First Up for Wednesday 1 November 2023

5:51 AM.At the Cricket World Cup the Black Caps lost a nail-biter to Australia over the weekend, but the team remains in the hunt for a semifinal with three round robin matches remaining.

In a show of poetic… Read more Audio

5:47 AM.Halloween was last night, you may have had some kids in costumes knocking at your door, maybe some people doing donuts down your culdesac. In serendipitous timing, Halloween coincided with the first… Read more Audio

5:37 AM.Something you might not have thought about before is the carbon footprint of your furniture.

But it turns out the foam filling in your couch produces an enormous amount of CO2.

Celine Sandberg is an… Read more Audio

5:31 AM.Time now to talk business! And there's a big report coming out today from the Reseve Bank - about New Zealand's financial system resilience. The RBNZ says we compare well with other advanced… Read more Audio

5:17 AM.To the Middle-East now - with First Up from Doha is Alex Baird. Audio

5:12 AM.To the Pacific now - joining the programme from Tonga is Kalafi Moala Audio

5:06 AM.Let's kick things off in Australia - with us from Brisbane is Pam Corkery. Audio