Host: Sarah Pritchett - Producer: Chris
Hill - Executive Producer: Renee
Mundy
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Today on The
Wire
bFM News with Aroha
Those who
live in or near Grafton are steaming mad at Auckland City
Councils proposal to make historic Gratfon Bridge, a bus
only route. And estimated 1500 busses may roll over that
road every day, making it very noisy for locals. Chairman of
Grafton Residents Association David Haigh will join us
today.
Michael Carroll, convicted multiple
rapist was granted parole in Feburary. ACT Spokesman on
Justice Stephen Franks has called the Parold Board ''the
dumb agent to do the goverments dirty work". Prison staff
say he is one of the most savage men in New Zealand.
Stephen Franks joins today to tell us what he thinks is
wrong with the current Parole Act, and why it should be
changed.
The International Whaling Comission
meeting in Berlin finished up on Friday, Conservation Chris
Carter joins us with an update of the final
moments...
In the House with Scoops Alastair
Thompson, who brings you the latest in domestic politics
straight from Welling -town.
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We speak to
Stage Two Productions about their first major production of
the year - "Top Girls". Set in Thatcher's London in the
early 1980s, Top Girls takes a clear-eyed look at the
price of success, traced through one woman's climb to the
top of the corporate ladder.
Mark Easterbrook
skims over the Montana Book Awards Long List nominees on the
Book Review.
And Susi NewBorn, who's mother
took Eva Peron (Evita) shopping in Harrods, had a pet
gorilla and puma as a child and was chauffeur-driven to
school in Buenos Aires in a leopard-skin upholstered Rolls
Royce, while Susi grew up in an exclusive English boarding
school and on the Italian Riviera. But as she grew she
chose a very different life, one of nvironmental activism.
She was a founding director of Greenpeace who now lives on
Waiheke Island. And today on the WIRE she shares her almost
unbelievable story....
Coming up this
week:
Tomorrow Join Mark Easterbrook and Olivia
Kember.
Aucklanders can tune in at 95 on
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From the desk of Renee Mundy, 95bFM
Radio, News and Editorial Director
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