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News and current affairs with Nathan Rarere, weekdays at 5am.
5am - 6am Monday through Friday
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An early morning news and current affairs conversation hosted by Nathan Rarere featuring the people behind key issues and quirky human interest stories from New Zealand and overseas.
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Tuesday, 11 May 2021
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UK: Labour loses big in local elections, coming out of lockdown
11 May 2021To the UK now where we're joined by our correspondent Henry Riley who tells us about the post election re-shuffle in the Labour party's ranks and the Covid-19 alert levels are reducing as lockdown is… Read more Audio
Monday, 10 May 2021
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NZ Indians raise money, sending supplies to India
10 May 2021New Zealands Indian communities have raised tens of thousands of dollars and obtained oxygen and other medical equipment to help with India's relief effort. Nathan Rarere spoke with the president of… Read more Audio
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Calls for repatriation flights to bring NZers home from India
10 May 2021Calls for repatriation flights from India are growing as kiwis stuck there become desperate and scared. In the past day India has recorded more than 403-thousand new cases and over 4-thousand deaths… Read more Audio
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NZ canoe slalom paddler gives up job to focus on Olympics
10 May 2021The Tokyo Olympics are fast approaching ... it's 74 days to go until the games begin. In the lead up, we're talking to New Zealand's Olympic athletes as they prepare for the event they've prepared… Read more Audio
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Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth
10 May 2021And we head now to the fresh produce markets with our Minister of fresh fruit and veggies, Glenn Forsyth. Audio
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New technology involving radio waves could help locate MH370
10 May 2021An aviation expert believes new technology that detects disturbance in radio waves could find the final resting place of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Weak Signal Propagation or WSPR is employed in… Read more Audio
Friday, 7 May 2021
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Hutt Valley High School students protest mouldy classrooms
7 May 2021Hutt Valley High students did their school work on the steps of parliament yesterday in the hope decision makers will replace their mould-riddled classrooms The school closed more than a dozen… Read more Audio
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Travel pause between NSW and NZ as Covid case investigated
7 May 2021Flights from New South Wales to New Zealand are now on pause after a person with no known links to the border tested positive for coronavirus. Covid-19 response Minister Chris Hipkins announced last… Read more Audio
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Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth
7 May 2021Joining Nathan Rarere for a look at what's good in the fresh produce market this week is our minister of the fruit and veges, Mr Glenn Forsyth. Audio
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Middle-aged Stand Up: Jo Ghastly tours The Cool Mum show
7 May 2021There's a "Cool Mum" on the comedy scene in Christchurch - award winner Jo Ghastly presents what could be best described as a motivational seminar, engaging the audience in her parenting challenges… Read more Audio
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Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard should be at Olympics
7 May 2021Transgender New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is all but guaranteed a spot at the Tokyo Olympics. International weightlifting has rejigged its qualifying criteria for the games because of… Read more Audio
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India fears worst of pandemic yet to come
7 May 2021We begin this morning in India where there is criticism and condemnation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government's failed response to the latest deadly wave of Covid-19. The Government is… Read more Audio
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News and current affairs with Nathan Rarere, weekdays at 5am.
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