Join us on Tuesdays at 10:05am from 7th September when Helen Charters will conduct 1-hour in-depth one-on-one interviews with mayoral candidates in the forthcoming Local Body Elections.

Later, there will be two forums where the aspiring and incumbent mayors of both cities meet to debate issues of public interest which will be put to them to each give answers to.

Other council candidates will also be using airtime on Radio Kidnappers to publicise their individual messages to the voting public.

Details of dates, times and interviewees are listed on the MEET THE CANDIDATES page on our NoticeBoard.

The 24/7 streaming for all Access Radio stations is now in the process of being domiciled via a new provider, using new equipment. One of the several advantages is that the new stream is now heard via an inbuilt Live Player, which provides a better sound quality.

This Live Player is currently a 'beta' version, which means it is tested and working but is still under development and more features are yet to be added or enabled. Please let us know (via the Feedback page or a direct email) of any problems you may encounter and we will attempt to get these resolved quickly with the provider. The final version of Live Player will be rolled out shortly (with all features fully working).

Note that the new stream no longer uses other commonly-installed external players such as Winamp or WindowsMediaPlayer. Those of you who may have bookmarked or externally stored the previous stream's link may find that you now need to re-bookmark or refresh this, to reflect the new "Listen Live" link.

 

If you want to re-live the best hits of the great Rock'n'Roll era of the 1950s and 1960s, tune in at 11:30pm Mondays when Roy Harrow will treat you to an hour of tunes which are guaranteed to bring back lots of memories. Bill Haley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Ventures, Ricky Nelson, The Shadows, .....

 

Be sure to be listening on Monday evenings at 10:30 (after "Dad And Dave") when you can hear an hour of the best of rockabilly and doowop music.

Check out Johnny's page (under 'Programme-Makers').

 

Join Geoff Kemp on Sunday evenings at midnight as he treats you to two hours of the very best of late-night music and thoughts.

 

Tune in to "The Next Episode" on Monday nights (10pm) and you can catch up once again with those iconic characters from 1940s/1950s Snake Gully - Dad, Mum, Dave and his long-suffering would-be girlfriend Mabel, Herb Wilson (Dave's rival for Mabel's attention), Ted Ramsay, and numerous others.

"Dad And Dave" was one of the most popular radio serials ever played in NZ, and depicted the (mis)fortunes of rural life in the Great Australian Outback in the period before, during and after World War II. It's a mix of comedy and drama, about life's little ups-and-downs back then.

The series on Radio Kidnappers will run initially for 3 months, but may be extended if there is popular demand.