It feels like there is a lot of grim news around at the moment so we wanted to focus on something a little brighter. And what better than a Kiwi doing brilliantly on the world stage. Formula One driver Liam Lawson has been given another chance in the senior Red Bull team .. this weekend he will partner with four-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen after Isack Hadjar was ruled out with a wrist injury. To discuss, NZ Herald sports journalist Alex Powell joins Jesse.

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Drug companies say an experimental cancer vaccine has prevented the return and spread of cancer in high-risk melanoma patients. Dr Gareth Rivalland was New Zealand's principal investigator in the trial. Marama Davidson discusses the Green Party policy on school lunches. And New York local newspaper editor Mark Frost on why print is not dead.

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The Green Party wants to bring back the school lunch programme to what it was, then expand it to more schools. It's currently at an average cost of $3.58 per lunch. They want to increase it to $6.50, which they estimate would cost $600m a year by 2030. Co-leader Marama Davidson spoke to Guyon Espiner.

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 joined Guyon Espiner to discuss.