First Up for Monday 13 May 2024

5:53 AM.You can store eggs for up to 12 months in lime-water?? Who knew? And what is lime water?? Leonard Powell finds out from preserve and pickle champion Ellen Schindler. Audio

5:46 AM.While we were seeing pretty lights and going WOW, Space James saw science things like nitrogen, oxygen and argon.. he talked with Nathan Rarere. Audio

5:25 AM.Winter appears to have arrived at the produce markets - so it's mandarin and kumara time with Glenn Forsyth Audio

5:25 AM.Cameron Leslie is back for his fourth Paralympics - he talked with sports reporter Felicity Reid about his three young children watching him for the first time. Audio

5:16 AM.Representing Samoa at Eurovision is our Sweden-based correspondent Anita Purcell-Sjölund Audio

5:05 AM.In his last appearance on First Up as Newshub's North America correspondent, Mitch McCann looks at US reaction to Israel's assault on Rafah and the Trump trial in New York Audio