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Ahead of this week's release of Black Sheeps, actor Nathan Meister is here to talk about reprising his role from Black Sheep twenty years ago and Weta Workshop's Stephen Crowe tells us about creating the titular ovine monstrosities.

Academic and pop culture history expert Lorna Piatta-Farnell is here to talk about Halloween and its origins, particularly whether it's an example of an Americanising influence on our culture or a link back to our Celtic social history.

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.

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.

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.

Labour weekend is traditionally the long weekend we rip into the garden. There are sales on, the sun (hopefully - whereever you are in the motu) is shining! It's a time for clearing out the weeds and new plantings... a time of new beginnings. The queen of green thumbs, Hannah Zwartz is here to help us make the right choices.

Sleeping Beauty is back with the Royal New Zealand Ballet this month - and touring around the country. The ballet steps us into a fairytale of magic, telling the story of Princess Aurora, a wicked curse and of course, true love. It's all happening under the watchful, wise eye of Greg Horsman came into the Wellington studio to talk it through.

More than a century after his great-grandfather arrived in New Zealand, Harpreet Singh still gets told he doesn't belong here. Sikhs have been confronted at public events, racist graffiti has appeared outside schools, and anti-immigration rhetoric has once again entered the public conversation.

Three people develop dementia every hour - that's 500 new cases every week. And our aging population means the number of people with dementia is expected to nearly double by 2050. But navigating the disease is incredibly difficult, both for those who have it and their caregivers. Nurse, Naomi Anderson, spent 20 years working in dementia care and says there are ways we can make that journey a whole lot less heartbreaking.

Around the world most people imagine penguins on icebergs and icy plains, while here in Aotearoa we're more likely to see the Little Blue paddling in through the waves and nesting on our bountiful rocky shores. But the elusive Fiordland penguin or tawaki much prefers the living deep in the green over the blue, burrowing under the native trees. Dr Thomas Mattern stopped by for a chat after days out tracking these amazing manu.

Social media bans for under 16s have seen cross-party support this election. But while most parties are wary of it - social media has also become a crucial pillar in campaigning. Dr Mona Krewel from Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka has been tracking social media's role in the last three elections and joined us to discuss.