Welcome to the mid-week show! The Mind Trench is back as per usual with the bees knees and elephant sneezes. Rachel speaks to Savina Fountain and Aubrie Mitchel from BIG FAN about their programme Ignite, a new initiative for rangatahi wanting to enter NZ music scene. Whakarongo mai nei! 

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

Chill vibes, prize give aways and more!

Savina Fountain and Aubrie Mitchel from BIG FAN chat to Rachel about Ignite, a new initiative for rangatahi wanting to enter the music scene in Aotearoa.

Savina Fountain and Aubrie Mitchel from BIG FAN chat to Rachel about Ignite, a new initiative for rangatahi wanting to enter the music scene in Aotearoa.

This Week on Dear Science Casper and Milly are joined by Joel Rindelaub back in the studio. Joel gets to the bottom of what happens when you eat a lego head - with research that involves the acronyms SHAT and FART. They also discuss Exxon Mobil's historic and accurate research into the fossil fuel contributions to climate change as well as the power of the Fjord in storing and releasing carbon to act as its own temperature control. 

With the election coming up this year we’re starting to see the formation of concrete policy platforms with one major topic this election being the cost of living.

Prime Minister Hipkins calls their approach a focus on ‘bread and butter issues’ whereas National has come out with a 5-point plan to ‘get inflation under control’.

Casper discussed this plan with National's Shane Reti, beginning by asking him to explain the first point, a proposal to end the reserve bank’s dual mandate.

With Germany and the US agreeing to send main battle tanks to Ukraine, attention is being brought to the major foreign policy approaches that ideologicaly inform such decisions.

To get a sense of two dominant international relations theories in play in these decisions I spoke to Robert Patman, professor of international relations at the University of Otago.

This week on the Tuesday Wire, Milly speaks to Elizabeth Kerekere from the Green Party about perpetual land leases, an outdated law that has some big consequences for Maori land owners. 

I tēnei ata Rachel speaks with Jazmine Rose Philips about the Festival of Live Art, Adam Rohe talks 'Man Lessons' on Stage Direction with Alice, and Tim Hazeldine talks about Universal Basic Income on Ready Steady, Learn!