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The best of each day's First Up, with Nathan Rarere. If listening at 5am is too early, then check out our favourite stories of the morning at a time that suits you.
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First Up - The Podcast, Friday 22 August
22 Aug 2025On today's First Up pod: Anas Mallick tells us about the devastating floods in Pakistan; California's Govenor is taking Trump on at his own game, Bevan Hurley updates us from the USA; First Up… Read more Audio
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First Up - The Podcast, Thursday 21 August
21 Aug 2025On today's First Up pod: teacher strikes and OCR cuts - we talk the week in politics with Labour MP Willow Jean Prime; Taupo and Turangi News editor Dan Hutchinson has news from the central Pleateau… Read more Audio
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First Up - The Podcast, Wednesday 20 August
20 Aug 2025On today's First Up pod: in the Middle East, Hamas has accepted a new ceasefire proposal for Gaza; we look back at the last country to eat their Prime Minister and here in Aotearoa, as teachers go on… Read more Audio
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First Up - The Podcast, Monday 18 August
19 Aug 2025On today's First Up pod: Trump's meeting with Putin was short, Katherine Firkin beams in from New York to tell us if it was sweet; we catch up with swim champ Lewis Clareburt after he made an… Read more Audio
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First Up - The Podcast, Tuesday 19 August
19 Aug 2025On today's First Up pod: Japanese scientists found out what happens when you strap a camera to a seabird - Chris Gilbert explains; the government's scrapping the building consents regime, Deputy Prime… Read more Audio
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First Up - The Podcast, Friday 15 August
15 Aug 2025On today's First Up pod: Bevan Hurley reports on some bombshell claims about the death of Lisa Marie Presley; the New Zealand Air Force Museum has an exhibition commemorating VJ Day 80 years ago and… Read more Audio
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First Up - The Podcast, Thursday 14 August
14 Aug 2025On today's First Up pod: we get world news from the UK and Australia; Labour's education spokesperson Willow Jean Prime talks teachers pay, NCEA and the scrapping of te reo Maori in some school books… Read more Audio
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First Up - The Podcast, Wednesday 13 August
13 Aug 2025On today's First Up pod: Hayden Wilde came back from a hospital bed to do the impossible and taste triathlon victory on the weekend, we speak to the superstar medic who got him back on the bike… Read more Audio
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First Up - The Podcast, Tuesday 12 August
12 Aug 2025On today's First Up pod: Australia's joining France, the UK and Canada in acknowledging Palestine as a state - we ask deputy PM David Seymour what it will take for our government to follow suit… Read more Audio
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First Up - The Podcast, Monday 11 August
11 Aug 2025On today's First Up pod: the presidents of Russia and the United States are planning to meet in Alaska on Friday, we find out why Ukraine's not invited; wildfires have torn across parts of Europe; the… Read more Audio
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First Up - The Podcast, Friday 8 August
8 Aug 2025On today's First Up pod: South Park's had another crack at the Trump administration, Bevan Hurley has his review from New York; Glenn Forsyth is here with fruit of the week and the Farah Palmer Cup… Read more Audio
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First Up - The Podcast, Thursday 7 August
7 Aug 2025On today's First Up pod: Labour's Justice Spokesperson Duncan Webb talks through the week in politics; and it's the Inaugral First Up 7th of August Kids are talented special - we meet a group of… Read more Audio