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First Up for Wednesday 29 October 2025

  • Previous Episode: Tuesday, 28 October 2025
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 30 October 2025
  • Odd jobs: the life of a croc keeper at Butterfly Creek

    animals

    5:54 AM.If you've ever seen the Saltwater Crocodiles being fed at Auckland's Butterfly Creek and wondered why on earth someone would choose do that for a job, so did our poroducer Ross McNaughton. So he went… Read more Audio

  • Citizen Science helping to find long-tailed bats in Hawke's Bay

    animals

    5:48 AM.The Bat Colab founder Mark Roper is asking Hawkes Bay residents are being asked if they'd like to host a bat detector on their properties www.thebatcolab.co.nz Audio

  • Update on Gaza and technocrats, Sudan

    world

    5:43 AM.Alex Baird reports from the Middle-East on the tenuous Gaza ceasefire Audio

  • Wonderful World of TradeMe with Emma Bacon

    life and society

    5:25 AM.TradeMe's Emma Bacon has a classic Warriors raising funds for the Abilities Group. Audio

  • 10 Europeans die after tourist bus crashes in Kenya

    world

    5:12 AM.A plane crash in Kenya, and a 92 year old president for Cameroon, Nabil Ahmed Rufai has the news from Africa Audio

  • Previous Episode: Tuesday, 28 October 2025
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 30 October 2025
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