Nine To Noon

30 years after being part of the UN Protection Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Captain Ben Green has returned and met some of the students he helped protect.

The country's major banks have signed an agreement to make it easier to open a bank account, which usually requires proof of ID and address. 

 New planning laws replacing the RMA are too vague to prevent development in flood-prone areas, according to planning experts.

Roger Parsons is a life long tramper and at 82 years old has become a master of adjustment to enable his love of tramping to continue.

Chef Olly Le Maitre and hospitality professional Santiago Burgos are taking that leap with their new restaurant Marlowe, based in Christchurch's CBD. 

Dale Husband is a long time broadcaster and Radio Waatea presenter hosting a Maori focused current affairs programme. Liam Hehir is a Palmerston North lawyer, political commentator and a National Party member.

David discusses access to information about health services, a local City Mission reviews  after the death of Braydon Hepworth, new schools but no  libraries and the new exhibition on Antartic Connections.

Jenna Todd from Time Out Bookstore reviews  Partita by Barbara Kingsolver and American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee. 

The new film telling the story of Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa mountaineer who achieved the world-first summit alongside Sir Edmund Hillary.  

Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney reports from Lyon.

Despite not having driven himself for several decades, his love for the vehicle which started when his dad worked at the local Morris dealership, has not diminished. 

Councillor Arohanui Allen says the region would need 22,000 more homes to bring it up to the national average for home ownership.

The alert is in the Commission's Watch List for this year, which also highlights fears about the safety of level crossings and the risk of collisions. 

Sports commentator Sam Ackerman

Michele A'Court and Irene Pink with a lighter take on some recent stories.

Tess discusses the search for unmarked graves of mental asylum patients, hopes for an end to the entertainment drought at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr stadium, Central Otago District Council drops plan to dump human effluent on a local farm and a Dunedin surfer will captain New Zealand's youngest longboarding squad at the world championship in El Salvador.

Jack McConnell from Unity Books Auckland reviews Rose Tremain's The Housekeeper, a reimagining of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and discusses film adaptations of the classic novel.

Bo Stjerne Thomsen is a former Head of Educational Impact at LEGO Education and an Honorary Professor of Entrepreneurship Education based in Billund, Denmark. 

A Japanese reporter has been detained in the Russian territory of Sakhalin, a bridge that links China and North Korea has officially opened, dangerous levels of pollution in Singapore, and Vietnam buries war dead. Elizabeth Beattie is a journalist for The Japan Times based in Tokyo

Raihana Attaee was a judge and Maqsood Rezayee a university lecturer when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. After a middle of the night phone call warning their region had fallen to the Taliban, they were forced to move around regularly as threats to their wellbeing were made and their location found. Eventually they were put in a safe house in Kabul before the couple and their young s...

KiwiBudget is an app designed to specifically help manage the finances of New Zealanders, and especially working families. 

Consumers considering subscription solar power plans are being warned to be clear about the terms and conditions they're locking themselves into. 

Film and TV reviewer Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to talk what she's been watching.

Loneliness might sound more of an older person's problem, but research suggests it's young people who feel it most acutely. 

A look at some of the common scams around - something that the average New Zealand will encounter a staggering 152 times per year.