Welcome to the first episode of the One Wammo podcast. A weekly dose of interviews and opinions taken from RDU Mornings on RDU 98.5FM in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE
- How real is the terrorist threat in New Zealand? Paul G. Buchanan is the Director of the Working Group on Alternative Security Perspectives at the University of Auckland He started his professional career training US civilian and military intelligence officers and was a consultant to US security agencies until his emigration to New Zealand in 1997. He has written an essay called Of Myth and Reality in Terrorist Threat Assessment.
- Best selling author and philosopher Alain De Botton chats about his new book The Architecture of Happiness. Alain De Botton says the one of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by.
- The Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark discusses
- the current Waikato River treaty claim as well as Helen’s personal connection
- Communications Minister David Cunliffe’s Telecom and Vodafone comments
- How does Helen let out steam especially over the last few weeks
- Budget aftermath in particular the focus on tax cuts
- Is Helen missing ACT’s Rodney Hide and Heather Roy?
- Swear words becoming more acceptable on TV
- How does the Beehive effect Helen emotionally?
- Are back benchers as useless as Michael Laws says?
- Should New Zealanders buy kiwi made no matter what? Philip Lewin from The Trade Liberalisation Network doesn’t think so.
- David Slack from Public Address discusses some news stories from the past couple of weeks.
