20 May 2016

Best of the Week - 20 May 2016

From Best Of The Week, 12:00 pm on 20 May 2016

Highlights from RNZ National's programmes for the week ending Friday 20 May. This week.....where you live in this country could be critical to your chances of getting skin cancer and surviving it, a moving interview with an author who'se written her last book while dying of melanoma-related brain cancer, are employers doing enough to embrace a workforce thats getting dramatically older, a damning report on decades of under reporting on fish catches in our waters, the Panama Papers back in the headlines after a team of New Zealand journalists scanned the raw data, how rail fatalities affect the other victims - the train drivers themselves, the big risks of space debris, a new geological period marked by our impact on the planet, the fascinating history of bananas, Hungarian refugee and pianist Lili Kraus who toured remote rural areas and contributed to this country's cultural scene over many years.

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