Episode Playlist
Special Feature - Still Not Dead - Rachel McAlpine & The Andrew London Duo( 0:25:4)
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Still Not Dead is a new show from Rachel McAlpine and Andrew London playing on Sunday, 14th December at the Kapiti Playhouse at 3:00pm. Hear from these two very funny and talented people talk about the upcoming show. And go book a seat.
After recovering from a shocking epiphany (OMG I'm getting old!), popular poet Rachel McAlpine started unpicking the mysteries of old age. Results: a best-seller book of poems, How To Be Old. A sell-out play, The Secret Lives of Extremely Old People. A podcast, Learning How To Be Old. And it seems at 85 she's still not done and still not dead. She reads selections.
On the cusp of receiving the mythical Gold Card, satirical songwriter/guitarist Andrew London and partner Kirsten assemble a selection of age-related songs from both original and borrowed repertoires, to compliment Ms McAlpine's meanderings. 'When I'm 64' is almost too obvious to include but...
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Published: 1/12/2025 9:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Wellington Jazz Festival ( 0:27:46)
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We talk with festival co-director, Tama Waipara, about organizing a jazz festival, attracting artists and some of this year's highlights.
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Published: 15/10/2025 2:30:00 p.m.
Special Feature - World Space Week with Haritina Mogosanu and Sam Leske( 0:25:27)
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Astrobiologist Haritina Mogosanu and astrophysicist Sam Leske will blow your mind in this quick conversation (relative to the universe) about World Space Week. Is there life outside of our earth? How big is the universe, are we all made of stardust? How big is the Milky Way and how can you measure it. So many questions, so little time. A teaser of a conversation to get you interested in this world celebrated week.
For more information visit https://www.astrobiology.nz/haritina-mogosanu-executive-director-nzan/ and https://milky-way.kiwi/
Published: 1/10/2025 2:15:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Kapiti Good Sorts and Community Awards with Mayor Janet Holborow( 0:10:30)
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In this special feature, we sit down with Kapiti Mayor Janet Holborow to talk about the Kapiti Good Sorts Awards and the Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards.
Nominations are open now until the 31st of May. Visit the KCDC website to nominate.
https://www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/community/awards-good-sorts/kapiti-good-sorts-and-community-awards/
Published: 8/05/2025 12:30:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Maori Everyday( 0:27:36)
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This is a special with Moana Murray-McCaul and Jordon Marshall (Nemo).
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Published: 24/04/2025 4:16:07 p.m.
Special Feature with Noah's Pirate Poem( 0:16:15)
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This fantastic live recording of Noah's challenge in the UK is available to you here - a great listen
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Published: 22/03/2025 11:00:00 a.m.
Age Concern's Susan and Holly talk to us about "Seniors' March"( 0:14:22)
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Susan and Holly from Age Concern Kapit chat to Peter about the upcoming “Seniors’ March’, three weeks of community-led events for older persons in the Kapiti area. These events are designed to give people the chance to see the range available and also to give them the opportunity to try them.
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Published: 8/03/2025 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - with Waikanae Bridge Club( 0:24:32)
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Jo, Steph and Viv join us in studio to talk about Bridge and in particular Bridge lessons at the Waikanae Bridge Club. You can email the club at waikanaebridge@gmail.com or go to the website waikanae.bridge-club.org for more info
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Published: 1/02/2025 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Vehicles on Beaches campaign with KCDC( 0:28:23)
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Catherine sits down with Gareth Eloff from KCDC to discuss the issue of vehicles on beaches.
Vehicles are banned on most Kāpiti Coast beaches except for a few very limited areas where you can use your four-wheeler to launch a boat, and Motorbikes are banned completely. You can check the rules for vehicles, dogs, horses, longline fishing, bonfires, and other beach activities at www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/beaches.
Published: 14/12/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature with the Levin Intermediate school( 0:16:24)
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This week, Year 7 & 8 students from Levin Intermediate School, Joshua, Logan, Gwen, Ysabella, and Kiwa, interview themselves, and some of their teachers, about school life.
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Published: 7/12/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Rotary & Lions with Star Fish Kapiti re Pensioners Day 17th December( 0:18:58)
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Today, Nikki is chatting to Mal Bird - Rotary & Lions Special Projects Team Coordinator - and Wayne Pidduck - owner of Star Fish Kapiti - about a special initiative they’re organising with the help of the owners of Kapiti Pak’n’Save – “Pensioners Day” – happening on Tuesday 17th December from 9am.This show captures the varied and interesting events and people that we come across at Coast Access Radio.
Published: 30/11/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Patrick Rennell, CEO of Horowhenua Learning Centre( 0:27:53)
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From the Levin Mall Studio, Oliver chats with Patrick Rennell, the CEO of the Horowhenua Learning Centre, about the educational and employment programmes that they run for all ages. Patrick also discusses his aspirations for education and the next generation of young people, and his experience helping to set up a polytechnic in Bahrain.'
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Published: 2/11/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards Finalist - Fox's Cottage Quilting and Wool( 0:14:44)
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For our Electra Business and Innovation awards series, Jenny Worsley and Luchelle Cottrell, co-owners of Fox's Cottage Quilting and Wool, talk with Oliver in the Levin Mall Studio about their nomination, the space they've created for quilters, and the uptake in young people taking on quilting post-COVID
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Published: 6/10/2024 2:30:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards Finalist - Levin Top 10 Holiday Park ( 0:20:32)
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Oliver chats in the Levin Mall Studio with Repi Wright, co-owner with wife Debbie of Levin Top 10 Holiday Park, about their Electra Business and Innovation Award nomination, their job change from teaching to hospitality, the effects of the 2022 Levin Tornado on the Park, and how they strive to provide engaged customer feedback
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Published: 6/10/2024 1:00:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Fish 4 Good - donating to local foodbanks( 0:19:6)
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In this episode, we chat to spearfisher, Mal Bird, about how the cancellation of the annual Spearfishing Competition in Kapiti earlier this year, led to the formation of the Fish 4 Good initiative, which donates fresh filleted fish to our local foodbanks.
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Published: 5/10/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards Finalists - CACI Levin( 0:19:14)
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Back as an Electra Business Award winning business owner, Jamie Stout from CACI Levin discusses with Oliver in the Levin Mall Studio why they've reentered this year, how they've grown since last year awards, and the challenge social media presents to maintaining true self-confidence.
Published: 28/09/2024 4:30:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Award Finalists - with Jonathan Bentham from Homegrown( 0:15:57)
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Oliver chats to Jonathan Bentham from Homegrown, a finalist for a Customer Experience Award category at the Electra Business and Innovation Awards. They discuss the 'online farmers market' style business, alongside their range of diverse produce, including ulluco (aka unicorn poo)
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Published: 28/09/2024 2:00:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards Finalist - Victoria Davis from Harrisons Flooring( 0:20:19)
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In this chat, we discover there are hundreds of samples in a van - coming to you - with more different options than you would expect. An interesting chat about the many different products that are now available for your home, and what the process was like going through the Electra Business Awards process.
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Published: 28/09/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards Finalists - Able Whiteware ( 0:16:26)
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From the Levin Mall Studio, Oliver chats with Simon Ryding from Able Whiteware Services, a whiteware and appliance repair service based in Levin, as part of our ongoing Electra Business Awards series, covering the unique experiences they encounter out in the field, and his personal journey to the top of the business.
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Published: 22/09/2024 1:00:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Award Finalists - Stonewood Homes Horowhenua( 0:13:1)
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From the Levin Mall Studio, as part of our Electra Business Awards series, Oliver chats to Catherine Geraghty from Stonewood Homes Horowhenua, based in Foxton, about why they decided to nominate for the second year running, and what they do to help you get into your dream home.
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Published: 21/09/2024 4:30:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards Finalists - Resonate Hearing( 0:28:37)
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An enlightening conversation about this finalist in this year's Electra Business awards - Resonate Hearing. They have a completely different business model to what you would expect with hearing aids and they talk through a lot of the stigma attached to losing your hearing, and the benefits of getting your hearing checked.
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Published: 21/09/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards - Party Perfect( 0:30:42)
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We speak to Ivett from Party Perfect about her business and her rocky road to get to stay in the country. A moving insight into how a community can get behind a cause and make a change.
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Published: 15/09/2024 2:30:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards - Bidable( 0:23:0)
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Nikki chats to Rachel Adams, owner/operator of Waikanae base business, Bidable – which specialises in managing small to large multimillion tenders for small businesses through to large corporations for any industry – and is a finalist in the Electra Business Awards category of Professional and Business Services or Technology.
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Published: 15/09/2024 1:00:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business awards - with Oxford Fresh( 0:16:12)
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As part of our ongoing series for the Electra Business Awards, Oliver chats in the Levin Mall Studio with Levi Milldove from Oxford Fresh, a family operated online produce delivery service based in Horowhenua, about their nomination, and the challenges they've overcome as an emerging business
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Published: 14/09/2024 4:30:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards - Landlink( 0:20:29)
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Nikki talks to Paul Turner, co-owner of local surveying company, Landlink, that is a finalist in the Professional and Business Service or Technology category of the 2024 Electra Business and Innovation Awards.
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Published: 14/09/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards - with Funk with Food( 0:17:28)
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In this episode, Nikki chats to Lottie, one of the owners of Funk with Food, a meat-based condiment manufacturing business that is a finalist in the Innovation category of the 2024 Electra Business Awards, about how the idea for this business came about and what they have got out of entering the awards.
Published: 8/09/2024 2:30:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards - with South African Pantry( 0:19:19)
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Finalists in the Electra Business Awards, Cindy and Theo from South African Pantry talk about arriving in a new country, setting up a unique business and expanding their business beyond Paraparaumu
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Published: 8/09/2024 1:00:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards - with Heritage Barbers( 0:19:58)
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In part of our Electra Business awards series talking with finalists, we meet Savvy from Heritage Barbers who talks about her unique business providing old fashioned good service, haircuts and hot towel shaves - starting from no one in their chairs to having a full salon with a waiting list.
Listen in to how Savvy and her team make that happen and why they applied to be in the Electra Business Awards.
Published: 7/09/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards with Kaewa Tours( 0:19:50)
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In this episode we talk to Electra Business and Innovation 2024 finalist, Tom Collier, owner-operator of Kaewa Tours in Kapiti. Kaewa Tours is a family owned company dedicated to private tours of up to 14 people (and larger groups if you give them plenty of notice).
Published: 1/09/2024 2:30:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards - featuring Nga Manu and Waikanae Montessori Preschool( 0:16:12)
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In this episode we hear from Anna from Nga Manu Nature Reserve, who are first time entrants in the Hospitality, Entertainment & Tourism category; and Cushla from Waikanae Montessori Preschool, who are first time entrants in the Not for Profit, Community and Public Services categoryThis show captures the varied and interesting events and people that we come across at Coast Access Radio.
Published: 31/08/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Electra Business Awards with Waterfront Kitchen and Bar, Stripped Electrical and Kapiti Art Studio( 0:15:28)
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In this episode we hear from Conrad of the Waterfront Kitchen and Bar, first time entrants in the Hospitality, Entertainment & Tourism category; Sam of Stripped Electrical Ltd, who have entered the Construction and Trades category for the second time; and Rebecca from Kapiti Art Studio, who are first time entrants in the Not for Profit, Community & Public Services category
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Published: 25/08/2024 1:00:00 p.m.
Special Feature - Oliver chats to Chris Franklyn from the Cancer Society Manawatu( 0:28:3)
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From the Levin Mall Studio, Oliver chats to Chris Franklyn from the Cancer Society Manawatu about the work being done in the leadup to Daffodil Day, and the services they provide, including from their Levin office at Winchester House
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Published: 24/08/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Guru of Chai - Jacob Rajan from Indian Ink Theatre Company joins Catherine to talk about the upcoming performance in Kapiti of the internationally acclaimed Guru of Chai. ( 0:23:37)
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Described as a stirring blend of rich storytelling and theatre royalty, Indian Ink's Guru of Chair returns to our shores. Catherine speaks with the incredibly intelligent and prolific Wellington based actor, director and theatremaker Jacob Rajan, celebrated for his work as the co-founder of Indian Ink Theatre Company. He’ll be performing in the return of their much loved production Guru of Chai at Coastlands Theatre, Te Raukura ki Kapiti from 4 – 6 July.
In this conversation, hear from Jacob about the creation of the characters he performs, some background of how the ideas for the show came to fruition and the resulting immersion into theatre you will take when you see the show.
Tickets from Eventfinder and at Te Raukura ki Kapiti
Published: 22/06/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Special Feature - Mulled Wine - Mary talks about the next Mulled Wine Concert featuring Andrew Beer (violin) and Ingrid Bauer (harp)( 0:23:39)
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VIOLIN AND HARP COMBINATION IN PAEKAKARIKI
Classical music enthusiasts adore the sound of strings – all the great composers have written music to be played on the violin. In comparatively recent times, the concert harp has become one of the most favoured instruments in the orchestra. Kapiti concertgoers will have the opportunity to hear the violin and harp together when Mulled Wine Concerts presents Andrew Beer (violin) and Ingrid Bauer (harp) at St Peter's Community Hall in Paekakariki on Sunday 23 June 2024 for a concert of music old and new.
Published: 15/06/2024 11:00:00 a.m.