First Up

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

The Wiggles are heading our way - Nathan talks with the Red (Simon) and Yellow (Tsehay) Wiggles on the eve of their 2024 tour. Audio

Structured literacy is heading to a classroom near you - but what is it exactly?? RNZ Explainers editor Katie Kenny fills us in Audio

Pumpkin varieties and Jazz Junior apples are leading the fruit and veggie charge this week from the markets with Glenn Forsyth with Fruit of the Week - New Zealand persimmons Audio

An airliner in Senegal has skidded off the runway - Nabil Ahmed Rufai reports from Ghana Audio

Vanuatu's national airline hits the skids - but the island nation is still the happiest on earth - Kalafi Moala reports from Tonga Audio

Stormy Daniels is back on the stand in Donald Trump's hush money trial - Bevan Hurley is covering the case from New York Audio

Labour's Deputy Leader and Kelston MP Carmel Sepuloni joins Nathan in her regular Thursday morning chat to talk about new plans around school lunches, prison plans and importing coal for energy use… Read more Audio

Changes to the lunches in schools programme are on the way. The government's budgeted three dollars per lunch - down from about 8 dollars. Harrison Stott is the founder of the Kitchen Collective… Read more Audio

James Parr tells us about the dark side of the moon and a delay to the latest launch of Boeing's Starliner capsule. Audio

RNZ's Samantha Gee tells Nathan about Nelson residents having to wait 3 years to have the stopbank around the Wairau River repaired Audio

As the war in Ukraine continues, Europe competes in Eurovision - and Dr Anita Purcell-Sjölund casts her eye over it all Audio