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Lately for Wednesday 14 September 2022

  • Midweek Mediawatch

    10:35 PM.This week: a look at the continuing coverage of the Queen's death as her funeral approaches, the emotional documentary about a journalist's te reo journey, reactions to the plan for more Māori content… Read more Audio

  • Wellington Facebook institution up for sale

    10:25 PM.A Facebook page which has become a Wellington institution is up for sale. Vic Deals is the biggest online local community in New Zealand - pushing 200,000 members. Owner Grant Burley talks to Karyn… Read more Audio

  • Paul Thomas - florist to the Queen

    10:18 PM.Large queues of mourners have formed outside Westminster Hall in London, where Queen Elizabeth will lie in state for the next four days. On her casket is expected to be a funeral wreath with her… Read more Audio

10:18 Paul Thomas - florist to the Queen

Large queues of mourners have formed outside Westminster Hall in London, where Queen Elizabeth will lie in state for the next four days.

On her casket is expected to be a funeral wreath with  her favourite flower lily of the valley.

Karyn speaks to Paul Thomas who has been a florist to the Queen and royal family for more than 20 years.

She also plays a poem written in tribute to the Queen from the UK's Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. 

Floral tributes are pictured in Green Park, near Buckingham Palace, in London on September 11, 2022. - Charles III was formally proclaimed Britain's new king by the Accession Council on Saturday in a history-laden ceremony following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II.

Thousands of floral tributes were laid in Green Park, near Buckingham Palace, in memory of the Queen. Photo: AFP / SEBASTIEN BOZON

10:25 Wellington Facebook institution up for sale

A Facebook page which has become a Wellington institution is up for sale.

Vic Deals is the biggest online local community in New Zealand - pushing 200,000 members.

Owner Grant Burley talks to Karyn about how it's morphed from an online trading forum for uni students to a go-to site for missing cats, phones and cars, recommendations and daily slices of life in the capital.

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - JULY 14, 2019: Woman use Samsung Galaxy smartphone to log in on the Facebook social network account.

Photo: 123RF

10:35 Midweek Mediawatch

Colin Peacock speaks to Karyn about the continuing coverage of the Queen's death as her funeral approaches.

Also an emotional primetime documentary about a star journalist's te reo journey, reactions to the plan for more Māori content across our media, and a sketchy opinion poll that caused controversy in the capital.  

No pain, no gain: Mike McRoberts in 'Kia Ora Good Evening,' a publicly-funded doco for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori.

No pain, no gain: Mike McRoberts in 'Kia Ora Good Evening,' a publicly-funded doco for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. Photo: Newshub / Three