First Up for Friday 16 December 2022

5:54 AM.It's our final First Up of 2022 so we wanted to bring you -- our wonderful listeners -- something a bit special this morning. We're delighted to say the editor, writer and New Zealand Poet Laureate… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.He's featured on First Up throughout the year, dialing in from Ukraine where he's been delivering humanitarian aid ... Former soldier, businessman, former mayor and now humanitarian Tenby Powell is… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.We've been been putting a series of Christmasy questions and connundrums to the people of Tamaki Makaurau this week. For our final show of the year, our producers Leonard Powell, Mahvash Ikram and… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.That intro music can only one thing, it time to speak to our Minister of Fruit and Veggies Glenn Forsyth. Fruit of the Week/Year: Central Otago Cherries Audio

5:16 AM.This week we've been bringing you some of the many events taking place over summer and this morning we're in the Garden City. Christchurch and Canterbury are bursting at the seams with events - Anna… Read more Audio

5:10 AM.To Africa now, where hearts broke across the continent as the Moroccan team was bundled out of the World Cup. With Anna Thomas from Ghana is Nabil Ahmed. Audio

5:06 AM.We begin this morning in the United States, and our correspondent in New York is Bevan Hurley. Audio