork! 

Clementine joins for Fancy New Band thanks to NZ on Air Music. 

Artist Ana Iti (Te Rarawa) has been announced as the winner of the $50,000 Walters Prize 2024 for her sculpture and sound installation ‘A resilient heart like the mānawa’. Sofia had a kōrero with Ana about celebrating the win, the creation process behind this work, and what’s next for her and her practice. 

Beth had a kōrero with curator James Gatt about from elsewhere, a collaborative exhibition currently showing at Te Uru Gallery which aims to address the notion of being ‘from elsewhere’.

For Stage Direction this week: Alice Canton is in to chat with Ravi and Jayshri Ratnam from Prayas Theatre about Tiffin Box on at Basement Theatre from next week.

And to round-off the show, we have your arts guide - giving you the low-down on artsy happenings in Tāmaki this week!

 Last Friday, the winner of the Walters Prize for 2024 was announced, as chosen by this year’s international judge Cameroonian Berlin-based Professor Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. 

The $50,000 Walters Prize - which is now awarded every three years - was decided this year between artists Owen Connors, Juliet Carpenter, Brett Graham and Ana Iti.

On Friday, artist Ana Iti (Te Rarawa) was announced as the winner for her sculpture and sound installation entitled ‘A resilient heart like the mānawa’, which is currently on display alongside the other candidate’s works at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. 

Sofia caught up with Ana about celebrating the win, the creation process behind ‘A resilient heart like the mānawa’, and what’s next for her and her practic