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Commentator Tony Johnson takes stock of the All Blacks and Black Ferns performance on the weekend.

First Up's Minister of Fruit and Vege, Glenn Forsyth, features an asparagus grower, with some advice for the kitchen, and recommends mushrooms and kiwifruit for the week ahead.

Correspondent Katherine Firkin brings First Up the latest from North America.

10-year-old Bob plays the bongo drums; young Summer reviews a book she loved, The Dragon Who Lost His Spark; and there are Fun Facts about native New Zealand bats.

The Tokoroa story is the jobs story. Shamubeel meets a number of young people who are not in employment or training to try to find out why the town's unemployment rate is twice as high as neighbouring Hamilton. And he discovers that, during difficult times with mill closures, the local council has been instrumental in helping people find jobs.

Kadambari Raghukumar

Politicians agree something has to be done about the economic burden of superannuation, but they all have a different spin on how New Zealand can cope

A wrap of the day's big stories

All the top stories and other headlines from the day

Todd Karehana is a Maori and queer writer-director from Kawerau, and his short film Socks is in Show Me Shorts. He says the story starts with his own childhood in the Mormon Church. His brother died when he was about nine, and the visiting missionaries were around at the same time. Todd says the film is in black and white because colour pulled attention away from the performance. He describes the...

Dylan Reeve takes Perlina through The Reality Machine, a seven-part RNZ podcast with two episodes a week. He has worked in and around reality TV for more than 20 years and was a contestant in the first season of The Traitors NZ. He says reality TV gets written off, yet ratings show plenty of people watch it. Dylan talks about duty of care and the tension between producers and participants. He also...

Dan Slevin joins Perlina on Zoom to review three films. Sense & Sensibility is Georgia Oakley's adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, written by Diana Reid. The Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, move to a cottage in Devon after the family estate passes to their half-brother. Daisy Edgar-Jones plays Elinor and Esmé Creed-Miles plays Marianne. Whalefall is a survival thriller directed by Brian D...

Dan Slevin joins Perlina on Zoom to review three films. Sense & Sensibility is Georgia Oakley's adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, written by Diana Reid. The Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, move to a cottage in Devon after the family estate passes to their half-brother. Daisy Edgar-Jones plays Elinor and Esmé Creed-Miles plays Marianne. Whalefall is a survival thriller directed by Brian D...

Duncan and Erin McKellar talk about turning their family story into a musical. Duncan is a psychiatrist who works with people living with dementia, and his mother was diagnosed with younger onset dementia at 60. The show grew from a song Erin wrote using lyrics her dad had written. Duncan says the aim is to bring the person back into the story, and he has heard from families who used what they lea...

Jason Te Mete explains how Battle Chorus works. The audience is split into two teams, learns a set of choruses on the night, then sings off. Jason co-created it with Rutene Spooner, and it began in 2019 as a commission for the Auckland Cabaret Festival. This year's disco edition is at the Nelson Arts Festival, with songs from Earth, Wind and Fire and the Village People, and Jason says most people...

Megan Brown, Artistic Director of the Tauranga Arts Festival, gives Perlina a heads up on this year's festival highlights.

The top stories and other headlines at midday

Bonnie Harrison is here guiding us through the latest weird and useful headlines from the world of science including how "star bathing" could help calm the nervous system, a breakthrough that may allow damaged knee cartilage to be regrown, and a development in tattoos that can be switched on and off.

Research tracking nearly 100,000 university students across the US, UK, and Canada over 35 years shows perfectionism is on the rise. Surprisingly, the trend began well before social media and smartphones became part of daily life. So what's driving it? Thomas Curran is a Professor of Psychology at the London School of Economics and one of the world's leading experts on perfectionism. He joins Jim...

Pioneering electronic artist Gary Numan will be making a long-awaited trip Down Under in the new year as part of a three-date arena tour with Simple Minds. 

These days Dene Hohweiler calls Freiburg home, a world-renowned cycling city on the edge of Germany's Black Forest. 

Three years ago Tyler Brickley decided to fight back against trolls by starting his own movement, one that floods people with kindness.

Olivia Dean's sold-out Auckland concert on Saturday night is the first major test for the newly redeveloped Western Springs Bowl. The grounds were home to the speedway for nearly 100 years, but the venue has now been transformed into an outdoor venue, complete with a permanent stage and upgraded facilities. With thousands expected through the gates, RNZ's Olivia Wilson went along to see the Britis...

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning quiz. Jack is the mind behind the questions on BBC's quiz show Only Connect, renowned for being both hard - and at the same time totally obvious. Wake up your brain and have a go!

Could one spy have helped prevent nuclear war? In his latest book Redwood, bestselling author Ben Macintyre uncovers the remarkable true story of a KGB agent who secretly worked for British intelligence at the height of the Cold War, driven by a deeply personal problem he hoped the West could solve. Ben's previous books include The Spy and the Traitor, Operation Mincemeat, and A Spy Among Friends....