Nine To Noon

Chris Schulz joins Lynn to look at WeCrashed (Apple+), another truth-inspired downfall drama starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway that details how WeWork, which was one of the world's most valuable start-ups...until it wasn't. He'll also talk about the Kiwi-peppered comedy Our Flag Means Death (Sky/Neon) and one for the kids: Turning Red (Disney+).

Speech and Language Therapist Christian Wright talks with Lynn Freeman about the language skills new entrants need to have a successful start to school.

Technology commentator Peter Griffin joins Lynn to talk about moves by Chorus to start switching off the last copper line connections, with most households now on fibre where it's available. What does it mean for those that aren't?

Cynthia Morahan reviews Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti (translated from the original Italian by Elizabeth Harris) published by Text Publishing

If you try and compare your life to that of Louis XVI you might think that there's no comparison. The notorious French king had riches, servants and palaces, including that epic one at Versailles. Yet while Louis XVI was unbelievably rich, before his unfortunate appointment with the guillotine he lived in unsanitary conditions in a time of horrifically bad healthcare. Economist Grant Ryan hopes his new book and online graph-making tool can help people stop comparing their own lives to others with a method he calls Comaparonics.

UK correspondent Matthew Parris joins Lynn to talk about the overwhelming response to the new homes-for Ukrainian-refugees scheme, the squatters who moved into a Russian oligarch's mansion, Boris Johnson's visit to Saudi Arabia in search of more oil, hope for Nazanin Zahari Ratcliffe in Iran, Rod Stewart's DIY pothole fix and no more doughnuts or suits as an inflation measure.

January's volcanic eruption in Tonga and subsequent tsunami garnered international intrigue, but a New Zealand volcanologist is the first overseas scientist allowed into the kingdom to piece together what led to such a massive explosion. When Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano erupted in January, explosions could be heard as far away as New Zealand and Alaska. It is now known to be the largest volcanic explosion ever recorded - double that of the next largest, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991. Professor of Volcanology at the University of Auckland, Shane Cronin has examined ash from the explosion, video footage and aerial images. He has a working theory that the side of the volcano collapsed, vastly expanding the already explosive interactions between magma and water. Lynn Freeman speaks to Professor Cronin who is in managed isolation in Tonga.

Animal welfare campaigner Angus Robson is frustrated at what he says is a lack of progress made by the Ministry of Primary Industries to push requirements for shade and shelter into law, to prevent farm animals from suffering heat stress. The Ministry's code of welfare for dairy cattle stipulates farmers "need to have in place management plans to provide shelter and/or shade". But there's no legal requirement for farmers to provide shade or shelter and MPI was contacted 21 times during the summer with heat-related animal welfare concerns. MPI's Director of Compliance Services Gary Orr joins Lynn Freeman, along with Angus Robson.

An estimated three million refugees have fled the war in Ukraine into neighbouring countries, including over 1.8 million into Poland. The international disaster relief charity Shelterbox has been on the ground in Poland since early March. Lynn Freeman speaks with Martin Strutton from Shelterbox in Krakow in South East Poland.

Many festivals have had to cancel live performances during this omicron outbreak, but arts commentator Lyne Pringle believe dance companies are doing a great job at finding ways to connect.