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The Free Breakfast

Join our team on The Free Breakfast! Featuring diverse music, including a weekly feature artist, regular and one-off interviews with people from the wider community and RNZ News. The Free Breakfast is truly LIVE and LOCAL breakfast radio! If you or your community group are up to anything exciting, give the station a call to discuss a live [or pre-recorded] interview and we"re always keen for promotional giveaways!

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The Free Breakfast – Bike Waikato - 25-09-2024

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2024/09/24

Melissa Smith, co-chair and spokesperson at Bike Waikato, joins us for a fortnightly update.

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0:10:6

The Free Breakfast – Bike Waikato Update - 11-09-2024

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2024/09/10

Nerding out about Te Awa Pekapeka.

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0:8:20

The Free Breakfast – Waikato DC Update - 11-09-2024

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2024/09/10

Farewelling Kiingi Tuheitia and welcoming the new Queen.

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0:18:21

The Free Breakfast - Mayor Paula Southgate – 09-09-2024

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2024/09/08

Hamilton Mayor Paula Southgate joins Mike Williams to discuss council's new credit rating from Standard & Poor's, plus progress with Local Waters Done Well, the new Peacocke Bridge opening, and some comment of the recent Local Government NZ conference.

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0:17:3

The Free Breakfast - DeepINsessioNZ – 05-09-2024

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2024/09/04

#SSSD, host of #Deep_InsessioNZ speaks with Cate Prestidge about musical culture, some of his work in the electronic music scene and what excites him about the future of the scene.

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0:9:3

The Free Breakfast – Waipa DC Update - 04-09-2024

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2024/09/03

Created by Free FM, Hamilton, New Zealand

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0:18:26

The Free Breakfast - Johanna M Rae – 29-08-2024

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2024/08/28

Johanna M Rae is a Hamilton author who has been publishing fantasy genre novels since 2011. She joins Cate Prestidge to talk about her work and writing process and gives a peek into the work she'll be presenting at the Authors Showcase for Hamilton Book Month on Saturday August 31.

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The Free Breakfast - Sandie Haddock – 29-08-2024

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2024/08/28

The central library might not be so quiet on Friday as students from years 5-8 compete in the Waikato Book Battle! Sandie Haddock from Waikato Literacy Assn joins Cate Ptestidge to talk about the event being held on August 30 as part of Hamilton Book Month.

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0:15:36

The Free Breakfast - Louise and Gareth Ward – 23-08-2024

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2024/08/22

Mike Williams talks with Gareth and Louise Ward, the dynamic duo behind a new novel ‘The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone’ which is now in its third week at #1 on the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list. They’re not only former police officers and authors but the proud owners of Wardini Books in Hawkes Bay.

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The Free Breakfast - Kirsten McKenzie – 23-08-2024

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2024/08/22

Kirsten McKenzie is an ex customs officer turned writer. A fan of archeology and Ancient Rome, she joins Cate Prestidge to talk about Ithaca Bound, the first book in her time travel Ithaca series. Kirsten will be presenting at The Author's Showcase for Hamilton Book Month.

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0:11:59

The Free Breakfast – Liz Stolwyk - 21-08-2024

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2024/08/20

Waipā deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk speaks from the annual Local Government Conference in Wellington.

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0:17:16

The Free Breakfast - Tracey Slaughter – 15-08-2024

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2024/08/14

Award winning writer and academic Tracey Slaughter has just released her latest poetry volume 'The Girls in the Red House are Singing'. She joins Cate to talk about the different parts of the collection, her writing process and the way some specific themes she was immersed in have universal meaning. Tracey's book will be launched at the Poetry Celebration for Hamilton Book Month.

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0:16:38

The Free Breakfast - Chris Tse – 15-08-2024

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2024/08/14

The 13th National Poet Laureate, Chris Tse talks with Cate about the laureate role and balancing writing and the business of creativity. He also talks about the value of the arts for education and society. Chris will be in Kirikiriroa to MC Poetry Celebration for Hamilton Book Month.

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0:10:51

The Free Breakfast – Georgie Dansey on Te Huia -...

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2024/08/13

Georgie Dansey from the TRON (regional travel by rail) advocacy group talks about Te Huia's stay of execution - and where to from here.

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0:9:27

The Free Breakfast – Waikato Mayor Jacqui Church -...

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2024/08/13

This week: Economic outlook.

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0:19:23

The Free Breakfast - Caroline Barron – 08-08-2024

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2024/08/07

Writer Caroline Barron has followed her award winning 2020 memoir Ripiro Beach with a novel, Golden Days. She talks about the 1990's night-life which influenced it, as well as the three authors who will be appearing on the memoir panel she is chairing for Hamilton Book Month on Friday August 9.

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0:14:37

The Free Breakfast - Craig Hoyle – 08-08-2024

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2024/08/07

Craig Hoyle grew up in Invercargill within the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren. In this reflective interview he speaks about his early life, being excommunicated from the church and the discoveries he made about other 'missing' family as he wrote his memoir 'Excommunicated'. Craig is in Kirikiriroa as part of Hamilton Book Month.

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0:15:53

The Free Breakfast – Bike Waikato - 31-07-2024

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2024/08/06

Melissa Smith, co-chair and spokesperson at Bike Waikato, joins us for a fortnightly update.

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The Free Breakfast – Liz Stolwyk - 07-08-2024

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2024/08/06

Update on what is going on in the Waipā district, particularly Cambridge, from deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk.

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0:18:48

The Free Breakfast – Lexie Matheson discusses Paris...

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2024/08/05

Lexie Matheson is a double international sports representative for New Zealand in karate and archery. She is actively involved in international sports leadership and has valuable insights into the current gender debates, trans-inclusion in sport and social media outrage around the Paris Olympics.

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