First Up for Thursday 11 May 2023

5:52 AM.More rain is on the way for Tamaki Makaurau. Slips, flashfloods, people mopping out their houses again. The chairman of advocacy group West Auckland is Flooding Lyall Carter says they're at their… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.If you find yourself in situation where someone greats you like an old friend but you cant quite place their face. you might have something called prosopagnosia - or - face blindess. It's a rare… Read more Audio

5:36 AM.Last week our reporter Henry Riley was at the pub with the Prince and Princess of Wales. This week it's Bevan Hurley's turn to be at the centre of news coverage - he's been in court for the defamation… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.Time now for Local Democracy Reporting programme. And this week it is the turn of Susan Botting from Northland who told Nathan Rarere about a new pest called Caulerpa seaweed - threatening our way of… Read more Audio

5:14 AM.Fresh off a plane from his honeymoon in Mexico is our Japan correspondent Chris Gilbert. Nathan Rarere caught up with him for the first time in a couple of weeks and asked him about a most Japanese of… Read more Audio

5:05 AM.We begin this morning in the UK - where Prince Harry has received an apology from the Daily Mirror. With Nathan Rarere from London is our correspondent Henry Riley. Audio