On tonights the show: we're talking to Dr Lynn Riggs about new W.H.O "housing and health" guidelines ... film buff Dan Slevin with all the Oscars news in case you missed it and on The Word tonight the Katherine Mansfield Monton Fellowship has received a legacy fund of $300,000. Sarah Dennis, Chair of the New Zealand France Friendship Fund is in our Wellington studio to tell us about it...

Weather Report for the Weekend Festivals. Kiwi Rules with Matthew Crawley from Outsider Sounds Festival.

Tax Working Group Report - what's the score? Max Whitehead takes a look at Triangular Employment.

Sky TV subscribers are set for a price rise on the 1st of April and Midweek Mediawatch with Jeremy Rose.

Drug testing at Otago University O-Week. Stef Animal joins us for a chat.

what's eating Eden Park Stadium, how social media helped post quake in Christchurch and taking a look at the NZ Booklovers Awards.

Tonight on the show: The common or garden seagull is not so common or garden it appears ... in fact the birds are severely at risk, but not many people are aware of the decline in numbers. Sophie Barker, the Marketing Manager for the Otago Peninsula Trust will be with us shortly... Auckland University student-radio station bfm is 50 years old this week and Russell Brown makes an argument for why they've still got it ... and on Kiiwi Rules tonight -- where an artist plays it forward -- it's the turn of Hamish Kilgour who is currently on tour ...

Playing politics at the select committee. Writing older characters for the stage. Kiwi Director's Chef's Table plays at the Berlin Film Festival.

The Senkaku Islands - watching the rocks. Midweek Mediawatch

Parts of New Zealand are likely to see dramatic increases in fire danger as climate change occurs.Grant Pearce is a wild-fire expert and he's with me in a moment to discuss the implications, New Zealand Pork says people who bring in undeclared, dangerous food should be put on the next flight home. The Chairman of NZ Pork, Eric Roy, is on the programme and we're talking about the issue of artists' resale royalties... that's where an artist - or their estate- is paid a percentage of the sale price every time their art piece changes hands...