Welcome to Thursday's MG! Eli slots in for Denzel while they're off galivanting in Melbourne. Step inside the genre whirpool for a couple of hours. Remix of the day goes to Loxy, Ink - Need You (Calibre Remix). Sending out love! 

PS: no stew tomorrow sorry

Rachel chats to Jennifer Curtin about Cabinet's recent re-prioritising, and the events at Waitangi.

Delaney tells us all about different ways to cook fish! Whakarongo mai nei!

Delaney tells us all about different ways to cook fish! Whakarongo mai nei!

Rachel chats to Jennifer Curtin about Cabinet's recent re-prioritising, and the events at Waitangi.

On Saturday February 18th, Auckland Pride will be marching in solidarity with our intersex community. 

This year, the festival is encouraging the rainbow community and its allies to elevate important issues for our Intersex community in our fight for progress and educate ourselves in variations of sex characteristics. 

News & Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Jelly O’Shea from Intersex Aotearoa, an organisation that looks to affirm and advocate on behalf of people born with variations of sex characteristics, otherwise known as intersex, about this kaupapa. 

We started off our interview discussing why it is important to hold space for the Intersex community during pride

Our weekly catch up with the ACT Party returns for 2023. This year, we’ll be hearing from ACT Party MP Karen Chhour. 

News & Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins speak to Jelly O’Shea from Intersex Aotearoa about their collaboration with Auckland Pride this year. 

And Liam Hansen interviews Iokapeta Magele-Suamasi about The Ōyster in Ōtara, a newly revamped art exhibition space in the town centre. 

This week on the biggest show on the radio... Ice is back! That's right, Callum Passells returns for another crack at the Bag Of Ice Challenge... can he eat an entire 3kg bag of Party Ice during our 2 hour broadcast? Better listen in to find out. We also premiere a brand new track from Office Dog, and discuss what day Ice Cube was talking about in his song "Today Was A Good Day"... all while counting down the biggest songs of the week. 

In the lead up to the 2023 General Election, The Wire will be speaking to ACT Party MP Karen Chhour about the political hot potatoes of today and tomorrow. 

For their first interview, News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins asked Chhour about why she got into politics and ACT’s thoughts on the inquiry into the Auckland floods.

The Bard returns with gifts of poetry, the bees knees, elephant sneezes and ponders humankind's propensity to see faces in just about anything.