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Another Saturday Spring, with Fables for Demogods, and Your Gig is Showing with Scott and Rob from Matakanarama.

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Filling in for Rosetta and Milly is Thursday Morning Glory host Emma Gleason with an all-music holiday special.

Some highlights of the past decade. Next week, highlights from the past year of The Ear.

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2025 highlights

Join Sara and Max for a folky and psychedelic selection for your Rāhina morning!

It's the last Kids' Show of 2025 and it's the special Christmas Kids' Show Christmas Special! Join Lee, the pixies and a host of reindeer for a very special end to the year. Thanks to the NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui o Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!

Frances Chan chats to German electronic meister Burnt Friedman in his home studio in rural Portugal about his selection of experimental jazz, and his creative processes with Atom Heart and legendary Can drummer Jaki Leibezeit. Burnt also mentions a few local luminaries he met during his visits to NZ in the late 90s/early 00s. Plus some Portuguese vibes and Christmasy cheer. Playlist: Luis Miguel – Santa Claus Llego a la Ciudad Flanger – Options in the Fire  Nuno Canavarro – Blu Terra Bernardo Couto, Bernardo Moreira, Luis Figueiredo – Arabica Flanger – Midnight Sound  Nik Bärtsch & Ronin – Modul 47 Burnt Friedman - Octrahedal Spherical Caffuffle Bohren and the Club of Gore – Constant Fear Roland P. Young – Clutch Carmen Souza – Ariope! The Embassadors – Big Amen Burnt Friedman, Jaki Liebezeit – Gulli Vereisen   Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos – Circe   John Coltrane – Spiritual Burnt Friedman, Jaki Liebezeit – 130-09  Yes – Soon Ezra Collective – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen  

On this week's show Sam look back at the year of music. In doing so, he plays some of his favourite tracks from overseas released in 2025.

The first installation of otherheavens with neeve_iv and gristle. They played a few of their favourites from times both gone by, and recent. 

Mōrena! Radio Mother's final show for 2025! Some fave tunes from us over the year! Whakarongo mai!

It's the final Plato's of the year! Fear not dear listener, Kris, Rob, and guests will return on the 10th January 2026. Many thanks as ever to show sponsor Hallertau for their support and ice old beers!

必ず今夜なら / 言えそうな気がした / silent night / holy night. Thanks to Decibel Wines.

Happy Rāmere e te whānau - it's the last day of the 95bFM Breakfast for the year!! Rosetta and Milly hit the road with Rick and Tom to give away the Summer Sorted Super Prize Pack to one lucky listener. Pitstops, ute banter, and a whole lot of fun ensues - listen in! Rosetta and Milly will be back on the 5th of January - in the meantime have a wonderful break and they'll catch you then.  Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

For this Friday Morning Glory there was no Fancy New Band, so as one of the last shows Huia sprinkled in a variety of previous Fancy New Bands from throughout the year ! Brought to you by Nz On Air Thanks to The Tuning Fork!

Friday Morning Glory with Huia! This morning we didnt have a Fancy New Band in the studio so Huia played a whole bunch of goodies to prepare the team and the listners for the 95bFM Christmas party ! Brought to you by Nz On Air  Thanks to The Tuning Fork !

Last show of the year! Today, we listened back to some highlights: Sof's kōrero with Georgia Arnold about her practice and solo exhibition Ritual at Melanie Roger Gallery in November Maya's kōrero with Sophie Greig about her practice and work in Provenance III at Ivan Anthony in September Sof's kōrero with Peter Robinson about Differences in kind and rhythm with Georgio Griffa at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery in June  And Maya's kōrero with Tui Diprose about their solo exhibition Rituals at RM Gallery in June Thank you for listening this year

For our monthly catch up with DoC, Rosetta and Milly chat with Marine Protection Ranger Shelley Ogle, about her experience working with kororā / little penguins, in the Hauraki Gulf! Whakarongo mai nei.

From Dec 27 to Jan 18, all train lines across Tāmaki will be shutting down for summer maintenance, a closure which is expected to be the last of its kind ahead of the opening of the City Rail Link.  The current measles outbreak in Tāmaki is being continually monitored, with exposure sites being updated daily on info.health.nz. The public are encouraged to track whether they've been in possible contact with the virus, and get up to date on any vaccinations to limit possibilities of transmission.  Auckland Council are supporting arts initiatives across the summer months, with Music in the Park kicking off in early January, and Movies in the Park following in February.  Producer Jasmine Gray spoke to Councillor Julie Fairey about these topics, and also asked for comment following the attack by two gunmen at Bondi Beach earlier this week.

Rosetta catches up with First Nations Artist Miss Kaninna, who is based out of Naarm in so-called Australia. Following the release of her debut EP Kaninna in 2024, Miss Kaninna has had a huge year of touring with the likes of Amyl And The Sniffers and Kneecap, and is heading back to Aotearoa in February, to play the last ever Splore! Whakarongo mai nei.  

It's the second-to-last day of Brekkie for 2025! E whai ake nei, coming up on the show with Rosetta and Milly: a kōrero with Miss Kaninna, and Just What The DoC Ordered! Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

A summery show for the last (if you're lucky) work week of 2025. Emma will be on Morning Glory on Christmas Day, so tune in next week. Thanks to The Tuning Fork

The boys saddle up for one last Top 10 of 2025. 

Yesterday, the latest six-monthly survey of housing support providers under the National Homelessness Data Project, or NHDP,  showed that homelessness in Auckland has more than doubled in the year to September. The report also found that 14 of the 21 agencies interviewed reported an increase in homelessness. As well as this, Australia's ban on social media for children under 16 has taken effect. And according to an interim report into social media harm, a social media ban for children in New Zealand is worth exploring further. And last week the Government announced the replacement of the Resource Management Act, or RMA. The coalition said its replacement will slash red tape and supercharge growth. For our weekly catchup with the Green Party, Wednesday Wire Host Max spoke to MP Ricardo Menendez March about the Government's new RMA reforms and a potential social media ban in New Zealand. But first they discussed the latest report on Auckland homelessness.

Lookbacks at 2025 ~!

Arini has one final whakataukī for our year - something to remind us of what's important this holiday season.  Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi // With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive.  

Tonight we spin some 2025 favourites alongside a couple to mark the passing of legendary guitarists Phil Upcharch and Steve Cropper. We are joined in the studio by Dusty Crates.

This week Sam reviews the year in music by playing some of his favoruite tracks released in 2025 from Aotearoa.

Blind Mango Chutney is in the chair for HIS last show of the year. The O.G. takes the opportunity to hit you with some of the the festive jazz cuts lurking in his tote bag.

"Finn's Time Travel Adventure! ft. Buzz Moller, Hugh Sundae, Kaitlyn & Tom, Milly & Wilde, and Rick!"

Mōrena! Just Joel this morning with 3 hours sleep following the 95bFM Christmas Party! Tune in to hear them struggle through 2 hours of radio! Whakarongo mai!

Kris McFang and Rob Bollix bring in a show filled with Plato's Retreat firsts: The first metal song played (as requested by Plato's youngest avid fan Louis who joins the team in studio), the first Phil Collins cover, and the first UK Grime special which runs for the last 30 minutes of the show. Many thanks to sponsors Hallertau for their support and to all the listeners (both to the live broadcast and to this podcast). Final show of the year is next week!!!

Ngā Tae Whatu - Woven Dreams is an exhibition by artists Ani O'Neill and Nephi Tupaea, currently on at Tim Melville Gallery.  With both artists being members of the Pacific Sisters artist collective, the exhibition shows five new paintings by Nephi Tupaea, and a suite of Ani O'Neill's crochet paintings in response.  In placing O'Neill and Tupaea's practices in conversation with each other – intertwined and weaved together – the space embodies the whanaunatanga that fundamentally underlies the Pacific Sisters' kaupapa. Sof had a kōrero with Ani and Nephi about the show, the Pacific Sisters, and their overall practices.

Mitchell McGrath is a Tāmaki-based designer and artist, whose work explores notions of spatial perception through these embodied material explorations of imaging techniques. That is then transferred into works of embodied materiality in spaces, experiences, and objects.  In his current exhibition at Window gallery A VIEW FOR EACH EYE McGrath presents this beautiful luminescent installation of colour and its shifting movements through space. An exploration of these fluxing wavelengths of chromatic colours in relation to our own bodily position.  The colours and form shift, and pivot as one moves throughout the space. A dance of colour that rewards a lengthened viewing—a viewing individual to each eye, person, and body, as one devels into the exhibitions shifting chromatic landscape. Maya had a chat with Mitchell about the show and overall practice.

The government has recently rejected all of the Climate Change Commission's recommendations regarding strengthening the country's methane targets recommendations. The commission's recommendations include strengthening the county's 2050 methane emission targets, continuing lowering emissions after 2050, and that international shipping and aviation, which represents 9% of the county's total emissions, should be included within targets. Despite the commission saying that there would be upfront costs, many of the changes would result in cost savings over time, however, the government rejected this claim. For our weekly catchup with the ACT Party, News and Editorial Director and Monday Wire Host Joel spoke to MP Simon Court about the government rejecting these recommendations.

Unfortunately Arini can't join us today, but e pai ana! Rosetta has chosen a whakataukī to keep our spirits high as raumati rolls in, and the kirihimete busy-ness kicks in.  Manaaki whenua, manaaki tangata, Haere whakamua // Care for the land, care for the people, go forward.  

For a very special This Is How We Brew It, Christian is in the studio making cold brew for the girls to try tomorrow! He's using our delicious bean of the week: Ethiopian Koke Shalaye - which you can text in all week to win a bag of. Plus, we've got a special eighthirty tee shirt in our prize bundle this week, to mark the festive season! Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!