95bFM: The Thursday Wire with Hamish Fletcher

95bFM: The Thursday Wire with Hamish Fletcher

The bFM WIRE Today: 12 - 2pm weekdays For links toWindows Media Player & 128kbps Streams Go To: http://www.95bfm.com/default,live.sm

Coming up on the show today:

12:15

I’ll be interviewing Consumer New Zealand chief executive Sue Chetwin to discuss an investigation and damning critique of our financial advice industry. Consumer NZ has slammed companies that offer financial direction on investments and pre-retirement plans, with Chetwin claiming advice is "scandalously poor" and that advisers are portraying themselves as independent when this isn’t necessarily the case.

1230

Discussions around an “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” have begun in Korea with representatives from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States all coming to the table to try to beat the trade of fraudulent and pirated goods. However, there are concerns that these talks are being hijacked by the entertainment industry, and that copyright lobby organisations may have in fact turned treaty negotiations to suit their own agenda. It’s difficult to know exactly what is going on because high levels of secrecy, but Jordan Carter, the Deputy Director of Internet New Zealand, joins me to discuss these talks and the invasion of the copyright lobbyists.

12:50

I’ll play a short interview I did this morning with Tramways Union President Gary Froggat about the meeting between NZBus and bus drivers and cleaners that took place yesterday and the failure of both parties to resolve their industrial dispute.

13:10

I’ll play an interview I did yesterday with Dr Maartje Abbenhuis, a senior lecturer in European History at the University of Auckland, about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Maartje spoke about how even though the wall fell two decades ago there is still the ‘wall in the head’ for many Germans and also the problems (and resolution) that the wall provides for notions of German national identity.

Then at 13:30

It’s time for Dear Science, your weekly look on the Thursday Wire at science, technology and the internet. Peter Griffin from the Science Media Centre in Wellington will join me to discuss about the Motu report suggesting there's no productivity gains from faster broadband, Africa’s call for the need to ‘follow the science’ when considering emission targets, and the unfolding of the Nutt Affair in the UK.

Then at 13:40

Pennie will be in for Papercuts, your weekly magazine review. Today, Pennie reviews BRM (Beyond Race Magazine), which claims content on “groundbreaking” music and culture.

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