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There's been a race to the finish line for port companies to get those stevedores and other port workers who go on board visiting ships, vaccinated before tonight's 9pm deadline. All port workers who board international ships must have had at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by now. National Secretary Craig Harrison says there might be some protests for the policy, but he doesn't expect it to be widespread.

Tamaki Makaurau writer and body positivity campaigner and educator Angela Barnett has teamed up on a project with illustrator Ruby Jones that tells the stories of seven people, looking at the intersection between body image and mental well-being across size, colour, orientation, ability and illness.Angela has written their stories, and Ruby has created two drawings per story, funded by the Mental Health Foundation in Mental Health Awareness Week.

As this year's Show Me Shorts Film Festival kicks off, covid has meant that it has had to pivot and change over the last month or so. Acting Festival Director, Gareth Farry joins us to give us an overview of what's on the programme and where people can see it.

It's mental health awareness week and to mark it, chef, food writer and Bryan Crump talks to a very well-known New Zealander on the sudden death of his close friend, Wellington cafe owner and entrepreneur, Nick Ryan. Martin Bosley wrote a heartfelt obituary for Nick after his death. He talks to Bryan about the grieving process after suicide.

It's still three months till Christmas but the mad shopping rush has already started as retailers scrabble to offset major shipping delays. Covid and shipping backlogs made for a tricky shopping experience last year - fears are this year it will be worse. Greg Harford is the Chief Executive of Retail NZ and joins us now.

Its our way or the Highway says a majority of Dunedin councillors - who voted today to make the main street one way to cars. George street will only be open to cars travelling North to South - towards the Octagon as part of a transformation of the city's main shopping precinct in a bid to make the space more liveable for all. Councillor Jim O'Malley voted in favour of the move and joins us now to discuss how this will change the city.

Last week news broke that streaming giant Netflix has acquired the rights to the full back catalogue of the works of 20th Century author Roald Dahl. It had to spend a huge amount of cash to get the Roald Dahl Story Company, and Netflix has committed to a production budget of over one billion dollars to create series and one off productions out of Dahl's stories. It's the latest in a series of big scale "content" acquisitions in the fierce competition between streaming services. To try and figure out what is going on, and what this might mean for what turns up on our screens, I'm joined by Tamaki-Makaurau based director and producer Amanda Robinson.

It can be easy to think we know what a political caste thinks about an issue, but it's often not that cut and dried. Dr Eric Crampton is the chief economist of the New Zealand Initiative and he joins Bryan to look at the history of Libertarian attitudes towards vaccination.

We'll cross live to London for a global view of covid, climate change and a looming battle between Google and the European Union.

This week marks Mental Health Awareness - Shaun Robinson is chief executive of Mental Health Foundation of NZ - he chats to Bryan about what it's like to manage a mental health condition