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6:32 AM.On today's First Up pod - Nick Truebridge in for Nathan: tributes continue to flow for Olivia Newton John with a state funeral to be held; the FBI raids Mar-a-Lago - the home of former President… Read more Audio

6:31 AM.On today's First Up pod - Nick Truebridge in for Nathan: the Commonwealth Games wraps up - we talk with the CEO of Sport NZ, Raelene Castle about the success of the New Zealand team Will National's… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Nick Truebridge in for Nathan: Tauranga's former mayor sets up an aid charity in Ukraine; our Commonwealth Games chef de mission Nigel Avery joins us from Birmingham; we hear… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - new research finds the right music can help you to tune out pain; country singer Tami Neilson calls for her audiences to mask up and the All Blacks' reputation is at stake in… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we have the latest on our Commonwealth Games competitors; former National swimming coach Mark Bone explains why our elite athletes feel unsupported by the current funding… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we go to the UK to find out if our once lovely Ellie Jay has now become insufferable after the English victory in Euro 22 We're live from Birmingham as it rains gold on the… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we have the latest from the games in Birmingham; New Zealand's maritime and air borders are now fully open for the first time since the start of the pandemic and a concerning… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - USA's Monkey pox numbers hit 1000 a day; our reporter Felicity Reid is in Birmingham for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games and a bus with a vision to make eye… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - some Australian sports stadiums are bringing back cans instead of one-use plastic cups to save on waste. Should the same happen here? The Deputy PM Grant Robertson jets off… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - our Commonwealth Games athletes prepare for action in the UK; an Florida activist challenges the Supreme Court by hoping to invoke the name of Satan at his old high school… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - talk of inflation, Gib and petrol prices take a backseat for the day as we talk the Pox that the WHO has declared a health emergency - we speak with epidiologist Michael… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - President Biden tests positive for Covid-19; New Zealand tests positive for terrible weather, our weather guru updates us for the weekend; claims that some carers to work 24… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we head to the sweltering heat UK where temperatures topped 40 degrees for the first time yesterday, we talk inflation with the finance and deputy prime minister Grant… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Auckland Mayor Phil Goff discusses the pedestrianisation of the city centre. Will it become a no-go zone for cars? If you've gotten out of the habit of wearing your mask… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - National's deputy leader Nicola Willis on how her party would bring down the cost of living and economist Shamubeel Eaqub crunches the numbers; there's a deadly heatwave in… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod with Nick Truebridge in for Nathan - America's thirst for oil saw US President Joe Biden bump fists with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the weekend; the quarrying… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - a new study finds Maori and Pacific patients could be missing out on critical heart treatment because diagnosis methods were developed for white Americans; the government… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - drama at the Pacific Islands Forum as Chinese officials are ejected from a key meeting; we're joined by a Christchurch butcher at his wit's end after his business was flooded… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - senior citizens afraid to leave home because of declining mask use, we hear from Grey Power's president; Wellington's Sky Stadium is scrambling to get staff thanks to Covid… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we find out what the 'atmospheric river' has done to rainfall in this country; 900 clinicians penned a letter to officials saying the health system is unsafe, under-resourced… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the Pacific Islands Forum's in disarray after Kiribati's 11th hour decision not to take part; Japan's election day's under the shadow of the assassination of former Prime… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - UK PM Boris Johnson is to step down as leader of the conservative party; Floods cause chaos in NSW and torential rain is on the radar for NZ and reports of a gunman on the… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - UK PM Boris Johnson faces massive pressure to resign; American supporters of reproductive rights are mobilising en masse to fight back against the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - an Australian religious sect have been charged in connection with the death of an eight year old girl; 4th of July weekend celebrations have been shattered by multiple… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - A 22 year old Danish man suspected of the weekend's shooting in a Copenhagen shopping mall, has appeared in court; Spores that burrow into young cicadas during their long… Read more Audio