First Up for Wednesday 27 November 2019

5:57 AM.Yesterday's questions and answers: 1/. What was the name of Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee? Bubbles 2/. What is the nickname for New Orleans in the USA? The Big Easy 3/. What did the Normans conquer… Read more Audio

5:50 AM.The world's first HIV positive sperm bank launches today hoping to reduce the stigma still felt by those living with the virus. It's called 'Sperm Positive' and currently has three donors signed up… Read more Audio

5:43 AM.Council staff will be going on a wild goose chase over the coming few weeks - as they try to round up the 170 or so geese living in Auckland's Western Springs. Nita Blake-Person spoke to Agnes… Read more Audio

5:34 AM.An American lawyer and a New Zealand teenager have joined forces to lobby for greater toilet access for people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. About 20,000 New Zealanders suffer with IBD - needing… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.Two kakapo whose entire species was threatened by a deadly fungal disease are being returned to their island homes today. Nine of the critically-endangered parrots died as a result of a rampant… Read more Audio

5:10 AM.The navigator on a Polynesian vaka currently making its way around Aotearoa/New Zealand is helping youth in her native Tahiti to re-learn the ways of the sea. Moeata Galenon is an employment… Read more Video, Audio