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Ratbags Racing Show-03-10-2025 Chris Craddock explores the potential winners of the weekends racing Play Episode
Great Tracks and Sidetracks-01-10-2025 This is a recording from a live broadcast. Peter Fleming brings you an entertaining 90 minutes of popular music, mostly gleaned from the 1970’s and 1980’s but not excluding music from any era. Play Episode
Special Feature - World Space Week with Haritina Mogosanu and Sam Leske Astrobiologist Haritina Mogosanu and astrophysicist Sam Leske will blow your mind in this quick conversation (relative to the universe) about World Space Week. Is there life outside of our earth? How big is the universe, are we all made of stardust? How big is the Milky Way and how can you measure it. So many questions, so little time. A teaser of a conversation to get you interested in this world celebrated week. For more information visit https://www.astrobiology.nz/haritina-mogosanu-executive-director-nzan/ and https://milky-way.kiwi/ Play Episode
Great Tracks and Sidetracks - Top restaurant, car problems and The Archers UK pub wins top restaurant rating. Problems with en route car charging. Hidden meanings in Mungo Jerry hit? The Archers to take to the stage and the quest for Macca's Bass. Play Episode
Live Interview with Otaki Kids Market stall holders Deanna and Aurora Otaki kids market is on Sunday 5th October - listen in here to a couple of enterprising children - Deanna and Aurora - and head up to Otaki and support them at the market on Sunday Play Episode
Concert Notes - Highlights of the 2025 Season Wendy takes us through music that highlights the 2025 from the Waikanae Music Society. Play Episode
Meet The Candidates 2025 - Joanne Welch In this episode, we chat with another of the candidates for this years local body elections. Play Episode
Soundwave - ep148 - Soul, some covers, and fine singers Funky soul, a couple of cover versions and some fine singers from Aotearoa all feature this week Paul presents a music programme featuring Jazz, Blues and Soul, from old to new. Play Episode
Tales from the Top Shelf - with guest Andi from Island Gin Join host Suzie Carrig as she "travels" the country talking to passionate and knowledgeable craftspeople about their unique stories in the fascinating world of distilling. Play Episode
Community Notices - 29 September 2025 Community Notices for Kapiti and Horowhenua, broadcast on Coast Access Radio. Play Episode
Ordinary Life - On / Off Dealing with the pain of medication wearing off and the various Parkinsons symptoms this gives us. Swinging from on (everything's great) to off (everything is bad) is disabling and exhausting, but we just keep on, keeping on! Kitty Fitton is on a mission to prove that disability and illness doesn’t mean the end of life as we know it. She writes about hating exercise, coping with blended families, Parkinson’s, and trying to reach the bottom of the laundry basket. Play Episode
Write Your Story - Jan Fletcher Our special guest on our programme is local resident Jan Flecther, who shares two of her cameo stories with us. The title of the first is called Scattering My Mother’s Ashes, and in the second, Becoming a Public Servant Jan shares her teenage aspirations and commitment to work for the greater good in New Zealand, the process involved in getting the job, and the reality of how the role unfolded. Write your Story is a series of stories, written and narrated by their authors. These "new" authors bring us a story they have put together recently and share with us all. Play Episode

 

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3/10/25 - 3/10/25
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
The Morning Show
Join us weekday mornings for the latest news from our community, local weather, loads of music and special guests
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Solid Gold 60's
Solid Gold 60s with Geoff Dorsett
1:00 PM - 1:10 PM
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Supersonic 70's
Supersonic 70s with Geoff Dorsett
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Kick up the 80's
An independent show produced by British DJ Geoff Dorsett. Geoff takes us back to the 80’s with classic 80's tunes and long forgotten classics and throws in interviews and quizzes.
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Retrospect Garage Punk
'60s garage punk, garage rock, proto-punk, freak beat and psychedelia from the entire planet. Your regular toe-tapping trip down memory lane this ain't! This is a weekly show hosted by Phil Grey and first broadcast on Free FM [Hamilton, New Zealand]
11:00 PM - 11:59 PM
Friday Night Blues
The Friday Night Blues Show is a trip through the wonderful world of the blues. Blues music comes in many styles and can be happy or sad, slow or fast, loud or soft. I cover all these on each programme through a wide range of artists

 

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