RDU 98.5 FM Breakfast With Spanky

The mighty Alphabethead came down to the RDUnit to play an epic set and this is the reult. On tour for the Flying NUN 30th Anniversary he also played at local venues The Roastery and darkroom - mean!

Spanky talks to the education spokesman for the Maori Party on the inevitable clashes with Act over policy. What will National do with their two fueding kiddies?

Spanky talks about Act's New Plymouth Chairman Morris Hey confronting John Key in a mall about not honouring Nationals deal with ACT on the Epsom candidate...sounds like someone got the wrong end of the stick.

Spanky grills Nicky Wagner, National MP for Christchurch, as well as coversations with musician Timothy Blackman and Professor Leo Paul Dana on the Amish community. He also gets the latest news from Tauranga from Dr Brett Gartrell who is in charge of the beach clean up and chats to New Scientist blogger Michael Slezak.

Spanky talks to Kath Taylor, Chief Executive of Maritime NZ about the Rena boat disaster as well as Catherine Savage, Chief Executive of Maori Tertiary Education Orgnaisation Te Tapuae o Rehua on her submission to the Central City Draft Plan meetings and talks about movie "Shark Night" with movie reviewer Andrew Todd.

We spoke to good ol’ Garry Moore this morning, the God Father of our fair city because we really wanted to hear his opinion ob Bob Parker’s media attention during the quake aftermath. There was a report which was amended, written by the senior civil defense manager at ECan that said Bob’s media presence contributed to a crisis situation being depicted by the media. ALSO we wanted to find out a little bit more about the ‘community’ he lived in for 10 years.