First Up

The country's largest primary care organisation believes that with GPs now part of the Covid-19 vaccination programme, 70 per cent of the population could have the jab by Christmas. The Ministry… Read more Audio

New Zealand's Super Rugby teams resume matches against their Ozzie counterparts this weekend in the opening round of Super Rugby's Trans-Tasman. While most Kiwi fans havent paid much attention to… Read more Audio

Joining us for a look at the weekend in fresh produce is our Minister of the Fruit and Veges, Glenn Forsyth - fruit buy for the weekend - mandarins! Audio

Six screenwriters from New Zealand will be taking part in a 'Workshop and Mentoring' experience with leaders in the global film industry. The experience is run by Blacklist, and the 6 scripts were… Read more Audio

Sam Owen is a Waikato sharemilker who's had his fair share of struggles with mental health and depression. He says his condition has seen his health, work and family life suffer. Now he talks to Young… Read more Audio

Turning to India now where bodies continue to wash up in rivers as Covid-19 spreads through poor rural areas. More than a quarter of a million Indians have now died from the virus, and it's still not… Read more Audio

The Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson acknowledges that his government's public sector pay restrictions have caused distress and upset, but maintains the restrictions don't amount to a pay freeze… Read more Audio

A stoush is brewing over the authenticity of a musket purported to have belonged to the great Ngapuhi chief Hongi Hika ... which is expected to fetch over 100-thousand dollars at an auction on Monday… Read more Audio

It looks like winter is well and truly on the way with a cold front rapidly making its way up the country. Joining Nathan Rarere is weather commentator and Tik Tok influencer with over 100,000… Read more Audio

It's time now for us to catch up with one of the reporters from the Local Democracy Reporting programme who've been keeping us up to date with news from all corners of Aotearoa. This morning we're… Read more Audio

Nathan Rarere spoke with our correspondent Kamahl Santamaria in Doha as the death toll from Israeli air strikes and Palestinian rockets continues to climb. Audio

We head to Europe to catch up with our correspondent Anita Purcell-Sjölund in Sweden. Audio