First Up Podcast

On today's First Up pod - widespread evacuations and tens of thousands of homes are without power as Cyclone Gabrielle bears down on the North Island - we have updates from across the motu and local… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - As people wake up to assess the damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle, we have updates from around the motu from the Mayor of the Far North, our reporters and Metservice; we get… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - we get the latest from Turkey where the death toll now stands at more than 19-thousand; the Act Party reckons that people don't need to earn the new $22.70 minimum wage in… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - Ukraine's president Zelensky is in the UK - Henry Riley joins us from London; we get the update from Turkey where rescuers are racing against time to save people from the… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - the World Health Organisation predicts the final death toll from Turkey's devastating quake could top 30,000; 11 days on from Auckland's record-breaking floods, we're in… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - Turkey is smashed by two huge earthquakes - we have the latest from the disaster zone; in Japan the sushi train could be arriving at its final stop; we ask National's deputy… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - We're in the USA and Africa with our international correspondents; back at home, Auckland's state of emergency is due to end today but with more thunderstorms forecast we're… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - the great egg shortage of 2023 continues.. we tell you what you can use as a substitute; Auckland children can return to school and childcare centres from today.. but how… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - The latest rain update from the Metservice; Ponsonby residents talk of the ongoing stench amid the cleanup after sewage mixed with rainwater on Friday night flooding their… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - two polls but very similar results... why do voters now prefer Chris Hipkins over Chris Luxon? National's deputy leader Nicola Willis is with us; floodwaters almost up to the… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has sacked Conservative Party chair Nahim Zahawi; And as rain still falls in the upper North Island we count the cost of Auckland's worst ever… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - First Up's Minister of Fruit and Veg Glenn Forsyth has 2023's very first fruit of the week! More wet weather just in time for Auckland Anniversary weekend with Northland… Read more Audio