Seattle
Alaskan hero providing groceries for entire town
Gustavus, Alaska, is home to the world's smallest and most isolated Costco shop. When it was cut off from its supply chain, owner Toshua Parker took matters into his own hands and started loading… Audio
Remdesivir looms as most likely Covid-19 drug
Remdesivir is being billed as the most promising Covid-19 drug by researchers. Andrew Joseph is a reporter at STAT covering health and medicine who has been looking into Remdesivir. Audio
SEATTLE arr Crabb: Variations on Scottish/Border folk melodies
James Crabb (accordion), Anthony Marwood (violin), Joan Perarnau Garriga (double bass). Recorded in Nelson Centre of Musical Arts by RNZ. Audio
Man steals plane from Seattle airport
The FBI is now involved in investigating how, 17 years after 9-11, a Seattle airport ground staff worker managed to taxi an Alaska Airlines turbo-prop aircraft onto the runway, take off and fly for… Audio
Barefoot Ted on the joy of natural running
A skipping rope can help people re-learn the 'primal skill' of running without shoes, says Ted McDonald, aka Barefoot Ted. Video, Audio
Seattle comes up with temporary solution to house homeless
Seattle is struggling with its own growing homeless population. Working from a position that anything is better than sleeping rough, they have come up with a temporary solution. Video, Audio
The Expats - Rachel Jacobsen
Rachel Jacobsen is New Zealand's honorary consul in Seattle. Audio
Former Seattle police chief calls for new look at Cobain death
Seattle's former police chief says the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain should be reinvestigated to settle whether it was suicide or murder. Audio
Soundgarden Drummer Matt Cameron
Drummer Matt Cameron is a quintessential part of the Seattle rock fraternity that blossomed in the early 90s, having held down the beat for alt-rock behemoths Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, which he… Audio
Seattle community activist Craig Thompson
Near downtown Seattle, a prosperous American city, home of Boeing and Microsoft, there is an encampment of homeless people in a strip of forest known as The Jungle. The homeless have gathered there… Audio
Earth
Seattle drone doom group Earth speak to Emma Smith about working with vocalists again on their new album Primative and Deadly, run-ins with fairies and surviving scary plane trips. Audio
Patty Schemel
Live Through This, the breakthrough album for Courtney Love-Cobain's band Hole turned 20 earlier this year. Drummer Patty Schemel was in NZ this week with her new group Upset, and relived those crazy… Audio