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Wednesday morning glory host Liv is your bosom selecta this fine morning! Catch them every Wednesday from 10am - 12pm, or online via the bCasts, for awesome tunes, plenty of waiata reo Māori, and their wonderful native bird segment 'Me and all my haumis love native manu'. Whakarongo mai nei!

Jenna joins Rosetta and Milly in the studio for a kōrero about a thrilling new pukapuka - Elaine Costillo's Moderation. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!

Happy Rāhina! Things are off to a brilliant start here at bFM, with a fire alarm in the middle of the news (lol). Also on the show this morning: Whakataukī o tēnei wiki with Arini Loader, This Is How We Brew It with Agnese, Loose Reads with Jenna, and bosom selecta with Liv! Plus, a chance to win tickets to Kate Bollinger and a copy of Bar Italia's new album on vinyl! Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

Dr Arini Loader is back on air with Rosetta and Milly to share a whakataukī for our wiki! Whakarongo mai nei! Ko te pae tawhiti whāia kia tata, Ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tīna // Seek to bring distant horizons closer, and sustain and maintain those that have arrived.  

It's Agnese's last week with us for This Is How We Brew It! For the very special occasion, she whips up a lovely (and exclusive!) Ethiopian filter coffee for Rosetta and Milly, and the trio chat about the eighthirty standard - a delicious blend that we're giving away this week! Whakaorongo mai nei! Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

  It's the Return of Mango! Yes, Blind Mango Chutney returns to the decks with a jazz appeciation of Summer & Spring. He also marks the sad passing of drummer Jack DeJohnette, one of the greatest drummers in modern jazz, working with the likes of Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, & Miles Davis. And he spins the very first jazz record that sold a million copies—and it's not what you think! Listen in .... It's the 95bFM Jazz Show, sponsored by San Ray.

Special guest tonight is friend and sponsor of Border Radio, Garrick Wynne from Studio 1 Vintage Guitars who plays some favourites tracks.

RIP to the great Jack @DeJohnetteMusic - we spin a couple for him including Miles electric, solo gears and sideman material. A decent swath of new material (@Antibalas, @Peyton, Salimata, Natalie Slade, @svenwundermusic, Droogie Otis @YourOldDroog @madlib, and vintage faves in the mix today. Slip slop and slap it on.

Mōrena! Some spooky tunes, and some new tunes from a variety of genres! Whakarongo mai!

Eva During is a multidisciplinary artist, and recipient of the arts house trust and Dunedin School of Art graduate exhibition scholarship 2025. Eva works within spaces of sculpture, ceramics, audio and installation, in which she navigates the complexities of personal identity through her experience as a first-generation immigrant.  Her current exhibition at the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead, Under the Bridge, follows Eva’s journey as she retraces the path of Aotearoa’s first Chinese immigrants. Visiting these historic sites of the goldmining settlements of Lawrence and Arrowtown, through tracing the path of the Clutha river.  Throughout the journey, Eva collected these organic materials of the land's temporal memory, bringing them back into the studio in which the organic materials were transferred onto pieces of material that Eva then hand stitched into 100s of shā bāo that form a river bed along the gallery floor. Bringing together a beautiful display of collective memory and dialogue that speaks to the quiet strength that is passed down through generations of Chinese immigrants.  Maya caught up with Eva about the show and overall practice.

What we choose to remember is a group show bringing together artists Hiria Anderson-Mita, Köken Ergun, Tada Hengsapkul, and Kulimoe’anga Stone Maka, currently showing at Gus Fisher Gallery.  Together, through their respective practices and materiality, the artists question and inquire into ideas of nation building and national identities – each contemplating different histories of the respective geographical and political landscapes they connect to, questioning the way we remember these pivotal moments. With a plurality in voices, the space invites a reflection on the multiplicity of experience, but also the closeness of these respective accounts. As a whole, the exhibition asks us to reflect on these narratives and connect them back to our present – if this is how these moments in history have been remembered, how will we remember our present when it too becomes history?  Sof had a kōrero with Director and Curator of Contemporary Art at Gus Fisher Gallery, Lisa Beauchamp, about the show, the artists’ works, and the thematic conceptions that bind them.

Sof had a kōrero with Director and Curator of Contemporary Art at Gus Fisher Gallery Lisa Beauchamp about their current group exhibition, What we choose to remember. And Maya caught up with artist Eva During about her current show on at The Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead, Under The Bridge. 

Happy Rāmere, and Happy Halloweeeeeeen e te whānau! Rosetta and Milly, AKA Newsboy (Jeremy Wells) and Mikey Havoc, are ramped up and chatting all things spooky szn today. There might even be a freedom call or two in there... e whai ake nei: Travelling Tunes with Kirsten Zemke, From The Crate with Charlotte from Southbound, and your last chance to win Yurt Party's '200' on vinyl! Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

Kirsten Zemke is talking all things vintage halloween music on Breakfast today! Whakarongo mai nei! Song selections: Nightmare - Jack Turner  I Was a Teenage Monster - The Keytones  Transylvania Twist - Baron Daemon and the Vampires

Charlotte joins Rosetta and Milly to chat about the latest releases, out on the shelves today! Whakarongo mai nei! Song selections: Belair Lip Bombs - Hey You Ritual howls - Follow The Sun  Chelsea Wolfe - Iron Moon Thanks to Southbound Records!

Charlotte Ryan checks in with 95bFM correspondent Molly, who ventured down to Ōtautahi to catch all the action at the 2025 APRA Silver Scroll Awards Kaitito Kaiaka at the Isaac Theatre Royal. Whakarongo mai nei to hear from the Silver Scroll finalists on the red carpet and some highlights from the night's proceedings. 

This episode of bLine, heads to Te Whanganui a Tara for Tu Māia ki Te Ao: The Future of Democracy Forum, run by MakeIt16 and the New Zealand Centre for Global Studies. Aimed at discussing the various challenges that democracy has faced and what potential solutions could look like, the event featured a range of panels and workshops with various experts, politicians, and activists. This week we discuss the various struggles that democracy is facing in Aotearoa and what we can do to build a better system for the future.  Thanks to all of our guests, MakeIt16 national coordinators Sanat and Caeden, research director at the Institute for Democratic and Economic Analysis, Max Rashbrooke, general manager of YouthLaw Aotearoa, Darryn Aitchison, and Associate Professor of Politics at Te Herenga a Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Lara Greaves. Thank you also to the New Zealand Centre for Global Studies and MakeIt16 for organising the forum. Happy listening!

The Government has finally released its long coveted curriculum rewrite for subjects ranging from Science to Drama. The new curriculum has faced growing criticism from sections of the education sector, with some calling the new curricula old fashioned, criticising it for sidelining Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Maori Knowledge  Thursday Wire Producer Sanat spoke to Professor of Maori Education Georgina Stuart about her views on the changes specifically to New Zealand’s Science Curriculum and whether those changes are fit for purpose.