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First Up for Wednesday 13 March 2024

  • Previous Episode: Tuesday, 12 March 2024
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 14 March 2024
  • March 15 cricket team helps survivors cope with tragedy

    sport
    Yasir Amin, captain of the Cornered Tigers Cricket Club.

    5:52 AM.Friday marks five years since the mosque attacks in Christchurch, and we're sharing survivors' stories of healing from the terror that shook their lives. One of those survivors is Yasir Amin. His… Read more Audio

  • Wanted: Doctors for remote Scottish islands, $300k salary

    world
    The Outer Hebrides

    5:46 AM.If you would love to live on a remote Island with a salary of more than 300 thousand NZ dollars the Outer Hebrides Islands, off Scotland's west coast, are looking for doctors. There are about four and… Read more Audio

  • Wonderful World of TradeMe with Tiana Barns

    life and society
    "#LOVETAUPO" sign next to Lake Taupo.

    5:26 AM.This week on TradeMe - one of Waiheke Island's biggest vineyards is for sale as well as a piece of rugby memorabillia very few people will have in their collection. But first, TradeMe's Tiana Barns… Read more Audio

  • What Ramadan is like in the midst of Mid-East turmoil

    world
    Palestinians pray outside Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy Night of Destiny, Laylat al-Qadr.

    5:17 AM.To the Middle East now - in Doha is Alex Baird. Audio

  • US: Haiti's interim PM resigns after weeks of chaos

    world
    An injured journalist is helped after he was reportedly hit by a tear gas canister fired by police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 9, 2024. Sporadic gunfire rang out in Port-au-Prince late March 8, an AFP correspondent there heard, as residents desperately sought shelter amid the recent explosion of gang violence in the Haitian capital. (Photo by Clarens SIFFROY / AFP)

    5:12 AM.To Mexico now - joining us from beyond the southern border is Bevan Hurley. Audio

  • Australian opposition has plans for nuclear power

    world
    A transport storage cask for the return of high activity waste from reprocessing is loaded onto the BBC Shanghai cargo ship in Cherbourg-Octeville. The vessel is to deliver nuclear waste back to Australia after its reprocessing in France. AFP PHOTO / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU

    5:05 AM.Let's kick your mid-week off in Australia - Pam Corkery is on the line Audio

  • Previous Episode: Tuesday, 12 March 2024
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 14 March 2024
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