Interviews from the Raglan Morning Show

Founders of the Freedom2Fly Festival, Jess & Jair Ramirez join us to talk about this year's event, what's happening and who the guest performers are.

Marve from Hakea joins us in studio to tell us about their new Food Forest course happening at the end of the month. We talk about the design and practical aspects of putting in your own food forest.

Gillian Marie is back in the studio to talk about the action planned for Raglan while we also catch up with the news from Gaza and the Westbank and look at how the media is reporting on the situation since the ceasefire announcement.

Peter Raffel, author and former Columbia University Professor is looking at running a second creative writing workshop after his first one sold out. We talk about the workshop, his forthcoming book Bad Faith, how he pursued a career in writing and get some tips on writing while we've got the chance.

After a few months of testing the team at Hua Whenua are ready to invite more growers into their online system for local food producers. Part of the Whaingaroa's Food Resilience network Hua Whenua is a click and collect system for local produce, working alongside the Growers Market.

Deb King's latest murder mystery fundraiser is situated on the Raglan Golf Course. She won't tell us whodunit but Deb has all the rest of the details about the new story - and a request for new actors to get involved.

Isaac Lee, Writer/Director of 1978 joins us ahead of the double-screening of his coming-of-age film in the Town Hall on Sunday. We find out why he choose to combine a fictional story within a real story, how important it was to get the true story right and the unique way they he funded the film and got it made.

Thyme To Cook is the new cook book by Emma Galloway and the Morning Show has been given an advance copy so we can try out the recipes. Emma joins us to talk about the new concept for her 4th book and where the idea came from. Naturally we also discuss a few of the recipes.

Note that the NZ launch date announced in the interview has been put back to 6th October with the news coming through straight after the interview.

Dermot Murtagh and Guy Burns join us in the studio to talk about this weekend's Backgammon competition at the Old School. They give us the low down on the event and who's going to be playing while also trying to explain the game to novice Aaron

New, aspiring or experienced writers are all welcome at the Word Collective. We talk to coordinator Jane Forkert about the Collective and find out how it all works.

Food sovereignty evangelist James Samuel joins us for a conversation challenging the myth that conventional food production is efficient and looking at what we can, and need, to do differently. We cover food forests, syntropic agroforestry and what the future holds.

We try to get inside the mind's of the Inkspillers Collective following the release of their latest collection of works, Backlit 3. We hear about creativity, how writing happens and also get an early insight into Wanda Barker's forthcoming novel.

Martine is the new financial mentor at the community house, and is in-studio to talk about how he can help people struggling with income, over spending, debt, bankruptcy issues and more.

Birth Doula's Michelle and Maria will be at the creative market this Sunday so we've got Michelle in studio to tell us what a birth doula does, how they're different to a midwife and why you might want their services

A regular stallholder at the Creative Market for many year, we finally get Liz on the line to talk about her busy life where she develops and manufactures all her skin care products, even producing her own labels.

It's rare to have someone from Whaingaroa running in the Taranaki-King Country electorate so we've invited Phil into the studio to talk about the decision and what he hopes to achieve

With death being such a taboo subject in our culture people are often caught unprepared for all the decisions that need to be made at the end of life. Michelle O'Donnell - Hight and Adele Van Weerden join us in studio ahead of their Death Cafe event at the Old School this Wednesday to get the conversation going.

The data is in on the WSL and while it wasn't perfect it looks like it was an overall positive experience for the community. Charlie Young and Jacqueline Anderson from Go Raglan are in studio to talk about the data collected, what it will mean next time - and if there will be a next time for the big surf event.

Not only is going electric good for the environment but these days it's also good for your wallet. Jaydan Salzke joins us from Rewiring Aotearoa with all the stats you need to encourage you to make the shift.

Dr Oliver McLeod has been doing more research on local geology, this time gathering data about the seafloor off our coast that affirms pūrākau about Kārewa, Karioi and Pirongia.

Fiona McNabb is back from Ukraine sharing her experiences of volunteering in a country at war - a return to Lviv and exploring Kyiv.

Michelle Levy joins us to explain what you need to do to make sure you can vote at this election.

If you missed out on the recent Turkiye International Cooking class or Pruning Workshops you might be able to twist Marve's arm to do them again, or maybe to even to do a workshop on creating food forests.

We also talk about Living Systems, an organisations dedicated to creating food forests in schools, marae and other public places.

Manihera Forbes, Fisheries Kaitiaki from Poihakena Marae is in studio to talk about concerns that sea life around Manu Bay is in need of protection as the Marae considers maataitai and a two year ban

Mainhera Forbes from Ngaa Mata a Karewa traditional waka navigation school will guide a Matariki star observation during Matariki. We talk about the revival of waka navigation skills throughout the pacific and his part in that process

Tonya and Penni join us to explain what's going on with the surprsing popularity of the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever annual event. We get the low down on when it started and where, when it will happen in Whaingaroa and where you can get lessons.

We talk to Hahona Ormsby ahead of his talk at the Old School on Wednesday 1 July. We talk briefly about his experiences, how how his family reacted to the news he was going and comparisons between the colonial experience in Aotearoa New Zealand and what's happening in Palestine.

Genevieve pops in to the studio to talk about this year's Daffodil Day preparations, along with why she got involved and the help she needs to do fundraising this year.

Fiona Edwards, John Latimer and Lauren Mills from the Raglan Community Pool Trust join us to talk about their plans for a community pool. They tell us about their plans to date and why they think they can pull off a project that the community has been wanting for a long time.

Anna Cunnigham joins us in the studio to give us the low-down on this weekend's by-popular-demand, family friendly community celidh. dancing a good time for all is promised.

We catch up with Rangi Kereopa ahead of the new Raranga Exhibition that a crew of local weavers are putting on at the Old School - opening this Thursday.

Kieran Hallgate is in studio to talk about the new after school care business he's starting with Thomas Cashen at Raglan Area School. They're getting underway in Term 3 so we check in on how the planning is going and what people need to do to book in.

Erin is looking for your vote to go on the WEL Energy Trust so we sit down with her to find our what she stands, what she does for her main job and how that relates to a role on the Trust

The project to create a protective connection between the two Waikato Maunga is 5 years old. Bexie, who is the project coordinator has good news about the future of the project as we also celebrate the first five years.

Bexie joins us to talk about one of her jobs as a yoga teacher and to celebrate 10+ years of The Space.

John and Aaron try to make sense of the candidate statements for the WEL Energy Trust Elections. It's a tricky job because there's not enough information available about candidates but they do their best.

Jami Dickson from Go Raglan joins us to talk about this Thursday's community meeting where they'll present the results of a survey of local businesses and have a discussion about workforce issues.

We say goodbye to our podcaster Annika Stricker ahead of her flight back to Germany. Annika has hosted and produced the How To Make It Work Podcast for much of the last year while also contributing to the local newspaper. We ask her what she's learned about Raglan through her podcast interviews and tell her she's welcome back any time.

Raglan Community Radio DJ Michale Robins has started another record label, Crayon Records, with the purpose of preserving, producing, and pressing timeless local jazz and eclectic music. It will be home to the music of Jonathon Crayford with the first release being his album Big Foot.

We talk to Michael about the how's and why's of his new venture.

Tom Noble joins us to talk about his Fruity Quiz Fundraiser this Saturday at the Old School. The aim is to raise money for a beach friendly floating wheelchair for Whaingaroa. Unfortunately tickets have sold out but donations can still be made at the ticket site (Humanitix) and if there's enough demand Tom has promised to put on another quiz for those who missed out!