Today on the Wednesday Wire, we start with Dear Science with Allan Blackman joins us live. Christina Huang and Allan chat about robots performing surgery, fossils that are over two hundred thousand years old, and a bubble that did not pop for over a year.

Jemima Huston speaks to ACT Party Deputy Leader Brooke van Velden about her party calling for an end to MIQ, as well as what she thinks New Zealand’s response to the Ukraine crisis should be. 

Aneeka Moheed talks to Liam Rutherford from NZEI Te Riu Roa about pay parity in the education sector and the problems for early childhood educators. 

Jemima interviews Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Carmel Sepuloni about the latest announcement of $121 million worth of Covid-19 relief funding for the arts and culture sector. 

Christina looks into food waste and how people are tackling it in Aotearoa and Australia. She speaks to Ellen Fogarty from Flinders University in Adelaide, about a recent study she conducted on food waste recycling in the hospitality sector. Christina also talks to some of the people leading the fight against food waste: Nick Loosley, founder of Everybody Eats; Madeleine Cull from For the Love of Bees; and Gavin Findlay, CEO of KiwiHarvest.