Weekend Variety Wireless - Hour 2 - 19/05/18

ENVIRONEWS Botanist Peter De Lange responds to this Stuff opinion piece about Kauri Dieback criticising experts and claiming everythings going to be fine. Also, Is the monarchy's role in New Zealand still relevant today? It's the age-old question that continues to come up year after year. Graeme Hill is joined by Dr Sean Palmer, historian and monarchist on the night of the wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. On the occasion of a royal wedding, Dr Palmer and Graeme debate the role of our constitutional monarchy plus a whole lot of fun facts from English Royal history. Dr Palmer says its very valuable to have a monarchy, theres something about this system of government that works very, very well. He admits there will be some monarchys which arent pleasant, but he doesnt think we have to "grow up any further. Listen to the full audio with Dr Sean Palmer above. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone. RadioLIVE.