In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about a media tussle with Pharmac, a so-called 'trainweck' interview by the broadcasting minister and two interesting Media Council decisions.

Wales' national vegetable and emblem, the Welsh Leek, is now officially protected. Karyn talks with food historian Carwyn Graves.

Invercargill's streets are set to be a lot more colourful. Artists from as far as Japan and the United States are taking to the city's CBD - armed with spray cans. The South Sea Spray Festival is the brainchild of Invercargill-based graffiti artist Danny Owen (aka Deow).

Dillon Mayhew, Associate Professor from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Te Heranga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington joins us once again to talk mathematics. This week, the discipline of origami or paper folding has received a considerable amount of mathematical study. Fields of interest include a given paper model's flat-foldability and the use of paper folds to solve up-to cubic mathematical equations.

Sleeping in separate beds is more common our later years. It could be because one person snores, or becuase a parent is co-sleeping with a child. Steven Dromgool is a relationship therapist and author with specialties in connection and communication issues. He's the director of Relate Counselling in Auckland. He joins to the show to explain how to navigate night-time separation.

The BBC's Robert Hughes-Jones fills us in on a major court case in Belgium's capital, strikes in the UK, and the Nobel Peace Prize

A new record has been set by a pet in south-east London as the world's oldest living cat.

Happy birthday to the humble text message. It's thirty years since the first Short Message Service (SMS) was sent to a mobile phone by an engineer in the UK. Technology correspondent Peter Griffin joins Karyn on Nights.

Regular guest Malia Johnstone of Movement of the Human joins the show with guest Peter Vosper to discuss dance and technology. Peter is the director of Vospertron and works with dancers and programmable LED light suits that interface with graphics.

Veteran sports broadcaster and cricket commentator Bryan Waddle joins Karyn on the programme for a rundown of the latest sporting news.