Best of First Up

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• Best of First Up for Friday 4 June

  4 Jun 2021

  In today's pod: find out how your community services card or gold card entitles you to get a cat de-sexed for free; space news with Space James; New Zealand's quarantine-free travel bubble pause with… Audio

• Best of First Up for Thursday 3 June

  3 Jun 2021

  In today's pod: Vietnam vets who believe their chronic health problems are related to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange renew calls for compensation and truck drivers are facing massive delays due to… Audio

• Best of First Up for Wednesday 2 June

  2 Jun 2021

  In today's pod: in the Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu looks like being ousted as Israel's Prime Minister; what Canterbury's weekend rain and flooding means for farmers and our wider economy and the… Audio

• Best of First Up for Tuesday 1 June

  1 Jun 2021

  In today's pod: Margaret Mahy's former Banks Peninsula home goes up for sale; National's deputy leader Shane Reti talks about our relationship with Australia, vaccines and the Canterbury floods and we… Audio

• Best of First Up for Friday 28 May

  28 May 2021

  In the pod today: Melbourne wakes up to its fourth lockdown as a new variant of Covid-19 spreads through the city; we hear how conservationists are trying to save the last of some seriously rare… Audio

• Best of First Up for Thursday 27 May

  27 May 2021

  In the pod today: Boris Johnson's former chief advisor Dominic Cummings goes rogue accusing the PM of being "unfit" for his job; the mucky business over mortuary waste in Gisborne; Labour's Deputy… Audio

• Best of First Up for Wednesday 26 May

  26 May 2021

  In the pod today: two parties claim that they have a mandate in Samoa's deepening political crisis; the hackers behind the Waikato DHB's security breach claim to hold patient and staff information and… Audio

• Best of First Up for Tuesday 25 May

  25 May 2021

  In the pod today: the World reacts to the hijacking of the Ryan Air flight over Belarus - four new cases of Covid-19 in the community in Melbourne - what does it mean for trans-tasman travel.. and… Audio

• Best of First Up for Monday 24 May

  24 May 2021

  In the pod today: A second major storm in only a few weeks is about to hit India, Samoa faces a constitutional crisis and tribute flow for a MMA fighter who died over the weekend. Audio

• Best of First Up for Friday 21 May

  21 May 2021

  In the pod today: Why Christmas may not deliver the tourists that Cook Island business operators need and while Scott Base revels in a 344 million dollar funding boost to rebuild, others are… Audio

• Best of First Up for Thursday 20 May

  20 May 2021

  In the pod today: the Cook Islands sets the pace, vaccinating 662 people on its first day, around 5 per cent of its population; Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson talks as much… Audio

• Best of First Up for Wednesday 19 May

  19 May 2021

  In the pod today: It's vaccination day in the Cook Islands.. our reporter Nick Trubridge is there; we meet 19-year-old Football Fern goalkeeper, Olympian Anna Leat; what's up with UFOs - our space… Audio

• Best of First Up for Monday 17 May

  17 May 2021

  In the pod today: we get some analysis on the latest conflict in Gaza; the Cook Islands travel bubble is ready to go - we find out how preparations are going; the NZ Boat Show was packed over the… Audio

• Best of First Up for Friday 14 May

  14 May 2021

  In the pod today: we head to India where bodies of Covid-19 victims continue to wash up on the banks of rivers as the pandemic sweeps through rural areas; and following First Up's revelations on… Audio

• Best of First Up for Thursday 13 May

  13 May 2021

  In the pod today: Israel ramps up the airstrikes in response to more than 1000 rockets from Gaza; the government has put workers' noses out of joint over its public sector pay restrictions - we hear… Audio

• Best of First Up for Wednesday 12 May

  12 May 2021

  In the pod today: the government makes it illegal for high-risk people to own firearms, we speak to Police Minister Poto Williams; when is a pay freeze a pay freeze? The union says it is. The Minister… Audio

• Best of First Up for Monday 10 May

  10 May 2021

  In the pod today: an aviation expert believes new research provides the best chance yet of finding the final resting place of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and why is it that our IPL players were… Audio

• Best of First Up for Friday 7 May

  7 May 2021

  In the pod today: New Zealand's IPL cricketers begin their exodus from Covid-ravaged India; a middle-aged cool Mum doing stand up: flights to and from New South Wales are on hold until midnight… Audio

• Best of First Up for Thursday 6 May

  6 May 2021

  In the pod today: we speak with the winner of the Champions of Cheese Awards; the Cricket Players Association says that New Zealand's IPL stars hope to leave India within the next 24 hours and the… Audio

• Best of First Up for Wednesday 5 May

  5 May 2021

  In the pod today: Sol3 Mio singer encourages others by getting the Covid-19 vaccine; no one wants to see the head lice notice come home from school ... but one Northland woman saw a business… Audio

• Best of First Up for Tuesday 4 May

  4 May 2021

  In the pod today: the Indian Youth Congress tells us it was just answering a call for help when they delivered an oxygen tank to the New Zealand High Commission in New Delhi; buckle up, we're going to… Audio

• Best of First Up for Monday 3 May

  3 May 2021

  In the pod today: a leading epidemiologist says we shouldn't risk sending our athletes to Tokyo for the Olympics; nine border workers lose their jobs because they refuse to be vaccinated and how is… Audio

• Best of First Up for Friday 30 April

  30 Apr 2021

  In the pod today: We catch up with Joseph Parker as he prepares for his first fight under a new trainer; a woman excommunicated by the Exclusive Brethren Church likens it to becoming a refugee in her… Audio

• Best of First Up for Thursday 29 April

  29 Apr 2021

  In the pod today: Fiji continues to record new cases of Covid-19 as the country locks down; Cook Islanders are wondering where their travel bubble is; we catch up with Olympic surfer Ella Williams… Audio

• Best of First Up for Wednesday 28 April

  28 Apr 2021

  In the pod today: a man is self isolating in Northland after travelling to New Zealand from Perth - despite the city being in lockdown; we meet new ACT MP Toni Severin; New Zealanders in India are… Audio

• Best of First Up for Tuesday 27 April

  27 Apr 2021

  In the pod today: is the uproar over the government's Five Eyes alliance comments less about the facts and more about the gender of the politicians who made them; National's deputy leader Dr Shane… Audio

• Best of First Up for Friday 23 April

  23 Apr 2021

  In the pod today: oxygen and hospital beds are in short supply in India as they're overwhelmed with covid infections.. will our Government extend the travel ban? an animal sanctaury filled with… Audio

• Best of First Up for Thursday 22 April

  22 Apr 2021

  In the pod today: What do winemakers do with the tens of thousands of tonnes of leftover grape remnants? the health system gets its biggest shakeup in decades - we ask people from across the sector… Audio

• Best of First Up for Wednesday 21 April

  21 Apr 2021

  In the pod today: the first flight on another planet happened so why should we care; Vodafone backtracks on a warning to staff against holiday travel to Australia - could you really lose your job if… Audio

• Best of First Up for Tuesday 20 April

  20 Apr 2021

  In the pod today: European football is in turmoil after the creation of a new "Super League"; Australians and New Zealanders can now travel freely across the Tasman but for those who arrived a couple… Audio