28 Jan 2026

First Up - The Podcast, Wednesday 28 January

From First Up Podcast, 6:30 am on 28 January 2026

On today's First Up pod: we start a new feature this morning by hitting op-shops around the motu, this morning veteran broadcaster John "Boggy" McDowell joins us now from the Hospice Queenstown shop; Tongan advocate Melino Maka tells us who food safety laws disproportionately affect Pasifika and other migrant communities and we speak to snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott as she prepares to defend her title at the winter Olympics. First Up - Voice of the Nathan.