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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.
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.
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From the desk of Renee Mundy, 95bFM Radio, News and Editorial Director