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If you're spectating or running in the marathon in Auckland tomorrow, you might wonder why there's a woman dressed as a giant poo in the race. That's Anna Ross, who along with her team is running to raise awareness and money for gut cancer.

Saturday Morning's medical expert Dr Buzz Burrell is back to answer listener questions and track what ailments are widespread as we head into summer.

Country Calendar producer and host Dan Henry joins us to talk about helming the longest-running television programme in New Zealand history and how they manage to find a new patch of rural life every week.

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Searching for Afunakwa is a documentary and music project that traces the little-known origins of one of the most recognizable pieces of "world music" of the 1990s. Sweet Lullaby, by Deep Forest became a global hit, selling millions of copies and appearing in films, advertisements, and viral videos. But the woman behind the vocals was never acknowledged. DJ Matt Singmin went looking for Afunakwa, deep in the forests of the Solomon Islands

For more than four decades, Distinguished Professor Graham Hingangaroa Smith has dedicated himself to validating and advocating for Maori education systems that better serve indigenous peoples. His work identifying and analysing Kaupapa Maori Theory has been transformative in kura, and the world of academia both here and overseas which is why he's been recognised this week with the Te Puawaitanga Research Excellence Medal at the Royal Society Te Aparangi Awards.

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BBC security Correspondent Frank Gardner joins to give us the latest on the monumental elections that define last week and next week - namely, the elections in Israel and the upcoming midterm decisions to be made by voters in the United States of America.

A deeply compelling innovation has cancer specialists buzzing. An experimental mRNA cancer vaccine which has allowed people with high-risk melanoma to live longer, cancer-free, according to drug companies Moderna and Merck. Medical Oncologist and Melanoma NZ Spokesperson Gareth Rivalland has been leading this from the New Zealand end and will explain what it means.

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