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Prolific British-Canadian marathon runner, author and now documentary maker Martin Parnell, along with filmmaker Kate McKenzie, have made an inspiring and visually stunning film about Afghan women taking great risks to run in the Marathon of Afghanistan.The Secret Marathon is inspired by the story of 25-year-old Zainab, the first Afghan woman to run in Afghanistan's first official marathan in 2015, held in Bamiyan. It tells the story of the other brave women who have followed in her footsteps to stand up for equality. Martin wants to keep the plight of Afghani women in the spot-light, so the film is being re-released around the world as a fund-raiser for Afghan refugees. Martin joins Kathryn Ryan ahead of The Secret Marathon's screening https://tickets.demand.film/event/11666 in Wellington tonight at 6:30 PM at the Roxy Cinema. $5 of every ticket sale is being donated to ChangeMakers Wellington to help recent Afghan refugees resettle.

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the criticism directed at Scott Morrison over two members of his backbench who have been cozying up to US right-ring extremists peddling anti-vax conspiracies. Half of all Australian women have been sexually harassed and a quarter of all men, according to a new survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australia's cricket team has a new captain ahead of the Ashes, following the Tim Paine sexting scandal and Sydneysiders have ranked their own city as among the worst party destinations in the world in a survey of global performance indicators for 2021.

As New Zealanders hit the roads this summer, a couple of young tech entrepreneurs hope their new app will help keep tabs on the cost of that trip. "Roadtrip" www.roadtrip.nz has been developed by university graduates Emory Fierlinger and Ben Robertson. Enter your start point, destination and licence plate number and the app caclulates the petrol cost, and an option for splitting the bill. In time the developers want to add regional pricing to guide drivers to the best deals. The cost of petrol has gone up dramatically in the last 18 months -from just over a $1.80 per litre of 91 Octane in April last year to $2.30 by mid October this year. In some place a litre of 91 has been as much as $2.50. Kathryn speaks with Emory Fierlinger and Ben Robertson.

A new report-card into the wellbeing of New Zealanders finds a concerningly large minority of people and communities with persistently poor wellbeing. The report by the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is the first of its kind. It finds that while most communities in Aotearoa tend to experience good wellbeing most of the time, a number of groups do not including young people, veterans, rainbow communities, Maori and Pacific peoples, rural communities and the disabled. Kathryn speaks with Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Board Chair, Hayden Wano and chair of the Commission's Expert Advisory Group, Sharon Shea, who is also the co-chair of the Maori Health Authority.

New regulations require finance lenders to demonstrate that they are putting in place safe lending practices. What will that mean for borrowers and does it increase the burden of proof required to take out a loan? Financial planner Liz Koh investigates the world of safer lending and also looks at plans to encourage consumers not to spend wildly during the festive season.

It sounds like every teen or tween's worst nightmare: mum and dad drag you off to an uninhabited island for the summer with no wifi or Netflix. And it's the premise of Elizabeth Pulford's new book, a junior mystery adventure called 'A Definitely Different Summer'.

Rebecca joins Lynn to consider how Christopher Luxon's experience might influence how he approaches his new job as National Party leader and the difference between an executive and entrepreneur. She'll also talk about the increase in direct listings on the NZX and why it's a welcome development, but won't gain any significant traction until brokers embrace them.

Quentin Johnson reviews Fracture - Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma by Matthew Parris, published by Allen and Unwin.

Sebastian Kennerknecht is a wildlife photographer and conservationist. He takes award-winning photographs of wild cats in their natural habitat and has twenty different species on his camera roll.

Kelsey joins Lynn to talk about a new study that's found people living in areas of the US that voted heavily for Donald Trump have been nearly three times as likely to die from Covid-19 and Republicans are now the largest group of unvaccinated individuals in the US.