First Up

As part of a weekly animal segment this year, we're speaking to animal sanctuaries around New Zealand The Pukaha National Wildlife Centre is an unfenced sanctuary for native wildlife and a visitor… Read more Audio

New Zealand is an archipelego sitting on top of a sea of magma and shifting tectonic plates. It's a good thing, then, that we've got people like GNS 'hazards and risk scientist' Sally Potter here to… Read more Audio

Joining Nathan from his hometown of Wellington is our Minister of Fruit and Veges Glenn Forsyth who's been catching up with local growers and sellers. Audio

From the Festival that brought you Pussy Riot in 2019 - Auckland Live's Fringe Town is back for 2021. For a week, artists take over the Auckland Town Hall as part of the Auckland Fringe Festival and… Read more Audio

To the United States now where former president Donald Trump's second impeachment trial is into its third day. Shocking new evidence has been introduced, including footage of Vice President Mike Pence… Read more Audio

Nadine Hickman's own struggles with mental health gave her the drive to do 'more than just lament' when she heard New Zealand's mental health statistics. So she's started a magazine called PEPTALK… Read more Audio

Turning to Europe now which is battling not only outbreaks of new COVID strains but some of the chilliest temperatures in a decade. Catherine Walbridge speaks with Nathan Rarere from Vienna, Austria.

A bit of a palaver in parliament this week with Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi being booted out of the house by speaker Trevor Mallard for refusing to wear a tie - but who exactly is the man… Read more Audio

Some property owners in the small West Coast town of Reefton are in for whopping rates increases of more than 200 per cent if the Buller District Council adopts a proposed new rating formula. LDR is… Read more Audio

Zoom call too boring? Want to see if everyone is really listening? For a mere $10 you can have a goat from Cronkshaw Fold Farm 'butt' into your Zoom call and thousands of people around the world are… Read more Video, Audio

Auckland teenager Fran Jonas was doing typically teenage things when she got a rather untypical phone call this week. The 16-year-old spin bowler was yesterday named for the first time in the New… Read more Audio

It's time for us to catch up with one of the ace reporters from the Local Democracy Reporting programme, the free public-interest news service dedicated to strengthening coverage of parts of New… Read more Audio