First Mark Honeychurch joins Graeme Hill to expose hoaxes, woo and scams for what they arent. Mark takes a look at Jehovahs Witnesses, following his recent trip to a three day convention held by the religious group. He takes a look at the way the event ran, the speakers and the group as a whole. He looks at their perspective on worldly pursuits and how the organisation uses politics. Additionally he looks at Jehovahs witnesses on entertainment, and on being worldly in the way they dress. Then, Steve Kilbey of The Church fame gets up close and personal with RadioLIVE's Graeme Hill. He discusses his life, influences, and just how hard is it to kick heroin? Hes an expert - hes done it 8 times. Everyone was just sharing and getting AIDS Kilbey talks Graeme through his early life, how he went from novice to legend, and the bands that inspired him to take the plunge. Born in England, he describes himself as an "english wog" who has always had "a foot in both camps". He takes a look at how this changed his stylistic approach to the music he was writing, and how it helped create the sound of The Church. I dont like ACDC...BogansHe also looks at how moving to Sydney started it all, because he "couldnt get anyone to listen to my musicCanberra was really sterile"Known primarily as the singer-songwriter and bass guitarist of The Church, Kilbey is still rocking out and writing. The band will be heading out on their Starfish Anniversary tour later this year. Getting down to the nitty gritty Graeme asks Kilbey "lets talks drugs" to which he replied "Got some?" They discuss drug legalisation, decriminalisation and his own experiences with substance abuse. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

First up, its time for Graemes grievance of the week. In light of Aretha Franklins passing this week, he takes a look at songs that spell out words take RESPECT for example. Graeme shines a light on the laziness of people who use spelling as a song filler. Then Paul Casserly joins RadioLIVEs Graeme Hill to take a look at the goofs and gafs of the media this week. They take a look at Rebecca Sealfon, a clear example of how to use spelling effectively and with purpose. Then the pair take a look at this weeks racist row.Senator Fraser Anning came out this week offering the the final solution aka. A white Australia. Numerous commentators have come out making comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust, although this was not his intention. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone

Shipwreck Tales make a brief return so we can make the archive complete. This week John McCrystal regales the horrors of a true big ship disaster from Canada in 1914, The Empress of Ireland. Pictured is the damage sustained by the Storstad hitting and sinking the big liner. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

First up Graeme revisits the sweet tunes of the Sugar Man. Then, Environews. The Department of Conservation has just released a new comprehensive scientific survey on the status and health of all our fresh water fish. DoCs freshwater things person Nicholas Dunn walks us through what it says and some of our lesser-known incredible creatures left stranded from the last ice-age. But what to do about Whitebait? Heres a picture of one of your whitebait grown up. Three whitebait species are either at risk, declining or endangered. Should we be harvesting endangered native species? Forest and Birds fresh water things person Annabeth Cohen advocates for our wildlife and discusses the current regulations surrounding whitebaiting. She also takes a look at the sustainability of fishing for whitebait. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone

First up we are at the movies with James Croot. James takes a look at Mission impossible and the latest shark movie to hit our screens. Then, Max Cryer is a New Zealand living treasure in both entertainment and etymological spheres. He joins Graeme Hill to banter over the origin of words, their origin and meaning. First up Max looks at the origin of the word plastic. Then he ponders the question- why is petrol called gas? And finally Max takes a look at where the box is in box office. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

Marine biologist Rochelle Constantine joins RadioLIVEs Graeme Hill to take a look at our marine reserves and their ecological management. Dr Constantine describes the effects of our Marine reserves on our wider marine environment. She also takes a look at new ways to protect special ocean ecologies. Astronomer Grant Christie joins Graeme Hill to talk the latest in astronomy news.First up they take a look at the amazing story of Eta Carinae - a superstar. Dr Christie dicusses how Faint echoes of light illuminate what really happened during the Great Eruption of Eta Carinae in the 1840s.. Then Dr Christie explores a recent optical navigation from Hayabusa2s first gravity measurement of the asteroid Ryugu.54 images have been captured from Hayabusa2s first decent toward Ryugu, which brought it as low as 851 meters away from the asteroids surface. Then the pair explore the martian moon Phobos. The moon passed in front of the sun resulting in a solar eclipse. Said eclipse was captured from the surface of mars. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

This week Gerard Hindmarsh joins RadioLIVE's Graeme Hill to discuss the amazing story of Thomas Brunner.

Gerard explores the unbelievable 555 day journey of exploration undertaken by Brunner alongside a small guide party. The group travelled deep into the unknown tracks between Nelson and the West Coast. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

First Graeme takes a look at the Plain English Awards. Entries close at the end of August! The Plain English Trust Chair Gergory Fortuin explains what its all about. Then Imtiaz Shams has been using his personal experience of leaving Islam to found tech for good start-ups to help people who leave conservative religions. In 2012, he began creating underground railroad networks for ex-Muslims around the world. He describes what it was like for him to leave and its not pretty He discusses why there is a blind-spot in many progressives towards the oppression of women, gays and apostates by Islamic authorities. Imtiaz was a guest of the New Zealand Rationalists And Humanists. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

Siouxsie Wiles joins RadioLIVE's Graeme Hill to expose hoaxes, woo and scams for what they arent. First up Dr Wiles takes a look at recent claims that Monsantos products are linked to harmful chemicals and in turn cancer. This is in light of allegations made against the companys product round up that resulted in an American man winning $289,000,000 USD in damages. Then the pair takes a look at psychics, and how a case from 1996 is making people question Sensing Murder. Dr Wiles also explores those setting themselves up as therapists. Then Professor Graham Le Gros of The Malaghan Institute of Medical Research joins RadioLIVEs Graeme Hill. WARNING WARNING, this is not an easy listen. Prof Le Gros describes the wildlife that occasionally and sometimes permanently inhabits the human body and cripples many societies prospects. At least a Billion people, yes a billion, are infected with the hook-worm and in many places it is so chronic and endemic that those societies will never reach their potential. He also gives some valuable advice and warnings not to be complacent especially in tropical destinations, even the popular well worn ones. There are some videos of a couple of the parasites Graham speaks about on the RadioLIVE webpage. DO NOT watch if you are even slightly squeamish. The videos are almost certainly more repulsive than you think they might be. You have been warned. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

This hour Tamar Munch joins RadioLIVE's Graeme Hill for Media Stick - the weeks media guff and gaffes laid bare for fun. First up Tamar and Graeme have a look at hate speech. Then the pair explores Sandy Hook denial and the latest from Alex Jones. Twitter is the wild west Jones struck out at Mueller recently claiming paedophilia. They take a look at the cult of the baby and how Jacinda Ardern made headlines for publicly breast feeding this week. Tamar discusses the plastic bag ban, and how ISIS made the ban first. And finally they explore Judith Collins latest Twitter fiasco. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.