The following alphabetically listed shows play every week. Refer to the schedule for times. To keep regularly in touch, please join our Facebook page.
Sat & Sun 8am. With Anna-Maria and friends. Enjoy a lie in while the kids listen to stories and music. Just like when you were growing up.
Tues 8pm & Fri 2pm. Antonio presents and hour of Latin American music with Salsa, Latin Jazz, and Cumbia, spanning Caribbean to Andean rhythms.
Sun 9pm & Weds 5pm. The back catalogue of an outstanding artist. No hits, no misses. With Mark Amery and friends.
Sat 3pm & Tues 11am. Tineke Van der Cam calls the tunes from her nationwide musical bingo show! From the 70s to the 2000s, with discussion on anything coming up in the comedy scene and interesting events happening at our local venues.
Mon 3pm & Fri 9pm. mcmc plays fast & loose with tight and hypnotic grooves across the musical spectrum.
Tues 5pm & Sun 12pm. AroVideo’s Andrew Armitage explores an ocean of soundtrack and song from a century of cinema.
Mon 6pm & Weds 2pm. A jukebox of classic pop hits – ‘A’ sides and flip sides! With Renwick Wright.
Weds 9pm-11pm. Anna-Maria O’Brien presents a panoply of classical music with an emphasis on the contemporary.
Sat 1pm & Thurs 9am. A vinyl variety show. Conrad says what goes on in the country stays in the country. Con Air flies west.
Sun 1pm & Fri 8am. Enchanting tango music with Andrey Sabitov.
Sun 4pm & Wed 11am. Travel to the outer limits with esoteric music specialists Dan Beban, Nell Thomas and guests.
Mon 10pm & Sat 11pm. Release the tension and explore all Metal has to offer with DJ B.
Sat 9-11pm. Dance, house, minimal tech, dub techno, reggae/ska & anything out of the ordinary. With Luke Eastell.
Tues 9pm & Thurs 2pm. Adventure with Mayatiita Southerwood exploring dance, house, world, dub & reggae.
Thurs 5pm & Tues 10pm. Jim Wray presents an hour of fight the power.
Sun 7pm & Weds 4pm. Explorations of local and international funk and disco music with DJ Hake.
Sat 7-9pm. Music and stories from Haumia Street’s Paul Howard aka DJ Small.
Mon 9am & Sat 11am. A round-the-world musical flight with Melissa Garber – inflight meals vary.
Sun 5pm & Wed 10am. The Grrls To The Front collective present a riotous mosh pit of Grrl music!
The Holy Hour
Fri 10pm & Weds 3pm. Friday night pagan prayers with Bek Coogan.
Sun 8pm & Wed 9am. A different musical genre from 1978 to today with Mandy and her sidekick Dougs.
Thurs 9pm & Fri 11am. Oh my Prog! An introduction to the very best progressive rock over the decades, with Christian Judge.
Sun 10am & Thur 3pm. Alison Amery-Zwartz and friends with small songs played for big reasons.
Fridays 4pm-6pm. A fusion of new and used music from home and beyond with Himiona Grace.
Fri 9am & Wed 8pm. Music that knows no walls between cultures. With Gilbert Haisman.
A Little Bit of History Repeating
Sat 4pm & Tues 10am. Amy and James pick a year from the past century to explore its music and events.
Sat 5pm & Tue 4pm. Playing up beat, off beat, mostly old school grooves to get your booty shaking. With DJ Jewels.
Weds 7pm & Mon 11am. Sarah Laing’s musical enthusiasms from mumcore to artcore to hardcore.
Mon 5pm & Thurs 11am. Embracing comedy, classics, fine voices and crafted words that appeal to host Murray Williams.
Weds 6pm & Mon 2pm. Sean van der Cam cooks some tasty tunes.
Sat 10am & Thur 12pm. NZ and international poetry, readings & background with local poet Rob Hack.
Paekākāriki School Show
Mon 2pm & Thurs 4pm. Join Year 8 for stories, music and news from our school.
Sat 2pm & Thur 8am. Sophie Handford returns with favourites from the pop charts and more!
Sat 9am & Mon 3pm. The dance of emergent change that can alter the social fabric. And let’s be real, it is time! With kaiakindness
Thurs 1pm & Sat 6pm. Cutting edge nostalgia from yesterday, today and tomorrow with Sam Buchanan.
THE RETRO HOUR
Sun – Fri 11pm. The PaeFM vault lucky dip!
Mon – Wed 8am & 1pm. Share breakfast and lunch times with our young people!
Fridays 7pm-9pm. All new music, brews and gig banter by the Paekakariki DJ collective.
Mon 8pm-10pm. Themes, artist specials, multi genres, anything from country to metal with Chrissi.
Mon 10am & Thurs 8pm. Eclectic sounds for inquisitive minds – rock, blues & more across the ages. With Renwick Wright.
Tues 7pm & Fri 10am. Blues – from a local garage to a smokey bar and back again – with Finn Michalak.
Thurs 7pm. A new show in which DJ Maria shares a song and a laugh with friends.
Sun 11am & Fri 1pm. Music is the soul of life. Discover sounds to soothe & groove your soul, like basking in sunshine. With Heather.
Daily either 12 noon and 6pm. Your community radio show: notices, news, performances and interviews with your local crew.
Mon 7pm & Thurs 10am. Solomon and friends share stories and songs from their travels around the world, bringing global sounds back to the nest.
Fri 6pm & Tue 5m. Join Val and Pat in a show dedicated to the love of vinyl record collecting.
Sun 9am & Tue 12pm. Kōrero with Emma McLaughlin and the woman of Paekākāriki who share tracks from favourite female artists.
Sun 10pm & Fri 3pm. Sunday night mystery vinyl with Jack Cromie.
Sun 2-4pm. Travels through the vast landscape of country and folk music, with Helen Keivom.

Email us here with any enquiries, concerns, or to contribute. Run by the community for the community we want your involvement.
Paekakariki 88.2FM is a non-profit volunteer run radio station , run alongside web platform www.paekakariki.nz under the auspices of Paekakariki Informed Community, former publisher of community newspaper Paekakariki Xpressed.
Our grateful thanks to our radio sponsors: Groundtruth, Beach Road Deli, The Perching Parrot and The Front Room Eatery, Waikanae Beach.
Objectives
- Provide reliable community information
- Provide civil defence and other information in emergency and power cut situations
- Provide a platform for education for our youth
- Be the people’s voice, representing and promoting the diversity of our community, our needs, and the unique character of Paekakariki.
- Promote environmental awareness, in particular our native birdlife, flora and fauna
- Represent the concerns of local tangata whenua
- Share the community’s stories, histories and provide discussion of different views
- Develop, present and record local DJS, musicians, artists and writers, and prioritise locally produced content
- Entertain and stimulate
- Develop an oral history of the community
- Provide the facilities, advice, training and technical support for residents to create and broadcast their own radio programmes
- Establish and nurture mutual interests and relationships with other like minded communities and individuals, whether in the region, nationally or internationally.
Committee
Meets bi-monthly to assess all applications and report on activity, issues and planning
Chair: Mark Amery
Secretary: Heather Duarte
Treasurer: James Albertson
Emma McLaughlin
Renwick Wright
Jude Walcott
Christian Judge
Bradley Warden
Val Little
Mark Coote
Andrew Armitage