First Up

Time to catch up with the Local Democracy Reporting Programme and this morning we're on the West Coast with LDR journalist Brendon McMahon. Audio

To Japan now, soon you're going to hear about life-saving cyborg cockroaches. But first our correspondent in Tokyo Chris Gilbert told us about the reaction there to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Audio

We begin this morning in London, where plans for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth are being finalised as her coffin lies in Edinburgh's St Giles Cathedral. With Nathan Rarere from London is our… Read more Audio

We head to London now where the city is preparing to hold the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, the first time a monarch has been laid to rest there in 70 years. Richard Fitzwilliams is a Royal… Read more Audio

For the past week or so we've been profiling the candidates vying to be the next mayor of Auckland, and this morning we hear from the man many see as the front runner to take the city's top job… Read more Audio

His coconuts are particularly lovely today - he's all about fresh greens and there's nothing greener than his beloved Canberra Raiders..It's Glenn Forsyth. Audio

To Germany now where the passing of Queen Elizabeth II is being remembered, not least for her committment to German British reconciliation after the Second World War. We join our correspondent in… Read more Audio

We begin in the United Kingdom where Queen Elizabeth II's coffin has arrived in Edinburgh after thousands of people lined the streets as it was driven there from Balmoral. Nathan Rarere was joined… Read more Audio