Actor, artist, and playwright Morgana O'Reilly drops by the studio for a kōrero about the return season of her fantastic show Stories About My Body. Catch it at Q Theatre from the 30th of November until the 3rd of December! Whakarongo mai nei to hear all about it. 

Rachel chats to Izzy, Lola, and Halle from LA's Automatic ahead of their show at Whammy on the 15th of January! Whakarongo mai nei! 

Not even a hoard of cancelled buses can thwart the Viewmaster's quest to bring us his weekly TV recommendation. Today he reckon chats check out Wednesday, the new series about Wednesday Addams on Netflix! 

We're back in the Appalachian Hills today, chatting about Experimental Bluegrass! Grab your fiddle, grab your jug! 

The COP27 summit has recently concluded, resulting in some more plans to tackle climate change being put in place but less effort on wide scale action with the urgency needed. 

The international conference took place in Egypt, and saw a new focus on implementation and the way climate change disproportionately affects developing nations.

Liam had a chat with Climate Minister and Green Party Co-leader James Shaw about his outlook after attending the conference, and the current state of climate policy in NZ. 

A brief warning that this story contains multiple mentions of suicide.

A new Ipsos study has revealed that three quarters of New Zealands youth has experienced immense mental distress and fourty percent have seriously considered self harm or suicide over the past year.

This issue isn’t only taking place for young people, though - 61% of  people between the ages of 35 and 49 said they were stressed to the point they couldn’t cope, and 30% reported feeling suicidal. 

With Aotearoa holding one of the highest youth suicide rates in the world, the mental health foundation sez that the current system is in crisis, and urgent action needs to be taken.

Liam Hansen spoke to the MHF CEO, Shaun Robinson, about the Ipsos survey and what needs to change in Aotearoa to improve our suicide rates.

The show kicks off with Professor Jennifer Curtin talking us through the events of the day on Political Commentary, then Reuben Hudson phones up from Naarm/ Melbourne to chat about his EP Cloudhead, Jim's got some gardening tips on Greening Out, and Voom's Buzz Moller chats about their new track with Fazerdaze! Whakarongo mai nei! 

Since the 2019 Christchurch terrorist attack, the Labour Government has been looking to expand our hate speech laws. 

Under the Human Rights Act, people in Aotearoa are protected from hate speech on the basis of colour, race, ethnic or national origins.

The Government initially proposed extending this to other groups who are vulnerable to harmful speech, including women, disabled people, and queer people. 

But the government announced this week that they will only make one amendment to hate speech laws to include religious communities and are seeking broad support across parliament. 

95bFM News & Editorial Director spoke to Activist Shaneel Lal about the changes.

New reports have recently revealed that, despite the government's investments into mental health, there are the same number of acute mental health beds available in Aotearoa as there were five years ago. 

This report has also come as new ministry of health figures have shown some improvements to the general health sector since 2017, as well as new possibilities for pharmacists to treat minor ailments. 

All that and more was covered in Tuva's chat with Health Minister Andrew Little for this week. 

New reports have recently revealed that, despite the government's investments into mental health, there are the same number of acute mental health beds available in Aotearoa as there were five years ago. 

This report has also come as new ministry of health figures have shown some improvements to the general health sector since 2017, as well as new possibilities for pharmacists to treat minor ailments. 

All that and more was covered in Tuva's chat with Health Minister Andrew Little for this week.