First Up Podcast

On today's First Up pod - Welcome back, it's 2024! We've got the latest from our people in the US and Europe; the Black Sticks men have just won a nail biter to qualify for this year's Olympics -… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - we investigate the concept of liquid trees - already cleaning the streets of Belgrade; with ten sleeps left until the big guy tries to squeeze down the chimney, we ask the… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - we get the latest from the UK where Rishi Sunak has been fighting for the right to send asylum seekers to Rwanda; Nabil joins us from Ghana where mystery surrounds the… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - after a couple of weeks away, Pam Corkery brings us news from Oz; there's drama at the UN climate talks after a draft deal failed to include plans to end fossil fuels; we… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - move over Wordle - we speak to the creator of the game Gubbins; Japan prepares for Christmas and no New Year celebrations at Shibuya; Nicola Willis explains plans to repeal… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - the US vetoed a UN Security Council demand for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza; we're find out about Swedish Christmas traditions; champion advice on best shots for a… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - we get the latest from the conflict in Gaza; US financial support for Ukraine is on the senate bargaining table; we check out the brilliant line up of artists at Auckland's… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - Boris Johnson appears infront of the UK's inquiry into covid-19; Labour MP and shadow leader of the House Kieran McAnulty talks politics; an Auckland man who got so sick of… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - UN officials say there's nowhere safe to go in Gaza; we talk to a former chair of climate change negotiations who says COP28 doesn't seem to be focussed on its primary goal -… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - the latest on Gaza with ABC journalist Riley Stuart; we hear how the Far North District Council is using maramataka - the Maori lunar calendar - to schedule its meetings… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - a slip has closed State Highway 2 north of Napier - we catch up with Wairoa mayor Craig Little as the northern Hawke's Bay town is still cut off from the south; we hear the… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - the truce between Israel and Hamas gets extended again, but it's hanging in the balance; a new study says patients who should've gone elsewhere aren't to blame for… Read more Audio