All episodes
Tuesday, 9 February 2021
- 5:07 UK's lockdown working but concern over vaccine effectiveness
- 5:13 America's Cup umpiring a challenge with increased boat speeds
- 5:20 The Wonderful World of TradeMe with Millie Silvester
- 5:29 Who's Up at 5am? UFG Flower Market
- 5:33 Up to $12m needed to repair Auckland City Art Gallery
- 5:43 Air NZ under fire for work done for Saudi Arabia's Navy
- 5:50 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout halts in South Africa
Friday, 5 February 2021
- 5:09 Democrats vote to expel Republican "lunatic" lawmaker
- 5:13 Scientists photograph rare ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
- 5:22 Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth
- 5:34 Tom Brady plays in yet another Super Bowl
- 5:43 Enrolments a third lower for Albany Primary School
- 5:47 Auckland's Pride Festival kicks off with many free events
- 5:50 Bumper kitten season sees SPCA busy finding forever homes
- 5:54 Waitangi Day celebrations begin as PM delivers 4th speech
Thursday, 4 February 2021
- 5:08 Testing the way to open up Austria under 3rd lockdown
- 5:15 Waikouaiti School adapting to no water while lead in supplies
- 5:22 NZ Track and Field Champs desperate for officials
- 5:30 Cricket statistician on how NZ qualified top for Test champs
- 5:34 LDR Northland: new wharf project for Pouto
- 5:44 Helen Clark:Despite record Suu Kyi should be released
- 5:53 Virologist says vaccine approval timely and safe
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
- 5:08 Aussie correspondent Pam Corkery on fires in Perth
- 5:13 Mataura's toxic dross to be removed, govt paying for half
- 5:20 Goat Island marine reserve encroached by poachers
- 5:26 NZ Made: Baillie Buchanan's Let's Get Married NZ
- 5:34 Tutor not surprised by bad maths results
- 5:47 Property prices on the up and up
- 5:52 Economics of rising house prices
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
- 5:08 Champion NHS fundraiser in hospital with Covid
- 5:14 NZ influential contemporary painters Bill Hammond dead at 73
- 5:21 The Wonderful World of TradeMe with Ruby Topzand
- 5:30 Record breaking year for adopting greyhounds as pets
- 5:34 Maritime union keen for cruise ship bubble
- 5:43 Navalny supporters protest his detention across Russia
- 5:48 Cancer Control Agency:Maori suffering disproportionately
- 5:53 Govt introduces law to establish Maori wards on councils
Monday, 1 February 2021
- 5:11 How Sweden is coping with new Covid-19 restrictions
- 5:20 Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth
- 5:31 Climate Change Commission: NZ not doing enough to meet targets
- 5:42 Madeleine de Young: nominee for Young NZer of the Year
- 5:48 Covid long haulers fighting to be heard
Friday, 29 January 2021
- 5:07 Mid East Correspondent Kamahl Santamaria on US & Iran
- 5:14 Where are this summer's sound of cicadas?
- 5:23 Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth
- 5:32 The Look of Love with Ali Harper - best of Burt Bacharach
- 5:43 Lonely Miaow - Auckland based cat and kitten rescue group
- 5:47 Returnee thoughts of MiQ Day 4 and new rules from Day 12
- 5:52 Vacuum obsessed 5 yo on look out for Henry Hoover
Thursday, 28 January 2021
- 5:09 Austrian vaccine rollout is slow but you can go skiing
- 5:15 Nate's Mates in the States: Aimee Hoch
- 5:25 75 per cent of shark species world wide endangered
- 5:36 LDR Wairarapa: dog detective sniffing out invasive plants
- 5:44 New MPs: Dr Ayesha Verrall, Labour List MP
- 5:50 Two more Covid cases, bad news for tourism operators
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
- 5:07 Australia Day not the celebration it once was
- 5:15 Nate's Mates in the States:Tammy Lyn Newton
- 5:23 NZ Made: artist, Leda Daniel
- 5:33 Who's Up at 5am? Daily Bread in Auckland
- 5:38 Christchurch breaks records with high of 36.7 degrees
- 5:46 Having Covid-19 might not protect from South African variant
- 5:52 Infometric's Brad Olsen on Northland's economy with Covid
Tuesday, 26 January 2021
- 5:09 Vaccine rollout on track in UK
- 5:13 Nate's Mates in the States: Daniel Corbin Garcia
- 5:23 The Wonderful World of TradeMe with Logan Mudge
- 5:32 UFC Dan Hooker to continue fighting despite devastating loss
- 5:36 Space the final frontier: James Parr on space news
- 5:48 Christchurch prepares for HOT weather, fires
Monday, 25 January 2021
- 5:09 Planning underway on Covid vaccine distribution in US
- 5:15 Set "intentions" not "resolutions" for success
- 5:24 Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth
- 5:33 Statistician on how NZ can stay on top in test cricket champs
- 5:37 Local Govt Act needs amendment to fix waste dumping
- 5:46 Cook Islanders can finally travel to NZ, one way only
- 5:50 Cook Islanders looking forward to reciprocal travel from NZ
- 5:54 Epidemiologist on latest community Covid case in Northland
Friday, 18 December 2020
- 5:06 Emotional 24 hours for Save Our Unique Landscape supporters
- 5:09 Keeping Santa Safe Committee:present delivery good to go
- 5:17 Low key Xmas for many Kiwis
- 5:23 Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth
- 5:32 Kiwis travelling locally for Xmas
- 5:34 SPCA wants pet owners to stay vigilant over Summer
- 5:39 Guy Heveldt wraps up 2020 sport with cricket for Xmas
- 5:47 Writer Oscar Kightley reviews 2020 as a play
- 5:52 Kiwis on their Xmas food choices
- 5:53 Annabelle White with her best tips for cooking turkey
Thursday, 17 December 2020
- 5:08 Iran still struggling with Covid-19 with vaccines limited
- 5:24 Research aims to extend life of bumblebee hives
- 5:33 Assistance dogs are expensive but changing people's lives
- 5:37 Humans everwhere make similar facial expressions socially
- 5:46 Matata residents reluctantly leave homes
- 5:50 Kaikoura locals help in rescue from fatal helicopter crash
Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- 5:08 Putin congratulates Biden after Electoral College votes
- 5:22 NZ Made: Mushroomate's Esperanza & Jersey Reyes
- 5:32 First Up's Fish Report with Brett Sellers
- 5:37 Floods disrupt busy hospitality season in Napier
- 5:43 Night skies over summer pretty spectacular away from lights
- 5:48 Who's Up at 5am? Wellington Airport runway resurfaced overnight
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
- 5:08 UK discovers new Covid variant, fishing rights blocking Brexit
- 5:12 Auckland Airport reuniting lost property with its owners
- 5:23 The Wonderful World of TradeMe with Logan Mudge
- 5:31 Windies head home after unsuccessful tour of NZ
- 5:34 NZ joins Australia at top of World Test cricket rankings
- 5:45 Village Trust foodbank busy into Christmas
- 5:53 Epidemiologist happy with rules around Aussie travel bubble
Monday, 14 December 2020
- 5:08 First Covid vaccines shipped around US, electoral college votes
- 5:21 Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth
- 5:31 Allocation of MIQ room vouchers unfair, delays travel
- 5:34 NIWA forecasting hot, dry weather to almost Christmas
- 5:45 Paremoremo prisoners spend time with their children for Xmas
- 5:49 Too much kaimoana being taken from rock pools
- 5:54 Cook Island's pleased with travel bubble with NZ but March?
Friday, 11 December 2020
- 5:06 Daily Covid-19 deaths hit 3000 daily, US President AWOL
- 5:11 NZ golfer Amelia Garvey tees off in first US Women's Open
- 5:14 Luisetti Seeds a Canterbury stalwart
- 5:26 Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth
- 5:34 Two British otters find love the second time around
- 5:46 Whakatane cafe hosting an "orphans' Xmas party"
- 5:49 Mike Chunn excited to be on stage for World's Biggest Pub gig
- 10:00 Best of First Up for Friday 11 December
Thursday, 10 December 2020
- 5:07 Austrians not rushing to sign up for mass testing, vaccinations
- 5:12 Ministry might have averted mosque shootings
- 5:27 Kiwifruit Gold growers to compete with illicit China fruit
- 5:36 Arizona tourism down even to Grand Canyon
- 5:45 Dogs being trained to detect Covid-19 through sweat
- 5:51 Inflatable Christmas Grinch bigger than expected
Wednesday, 9 December 2020
- 5:09 Fruit picking getting unemployed back into work, study
- 5:23 NZ Made: Potted's Mary Van der Velden
- 5:31 The Older The Better: 90+ year olds show off at Circa
- 5:39 Space the final frontier: James Parr answers space questions
- 5:46 UK gives out first Covid-19 vaccine jabs
- 5:51 Whakatane local:town is slowing healing from eruption
- 5:53 Whakaari:Families attend dawn service at Whakatane Heads
Tuesday, 8 December 2020
- 5:08 UK still struggling to secure Brexit deal, vaccine rollout
- 5:23 The Wonderful World of TradeMe with Ruby Topzand
- 5:31 One in 3 households earn less than in February due to Covid
- 5:36 St John staff affected by Whakaari eruption
- 5:44 New Facebook groups big winners due to lockdown
- 5:47 Trump lawyer Rudy Guiliani in hospital for Covid-19
- 5:51 New political poll shows Labour, Adern still most popular
Monday, 7 December 2020
- 5:08 Japanese spacecraft with asteroid rock found in Australia
- 5:24 Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth
- 5:43 Whakaari family victims:ACC grief counselling hard to access
- 5:48 No travel bubble with Cook Is affecting health of people, pets
- 5:52 Golfer Adam Taylor plays 504 holes of golf for charity
Friday, 4 December 2020
- 5:05 Grim Covid-19 deaths in US reach 3000 in one day - a record
- 5:10 Circa Theatre's Cinderella - The Pantomime enchanting audiences
- 5:25 Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth
- 5:32 New AK Art Gallery Maori Art exhibition features 300 artworks
- 5:45 Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong jailed for 1 year
- 5:52 Cook Is tourism operators disappointed no travel before Xmas
Thursday, 3 December 2020
- 5:09 Europe still on various lockdowns heading into Christmas
- 5:22 Pike River families calls for explosion speculation to end
- 5:36 CH Metro Sports Centre opening still 2 years away
- 5:44 Picking the perfect Christmas Tree from tree farm in Drury
- 5:48 US Justice Dept investigates "bribery for pardon" scheme
- 5:53 Ecostore boss:more money needed to achieve carbon neutrality
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
- 5:06 Giuliani denies discussion with Trump about self pardon
- 5:11 Two new buildings for mental health services in Christchurch
- 5:23 NZ Made:Miriama Walesi from Rural Youth and Adult Literacy Trust
- 5:33 What's Blooming? Tony Hayes from UFG on seasonal flowers
- 5:36 Four day working week sounds good but has complications
- 5:46 Whakaari/White Island US victims sue cruise line
- 5:52 Maori/Pacific academics paid less, lower chances of promotion
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
- 5:07 Pubs can serve a scotch egg with a drink in UK lockdown tiers
- 5:23 The Wonderful World of TradeMe with Millie Silvester
- 5:32 NZ Breakers to meet their imports in Melbourne in 2 weeks
- 5:36 CH Earthquake:CTV victims' families continue push for justice
- 5:36 "Unexpected but not unforseeable" charges laid over Whakaari
- 5:39 Plimmerton flood:roads turn to rivers bringing kura down valley
- 5:53 Congestion charges could be on the way for AK CBD
