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Te reo irirangi o ngā tangata o Manawatū! Community Access Media station for Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand, supported by New Zealand on Air and the Community Access Media Alliance. 👉🏼 linktr.ee/manawatupeoplesradio

This week's promo single images - spark ill "CYHCYHASY", Where's Jai? "Check It Out", Mel Parsons "Not Enough", Sub-Tribe and Casual Healing "Te Waka", and Louis Baker "All We Need"
A promo image by Serena (@shit-imma-artist) this episode's guest. It shows her character Donut Boi attempting to eat her and the hosts of the show.
A collage of images from 4 of this week's 5 featured singles: "Hit" from After Expiry, "Broken River" by The Wooden Box Band, "Impossible" by Welcomer, and "Matariki e ara" by Rā Charmian
Promo images for this week's featured singles "Cut Flower" by Second Homes, "Drunk at the Gym" by Jazmine Mary", "Longbow by Diesel Jenny" and "ready" by Shivers.
A cast photo from the show "Waenga" currently touring New Zealand
The cover of the Wooden Box Band album "Broken River"
A collage of promo images for this week's featured singles: "Let Me In" by Isaac Chambers and Dub Princess, "Bug in the Cake" by Violet Grohl, "We Sang As You Slept" by Sheep, Dog, & Wolf, "Triton" by Tweed, and "Te Marangai" by Suena Oro
The poster for the show "Comedians getting tattooed and doing stand-up while sitting down in a sterile environment with you watching" which is on at the Globe Theatre in Palmerston North on the 3rd of July.
A collage of promo images from this week's featured singles: Mazbou Q & Devaura "Show Up, Show Out", Otium "Glide", G.L.N.C. "Send In The Blades", Matrian Law " Temple of the Sun", and Junny "OOTD"
A collage made up of promo images for this week's featured single: Kokoa Nashi "Motherlode", Mim Jensen "Karmis", The Sour "Hex", Mel Parsons "Grain By Grain", and Nyssa Collins "Teine Samoa"
An image showing a young woman with headphones speaking into a mic. Text behind her reads "WE ARE LOOKING FOR A KAIĀWHINA PĀHO (CONTENT ASSISTANT) Join the Manawatū People's Radio whānau! If you are passionate about access media, storytelling, and connecting people through the power of sound we'd love to hear from you!
Promo images from this week's featured tracks: "superdummyshit1" by CHODESOUND, "One Headlight" by Mainard Larkin, "One Last Ride" by The Advocators, "Vote" by Tim Mahon and the Great Kerfuffle, and "Let It!" by Gareth Thomas.
The cover of the Menzies album "Holding My Cold Hand Even Though Yours Is Warm"
A collage of images for this week's featured singles: "Baby Heavyweight" by Delaney Davidson, "Mirror Rain" by Just Janie, "Aurora" by The Veils, "Untouchable Girls" by the Topp Twins, and "Move On" by Darren Watson.
The album cover of "Into the Drift" by Wolfboy. Art by Leilani Dingwall. The image shows a purple humanoid wolf with three eyes loping across a starry background clad in shorts, sneakers, and a loud pink shirt. He is smoking raw colour, which fills the top left of the image with yellow and magenta fumes.
A collage of promo images for this week's featured singles: LEISURE "Ride It Out", Dylan Storey "Old Forests", Zentarge "Tall Poppy", Venus Vulture "Wisest Creatures", and Play for Keeps "Presumptuous".
Alan Selway (left, on bass) and Steve Zodiac (right, on guitar) perform as part of Vardis
Images from this week's featured singles: Sparkill "Goonies Never Say Die", Ella Pollett "A Name I Knew", Mim Jensen "The Mask", Jonathan Bree with Rachel Clarke "Savour My Love" and Mainard Larkin "Empty Street".
Alan Selway (bass) and Steve Zodiac (guitar) performing as part of Vardis in the late 70's.
A hand-drawn poster for a Skeptics gig at Snail Clamps in Palmerston North
Craig Black aka researchintospeed
A promo image for Darren Watson's "This Here Guitar" tour. It shows Darren, on a yellow background, playing his guitar and looking up at text that reads "DARREN WATSON This Here Guitar Tour '26 ...with special guest Matt Hay!"
Promo images from the featured singles from Startime, Vardis, We Will Ride Fast, Hina, and The Veils
A poster for a Skeptics gig.
A poster showing events at the Palmerston North Library for NZ Music Month 2026. May 7 - researchintospeed, May 7 - Eddie McEwan and the House of Goth, May 14 - Liblab, May 14 Alan Selway and Vardis, May 20 - Wolfboy "Into the Drift", May 24 - Open mic, safe space, all welcome, 28 May - Ce Goacher "Rungle and runglism"
Images for this week's featured tracks - Fables "Minibar", Wet Denim "Living Room", Beverley Martin "reckless Jane", The Chris Dann Trio "The Moon's a Harsh Mistress", and Sanguine "Tō e la'ā e Kavaka".
The logo for the Palmerston North Workers Memorial Day, featuring a silhouetted fist holding a rose on a yellow background.
A collage of images from this week's featured singles: "I Struck for Better Wages" by Wellington Sea Shanty Society, "Beautiful Sky" by Utah, NZ, "'Appy" by Menzies, "Guardrails" by CAITLIN, and "Your God & Mine" by The Sour.
Cover images from the featured tracks for this week: Earth Tongue "Orbit of a Witch", The Triphonics "Upside Down", Sogg "Point That Thing Somewhere Else", Son & Water "Nau Mai", and Vera Ellen with Hemi Hemingway "When It's Over"
A photo showing Max Rashbrooke (left) and Richard Shaw (right)
A collage of cover images for this week's featured tracks: "The Original" by The Bing Turkby Ensemble, "Utzp" by Angine de Poitrine, "E Rere" by the Mentalist Collective, and "Stardust" by Aro.
A collage of cover images from Bic Runga's "You're Never Really Here (Are You Baby?)", Imarhan "Tellalt", Flea (feat. Thom Yorke) "Traffic Lights", and Grace Ives "Trouble"
Helen Nichols catapulting the audience to the 1900's - WW1 and Wellington with the story of her Grandfather Gordon, the horse whisperer.
A collage of the covers of this week's featured tracks: "Ultimate Painting" by Ultimate Painting, "going nowhere" by Mel Denisse, "One Stop" by Aldous Harding, "Circus Clown" by Twisted Teens, and "Irreparable Parables" by Andrew Wasylyk
Angela Povey wowing us with the story of her mothers survival after contracting tetanus.
Margaret Austin
Professor Richard Shaw
The cover of Jake Baxendale's album "Waypeople". It is a Chinese style ink painting showing a path between tall wooded cliffs with two small human figures dancing in the foreground.
A composite image showing the covers of the singles "The Magpies" by Paul Kelly, "Mundane" by Aro, "honecomb" by Averie, "Gayfever" by Vera Ellen, and "Mash Potato" by Menzies.
Lucy O'Hagan, author of "Everything But The Medicine"
A painting of Awapuni Lagoon from the Manwatū Heritage website
A composite image from made of the art from this week's featured tracks - "Rattlesnake Boy", ""Midnight", "The Garden", "Theme from Living", and "Milk in the Sun"
The logo for Palmerston North's Heritage Festival 2026, which consists of the text "Heritage Festival - Five weeks of events bringing our heritage to life" on a dark green background, with triangular Māori panel devices at the bottom of the image.
The cover of You, Me Everybody's album "Midnight". The cover is a painting of the band in which they are all holding their instruments, and their heads are replaced by various objects. Sam (mandolin) has a lampshade, Kim (guitar) a pocket watch, Laurence (guitar) a welding mask, Rob (bass) has a compass, and Nat (banjo) has a diver's helmet.
The words "BY WOMEN. FOR WOMEN. ABOUT WOMEN." on a purple background.
An image of a cloudy sky with text superimposed. The text reads: "Sickand Tired Aotearoa Episode 12 Special interest interview: We meet Martine Cotton, the coordinator for the Australia/New Zealand Support Group of the Pernicious Anaemia Society. To find out more head to : https://pernicious-anaemia-society.org Lived experience interview: We also caht with Dr. April Yorke who has lived experience of Penicious Anaemia. We talk about the challenges she faced, and how it impacted on her and her children.
The cover of the Fleetwood Mac album "Tango In The Night" featured on this week's "80s at 8"
Flynn's Celtic Strings: Dave Flynn, Em Griffiths, and Lee Corbett-Barton
Rhian Firmin and Sam Wyss as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
Scott Cook and Pamela Mae
The cover of the self-titled debut album by Manawatū/Wellington band Pining Radiata.
A birthday cake with the MPR logo on it. It has candles that read "Happy Birthday" and text about it that reads "We're 28!"
The cover of Suzanne Lynch's memoir "Yesterday When I Was Young".