Tovawamba: Peters versus the punks
It’s the full story of Chumbawamba-gate, including an exclusive interview with a founding member of the band on the prospect of legal action against New Zealand First and their ongoing fight for contr...
21 Mar 202457min
An interview with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
This week we received an eleventh-hour opportunity for a short interview with the Prime Minister. On the agenda during his visit to Central Districts Field Days: police pay, tax cuts, Ruby Tui and his...
14 Mar 202435min
Seymour talks tax
This week we had a long conversation with ACT leader David Seymour about his ideological position on wealth and tax. That was for a specially themed episode of the podcast, coming very soon. We also t...
13 Mar 202416min
America's 'orange wrecking-ball'
Super Tuesday supercharged Donald Trump's drive for another term in the White House. Anthony Scaramucci, the White House communications director Trump fired after just 11 days, joins us from New York ...
7 Mar 20241h
'Everyone deserves to live in dignity'
This week's podcast investigates our emergency housing crisis. As promised at the end of the show, here's Tova's full interview with the mother who gave us a frontline perspective. Learn more about yo...
3 Mar 202431min
Blood, faeces, vomit and cockroaches - inside Aotearoa’s emergency housing crisis
Almost 6500 people live in emergency motels, nearly half of them children. One mother, who needs short-term help through no fault of her own, offers a frontline perspective after rejecting a filthy mo...
29 Feb 20241h 1min
Our precious: Movies, money and maintaining Sir Peter Jackson’s legacy
It’s 20 years since Kiwi cinema’s greatest night, when the final film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy won 11 Oscars. Two decades on, the film sector contributes more than $3.5 billion to the economy ...
22 Feb 20241h 17min
Purple reign: Should the blue and red parties combine for an unstoppable coalition?
There's criticism that the tails are wagging the big dog in the coalition Government. And, with $1.2 billion wasted on Three Waters, and an influx of other infrastructure issues in the Government in-b...
15 Feb 202456min
