29 Aug 2025

First Up - The Podcast, Friday 29 August

From First Up Podcast, 6:30 am on 29 August 2025

On today's First Up pod with Melissa Chan-Green: the school shooter in Minneapolis had links with the Catholic school he targeted and in Pakistan the army's helping rescue people from areas devastated by floods - we catch up with our correspondents; in Aotearoa we're seeing a second peak of influenza before winter ends, immunologist Dr Lisa Connor talks about the work she's doing to create a longer lasting flu vaccine and on Auckland's Karangahape Road, it's fashion week and the rainbow crossing is turning into a runway. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!