In this week’s On The Dial, we talk international students, being young and plus-sized, we have the latest from the Wellington theatre scene, hear from comedian Alan Davies, and dissect Meghan Trainor’s latest music video.
After several years of decline, international student numbers are on the rise again. Thousands more students are coming to this country, especially from India. Radio New Zealand Insight looks at the risks posed by this growth and the blurring lines between education and immigration.
Renee Iosefa, a 22-year-old, fashion-loving female who likes earl grey tea, going to the beach, and trashy reality television, wrote this week about being overweight, or curvy, or big-boned, or any of the other euphemisms people use instead of the word fat. She speaks to “fatshion” blogger, Meagan Kerr.
Meghan Trainor’s latest single, Dear Future Husband has inspired this week’s #hottakes. Horrifyingly catchy, it a playful throwback, complete with a barbershop quartet, but also to baking pies and buying groceries.
And not everyone is buying the empowerment that Trainor is selling. (Video contains explicit lyrics.)
We speak to Genevieve Fowler, Ben Fagan and Saran Goldie-Anderson about their parody video.
Fresh off the Wellington fringe, and full of good things in New Zealand theatre, Sherilee Kahui joins us in the studio to review what she’s seen lately.
And Alan Davies is incredibly well-known for playing the bumbling fool opposite Stephen Fry in QI, or as the eponymous magician-detective in Jonathan Creek. But before all that, in the 1990s, he was best known as a standup comedian. He had a ten-year break from standup as his TV and film popularity grew, but he's now touring his second standup show since he made a comedy comeback. He speaks to Charlotte Graham.
On the Dial was produced by Megan Whelan, with technical production by Jeremy Veal, and financial assistance from NZ on Air. Our music was composed and performed by Eddie Johnston, and the cover image was made by Hadley Donaldson.
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