First Up for Thursday 12 August 2021

5:47 AM.Nathan Rarere spoke with the Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson what a level 4 lockdown would look like when the country faces the Delta variant of Covid-19. But before we got into that, Nathan put… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.With the deadly Delta variant of Covid-19 banging at the door, the government has issued a strong warning to New Zealanders, saying it won't hesitate to plunge the country into lockdown. Covid-19… Read more Audio

5:31 AM.Every week we're joined by one of the journalists from the Local Democracy Reporting Programme and this morning we're in the Wairarapa with LDR reporter Marcus Anselm. He explained to Nathan Rarere… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.It's that time of the week when we turn our attention to small New Zealand businesses doing interesting things and this week we'll hear from Elena Milne. Elena knits beautiful scarfs, hats and baby… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.We begin in Europe this morning - joining Nathan Rarere from Sweden is our correspondent Anita Purcell Sjölund talking about fires in Greece. Audio