The Raglan Morning Show

Aaron comes out of retirement to host a special episode ahead of Maui Dolphin Day - talking to the Maui & Hector's Dolphin Defenders and also to Kiwis Against Seabed Mining.

Aaron invites a bunch of DJs into the studio for a pretty random conversation about 2025 and music and anything else.

The second-to-last Morning Show of the year. We look at the weather and surf and the small list of things on the What's On Guide, then we try to nail down Raglan's values with Stephanie Philp.

All your local news and information, great music and a chat with up and coming Raglan musician Star Knuiman

Today we catch up with WDC Mayor Aksel Bech and Raglan Bowling Club President Alan Price, we also check out the activities for the coming weekend and have a look at the mediocre surf on offer today

Today we bring you a terrible surf report and a not-great weather report too. More importantly Maree is back for our Lets Talk segment for the first time in a few months and Annika pops into the studio to talk about her podcast How To Make It Work.

Another busy day in Whaingaroa as we chat to Soulti about her new single and get John Lawson in the studio to look over 2025's headlines.

2025 review time as we look back at a couple of our favourite interviews from the year. We also check out the school holiday programs and catch up with the news from the World Junior Surf Competition where some locals surfers are competing.

We've got your local news, surf and weather, plus an interview with Raglan Community Board Chair Ross Wallis

We're taking a look at what's happening this weekend and talking to some new stall holders at the Creative Market about a Skin Feast, a new skin care project and a group of young local artists taking their first step into their creative career.

All your local news, surf and weather info plus we have Finn Mackesy in studio to talk permaculture.

Another beautiful day in Whaingaroa as we talk to Ngaronoa Renata with medicine for the people, plus take in some sweet tunes and sweet surf reports

Another glorious morning in Whaingaroa as we check on the future of tourism in our community and have a chat with Mike Jewell about the importance of fun. We also check out pretty nice surf and weather reports

A busy morning as we talk to our Councillor Lisa Thomson and Cole Martin who is doing a talk in Raglan about his time in the West Bank. We also get some local news for you plus surf and weather reports.

We have a look at what's happening for the coming weekend, talk to Shona from the Old School about movies and Ryan about a food forest planting bee at the Area School. We also have a quick look at what happened at the Community Board meeting yesterday.

More Music, Less talk goes the cliche and the morning we do our best to focus on the music and not overload you with information - but it is hard to shut Aaron up completely.

A big focus on local politics today as we welcome John Lawson to the studio to look at everything from the details of tomorrow's community board meeting to the big changes proposed by government. We also check out some pretty nice surf conditions and a weather forecast with thunderstorms!

Summer arrives with a blustery day and some messed up surf but don't worry we have a chat with Lani Puriri about how to cope with change and we get you all the local news including good news about Maui Dolphin Day!

We look ahead to the weekend, catch up with Ross Wallis, Chair of the Community Board and also talk to Helen Parsons about her new studio in town.

It's a quiet Thursday in Raglan, the surf is poor and weather can't make up it's mind but Aaron's got some great new tracks and a chat about end-of-life matters

Today we catch the latest seabed mining news and talk to Robin from Future Farms. We also take in a mild surf report and try to make sense of dueling weather forecasts.

Tuesday morning and we've got some local news, a mediocre surf report and conversations with Ngaronoa and Jemma & Emma from Xtreme Zero Waste.

This morning we're talking about Wednesday's Biodiversity Forum and taking a look at our Mind's Control Panels, as well as doing the usual surf, weather and What's On for Whaingaroa

We check out the weekend events, and catch up with the Whaingaroa Palestine Solidarity Group and also our Councillor Lisa Thomson. We've got a pretty nice surf report too.

Aaron returns after a week away and get straight into the weekend's activities, surf and weather before interviewing Mayor Aksel Bech about changes he's making at council.

Last day from Aaron for a while so we get 3 interviews and some surf, weather and music. The show talks to the crew from Hikoi for Hauora, Ngaronoa Renata is in studio and then we catch up with Dick Move ahead of their show at The Yard this weekend.

A gentle start to the week with greay skies and a fair surf report. We also chat to Mike Jewell about fasting.

We're on the cusp of another busy weekend as we take in a conversation with Carissa about Auora Hauora at the Creative Market plus we chat to our man in New York, Ben Lenzner about the surprising NYC Mayoral vote that is bring hope to people concerned about the trajectory of politics in the US.

We look ahead to the weekend with our famous What's On Guide and conversations with loop musician Ash Sales and Creative Market stall holder Lauren who does bespoke book binding.

It's another beautiful day in Whaingaroa as we look ahead to the Freedom2Fly Festival, look at permaculture and food resilience, plus take in the surf reports and what's on guide.

All your local news and info, plus surf and weather as we do a political roundup with John Lawson and look back to the 90s to a community effort to get a pathway built in Raglan West.

Local news and info, a meek surf report and promises for a week of fine weather greet us this morning. We also talk to Lani about Sophrology and find out who the latest opponents to seabed miners Trans Tasman Resources are.

All your local news and info, what's happening this weekend and the votes are in for the Community Board and Regional Council. We talk to new RCB Chair Ross Wallis and get a local news bulletin going.

A better surf report but grey skies this morning as we catch up with what's happening this weekend, find out about who the Chair's are for the Raglan Community Board and Regional Council and talk to the Old School and to touring musician Christof van der Ven.

Local news, surf and weather, we look at what's happening in town today and talk to the Karioi Project about some bad news during the nesting season.

The studio has declared war on the DJs with the back-up mixing desk now broken. Listen as Aaron attempts to make a 30 year old desk with a broken mic channel do the job properly. In amongst the feedback and sudden volume changes you can here local news, info and surf plus a chat with Ngaronoa Renata.

Labour weekend is upon us with art and music lovers about to arrive in town so we look at the many things happening over the next three days and talk to Maurice from Cala and talk to our last artist of the week as well.

A super busy morning today as we look at the many events on this weekend, catch up with Travis from the Surf Club and talk to several artists from The Hatch, the emerging artist exhibition from Raglan Arts Weekend.

Another busy morning as we talk to Sarah Johnson and Joan Fleming about Raglan Writers Day, before turning to Raglan Arts Weekend where we talk to Seb Hart about his art and his exhibition opening on Friday night, and then Yaniv Janson about his exhibition and the community canvas event he's hosting.

Another busy show this morning with some pretty dodgy weather and surf and then a conversation with artist Harrison Synnott before we cover the local body election results with John Lawson.

Surf's up and the weather is OK as we look ahead to a week of art and interviews with Nicky who is organizing the Raglan Arts Weekend and Stephanie Philp about getting outside your comfort zone.

The Morning Show is back after a couple of days off. As usual we've got the weekend's events but it's a pretty quiet one while we wait for the crowds coming for Labour weekend at the end of next week. In preparation for that we talk to James Ray about the part he'll be playing in the Country and Blues Festival. We also talk to Lisa Thomson who has just been returned by voters at the Whaingaroa Ward Councillor.

Local news and info plus a truly awful surf report. We also chat to Ngaronoa with our Kairongoa segment.

We've got the updated election results, plus an interview with the new Mayor along with the usual surf and weather - and a chat with Mike Jewell about meditation.

We've got all the weekend action, local news and interviews with Campbell Forlong about running 52 Marathons in a year - and we celebrate the football career of Xavier Meade who has finally retired at age 74

The Technical Difficulties Episode. Aaron has replaced the broken mixing desk with an old one immediately before going on air. Fortunately this is a podcast so we've cleaned up most of the mess and you can hear our interivews about the Creative Market and also Live and Local at the Old School this weekend.

Wednesday is the good weather day this week but the sun isn't out yet. Join us on the Morning Show while Aaron fights with the technology before settling into a chat about traditional hand poke tattoo art in the second half of the show.

Local news and info, plus we look at the election which closes at the end of the week and also a bit of Raglan History at the end of the show.

Join us for a gentle start to the new week and we get the local weather and surf reports, find out how the Scholastic Surf team did and talk per-menopause with Irma Schutte.

We check out the many events of the weekend, talk careers and the graphene conspiracy and check out the national scholastic surf comp where our rangatahi are competing in Taranaki.