5 Aug 2025

First Up - The Podcast, Tuesday 5 August

From First Up Podcast, 6:30 am on 5 August 2025

On today's First Up pod: our correspondent Chris Gilbert explains why pressure is growing on the Japanese Prime Minister to resign; in we hear about a 91 year old council candidate who's actually following his friends' advice NOT to spend his most of his remaining years at council board tables and the government's planning to replace NCEA, we ask uni students what their experience was like at high school. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!