First Up for Wednesday 14 April 2021

5:52 AM.Carterton residents are being told they must continue to boil their water more than a month after E.coli was found in the water supply. An on-off boil water notice has been in place since March the… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.Each week we like to introduce to you to one of our many new members of parliament. This week it's the turn of ACT's Karen Chhour - one of nine new MPs brought into the house on ACT leader David… Read more Audio

5:31 AM.The criteria for recruiting vaccinators to administer the Covid-19 jab has been expanded to include physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dieticians ... even speech language therapists. The… Read more Audio

5:22 AM.Once a year there's a window of time when Hops across the country is being harvested and brewers can make a 'fresh hop beer'. Hops are notoriously fickle once they've been picked so there's a real… Read more Video, Audio

5:16 AM.What's life like on a cannabis patch? Will eating hemp seeds make you high? To find out, our reporter Tom Kitchin talked to East Coast Cannabis company worker Ben Goodman just out of Ruatoria. Audio

5:11 AM.A new show written during lockdown explores familiar relationships, gender norms and intergenerational conflict. Showing for two weeks at the Basement theatre in Auckland's CBD, First World Problems… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.We'll begin in Australia, where it's suspected a second person has had an extreme clotting reaction to the AstraZeneca vaccine. Joining Nathan Rarere from her nest high above Brisbane is our… Read more Audio