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First Up for Friday 13 June 2025

  • Previous Episode: Thursday, 12 June 2025
  • Next Episode: Monday, 16 June 2025
  • Coromandel distillery wins top honour at World Gin Awards

    business life and society

    5:51 AM.Distiller Paul Schneider joins the programme to talk about his win at the World Gin Awards in London. Audio

  • US: reaction to India plane crash with Boeing 787-8

    world

    5:46 AM.US authorities send a team to India to help investigate the 787 crash and Donald Trump celebrates his birthday this weekend - Bevan Hurley has the latest out of New York Audio

  • Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth

    food

    5:23 AM.Minister of Fruit and Veggies Glenn Forsyth joins us for his trademark Fruit of the Week - NZ green kiwifruit

    YAM CAKE

    For one cake tin

    4 eggs

    240g butter

    ¾ cups brown sugar

    ½ cup white sugar

    … Read more Audio

  • Chiefs lock on Super Rugby semi-finals after a loss

    sport

    5:16 AM.It's Super Rugby Semi-finals weekend - Rugby reporter Joe Porter talked with Chiefs lock Naitoa Ah Kuoi Audio

  • Cuts in USAID cause slow starving of thousands in Kenyan camps

    world

    5:10 AM.Kenya is under a starvation alert as cuts to the US AID programme kick in, Nabil Ahmed Rufai is with us from Ghana Audio

  • Previous Episode: Thursday, 12 June 2025
  • Next Episode: Monday, 16 June 2025
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