Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
3,666 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJack Tame’s crisp perspective, style and enthusiasm makes for refreshing and entertaining Saturday morning radio on Newstalk ZB.
News, sport, books, music, gardens and celebrities – what better way to spend your Saturdays?
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Estelle Clifford: Norah Jones – Visions
March 09, 2024 02:01 - 6 minutes - 5.85 MBA sister to her previous album, Norah Jones has released her 9th studio album ‘Visions’. The album consists of a vibrant and joyful twelve tracks, celebrating the rollercoaster of life, feeling free, and wanting to dance. It's a stark contrast to her previous album, 'Pick Me Up Off The Floor', released early in the lockdown of 2020, foreshadowing many of the dark emotions that period invoked. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Catherine Raynes: The Women and End of Story
March 09, 2024 01:32 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MBThe Women by Kristin Hannah An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different...
Dougal Sutherland: New priorities emerging for workers
March 09, 2024 01:17 - 7 minutes - 6.89 MBCareer progression seems to be on the back burner for many kiwis. Randstand’s latest Workmonitor report found that employees are prioritising flexibility and mental health over career progression. Over 27,000 people were surveyed, a thousand of whom were kiwis. Dr Dougal Sutherland joined Jack Tame to talk about this new data and offer some tips for businesses who want to proactively address these new priorities. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mike Yardley: Colour and cuisine in Noumea
March 09, 2024 00:54 - 9 minutes - 9.12 MB"Situated on the largest island in the archipelago, Grand Terre, New Caledonia’s bustling capital proudly flaunts its oh là là influence as a French overseas territory, where European chic mingles with laid-back Melanesian charm, set amid coconut palms in the swagger of a sea breeze. If you want a tropical island getaway with a little Parisian panache and the best baguettes in the South Pacific, you’ve come to the right place." Read Mike's full article here. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.co...
Ruud Kleinpaste: Tomatoes till the end
March 09, 2024 00:30 - 3 minutes - 3.2 MBI remember Jack telling me he’d harvested his tomatoes in February and was pleased with the crop. I reckon that —especially in the North— tomatoes can go on and on and on; here in Canterbury they grow well into autumn (April, May) until the frosts start to play havoc. In my tunnel house I carry on harvesting them till June, sometimes July! This is what they look like in February/March: The green tomatoes are still on the plant. These will easily ripen as long as you water and ...
Hannah McQueen: Long-term wealth creation
March 09, 2024 00:28 - 7 minutes - 6.57 MBWith everyone talking about mortgages and interest rates, it's easy to forget that property is just one part of your overall wealth plan and strategy. Hannah McQueen joined Jack Tame for a chat about the considerations people should have towards long-term wealth creation and what homeowners should be preparing for once the housing market has settled again. And, if you're not interested in property, how to choose your investment strategy while the markets are down. LISTEN ABOVE See...
Paul Stenhouse: If you have an Xtra email, you're going to start paying
March 08, 2024 23:23 - 3 minutes - 3.59 MBXtra says there are 260,000 email accounts which will need to start paying. From May 16th, 2024 Xtra Mail will be $9.95 a month, or $5.95 a month if you're a Spark customer with broadband, a monthly mobile plan or a landline (That works out to be $71.40 per mailbox per year, almost $18 million a year for all those customers). So where to from here? What are your options? If you choose to go somewhere else, Xtra says it has a free email forwarding service. Free services are available ...
Stewart Sowman-Lund: Curb Your Enthusiasm, James Must-A-Pic His Mum a Man, The Regime
March 08, 2024 23:00 - 5 minutes - 5.13 MBCurb Your Enthusiasm The final season of the long-running show sees Larry David star as an over-the-top version of himself in this semi-improvised comedy series that shows how seemingly trivial details of day-to-day life can precipitate a catastrophic chain of events. (Neon) James Must-A-Pic His Mum a Man Imagine being tasked with finding your mum the love of her life in front of the nation. That’s exactly what comedian James Mustapic sets out to do in his new show James Must-a-pi...
Guy Pearce: Australian actor on his career and role in 'The Convert'
March 08, 2024 22:39 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBNamed by IndieWire as one of the best actors to have never received an Academy Award nomination, Guy Pearce has had quite the prolific career. The Aussie actor has stared in over 400 episodes of Neighbours, L.A. Confidential, Memento, and The Time Machine, but his breakout role was in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert back in 1994. He’s returning to kiwi cinemas in a week’s time with The Convert, the third collaboration between director Lee Tamahori and producer Robin Sc...
Francesca Rudkin: How To Have Sex, 20 Days in Mariupol
March 08, 2024 21:49 - 8 minutes - 7.64 MBHow To Have Sex Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday - drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives. 20 Days in Mariupol As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities. Quick mention The Oscar’s are on March 11th - we can watch them on Disney+ in NZ. Red carpet 11.30am and ceremony 2pm. ...
Nici Wickes: Stonefruit Crumble
March 08, 2024 21:20 - 4 minutes - 4.05 MBLate season peach or nectarine crumble is just the best! Make these individual fruit crumbles, they’re fabulous! Serves 2 Ingredients 2 large peaches or nectarines, halved, stones removed 1-2 tablespoons golden syrup or maple syrup ¼ cup rolled oats 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 tablespoon plain flour 2 tablespoons butter Small handful of nuts – almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts – chopped Yoghurt, cream and/or ice cream. Method Heat oven to 180 C and grease a small oven...
Kevin Milne: The demise of Fair Go disarms New Zealand
March 08, 2024 20:58 - 7 minutes - 7.3 MBTNVZ announced a raft of cuts yesterday, with nearly 70 members of staff facing the axe and Sunday, Fair Go, Tonight, and Midday all on the chopping block. Kevin Milne was Fair Go's longest serving host, and finds the loss of the show to be a great shame not only personally, but for regular kiwis who will no longer have that weapon available to them. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jack Tame: The news organisation cuts are devastating
March 08, 2024 20:38 - 6 minutes - 5.64 MBIt was an awful day in my household and office yesterday, as TVNZ joined its free-to-air mates at Warner Brothers Discovery in announcing massive cuts to news gathering operations. My wife Mava is a reporter on Sunday, and for many, many years I’ve worked with the teams on Sunday, Fair Go, Tonight, and Midday. They are my colleagues and friends. As anyone in any industry who has gone through a restructure or been made redundant will know, it’s a personally devastating thing to experience. ...
Estelle Clifford: L.A.B - VI
March 02, 2024 01:29 - 5 minutes - 5.1 MBIconic kiwi band L.A.B. has just dropped their latest album ‘VI’. It’s their sixth album in seven years, a total of nine tracks with cruisey summery vibes. They celebrated the album's release with a performance at Electric Avenue in Christchurch. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Catherine Raynes: Lone Wolf and The Wartime Book Club
March 02, 2024 01:17 - 4 minutes - 3.71 MBLone Wolf by Greg Hurwitz Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful men in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis, Evan goes back to t...
Tara Ward: Shōgun, Constellation, The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
March 02, 2024 00:18 - 4 minutes - 4.58 MBShōgun Set in Japan in the year 1600, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village (Disney+). Constellation When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to Earth, only to discover key pieces of her life —including her young daughter— have changed (Apple TV+). The Comple...
Francesca Rudkin: Dune: Part Two and The Great Escaper
March 02, 2024 00:12 - 6 minutes - 6.32 MBDune: Part Two Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the universe, he must prevent a terrible future only he can foresee. The Great Escaper In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for...
Mike Yardley: Golden days in Golden Bay
March 01, 2024 23:35 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB"Remote and wind-blasted Farewell Spit is a sweeping 30km-long sliver of sand that arcs east, buffering Golden Bay from the Tasman Sea. If you’ve never done it before, revel in this singular environment, by hopping onboard a Farewell Spit Eco Tour, for a 6 hour journey of discovery." Read Mike's full article here. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kate Hall: Load shifting and sustainable power
March 01, 2024 23:28 - 6 minutes - 6.4 MBLoad shifting is one of the best things we can do to ensure we are using renewable energy sources instead of non-renewables. But what is load shifting? Load shifting is simply moving power use to different times of the day. Turning large appliances on at off peak times, setting timers, charging EVs overnight etc. Kate Hall joined Jack Tame to discuss the benefits of load shifting and its ability to save kiwis hundreds of dollars a year. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...
Ruud Kleinpaste: Paper wasps and their nests
March 01, 2024 23:17 - 4 minutes - 4.38 MBIn NZ, we have a number of wasp species that can cause a few problems: 1) German Wasps (arrived after WW2) Vespula germanica 2) The Common Wasp (arrived in the 1970-s) Vespula vulgaris Both these two species sting – no sense of humor! They nest in cavities: hollow trees, wall cavities and hollow trunks of trees, in your ceiling or roof space, etc. These wasps are often found eating honeydew in native forests, especially in the South Island. They will also hunt for insects (protei...
Dr Bryan Betty: Middle Ear Infections in Children
March 01, 2024 22:56 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MBWhat is a ‘middle ear’ infection? - One of the most common infections that occur in children. - By school age most children would have had an infection, and it becomes less common as they get older. - An infection of the middle ear: air filled space behind the ear drum, which contains the vibrating bones of the ear we hear with. What do we need to look out for? - Often starts with a cold. - Tube that drains the middle ear to the back of throat becomes blocked. - Middle ear ...
Paul Stenhouse: Facebook is breaking up with news, Apple ditches self-driving car project
March 01, 2024 22:46 - 4 minutes - 4.46 MBFacebook & News are breaking up The "news tab" is no more and Meta is basically trying to get out of the news business altogether. Meta says it will “deprecate” Facebook News in the US and Australia in April and has removed the News tab in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Meta says it will not do any new commercial deals for news and “will not offer new Facebook products specifically for news publishers in the future.” In Australia, the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandato...
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa: Iconic kiwi opera singer on her 80th birthday, family, moving back to NZ, the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation, and performing
March 01, 2024 22:02 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBDame Kiri Te Kanawa has had an eventful life. One of New Zealand’s most prolific performers, the opera singer has performed in countries all over the world in several different languages, receiving a slew of honours over the years. She retired in September 2017, her last performance taking place in October of 2016. Since then, Te Kanawa committed herself to nurturing young artists, sitting as a judge in singing competitions and establishing the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation which supports ...
Kevin Milne: The Government's lacklustre response to Newshub's demise
March 01, 2024 21:01 - 7 minutes - 7.2 MBNew Zealand is losing one of its two TV news organisations as Warner Bros. Discovery pulls the plug on Newshub. Kevin Milne has found the Government's response to be quite lacklustre, given the importance of the third estate to democracy. "NZ is now on it's own and I think that's, in a way, a bit tragic." LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jack Tame: Life with a wedding ring
March 01, 2024 20:21 - 3 minutes - 3.66 MBWe made it. Hurrah. My wife and I celebrated the one-month anniversary of our wedding this week. A meagre milestone relative to many other relationships but a month married is a month married and so far at least, it’s been great. It also means I’ve crossed the one-month threshold for life with a wedding ring. I must admit I was a bit torn at first about whether or not a ring was for me. Like many of his generation, my Dad never wore a ring. When my siblings and I questioned him about i...
Tara Ward: Boiling Point, Feud, The Choir
February 24, 2024 02:25 - 3 minutes - 3.57 MBBoiling Point A new four part British drama that picks up six months after the 2021 movie of the same name, and follows the staff working in a high pressure restaurant (TVNZ+). Feud Capote and the Swans: Tom Hollander, Naomi Watts and Chloe Sevigny star in this American drama about writer Truman Capote’s friendships with a group of high society New York women (Neon). The Choir An uplifting six part documentary series about the Detroit Youth Choir, as the inner city kids practic...
Kate Evans: Kiwi author on her research and book 'Feijoa: A Story of Obsession and Belonging'
February 24, 2024 01:52 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBA highly controversial fruit, feijoas have long held a special place in New Zealand culture. They’ve become a feature of kiwi iconography, their popularity seeing the flavour crop up in the least expected places. Kiwi author Kate Evans thinks of herself as the nerdiest of feijoa nerds, travelling the world and researching the fruit. She’s recently published a book on the subject, ‘Feijoa: A Story of Obsession and Belonging’. Evans told Newstalk ZB’s Jack Tame that her obsession start...
Estelle Clifford: MGMT - Loss of Life
February 24, 2024 01:33 - 6 minutes - 5.77 MBThe fifth studio album from American rock band MGMT, 'Loss of Life' is the band's label debut on Mom + Pop, coming six years after the release of 'Little Dark Age'. The ten track album shifts between genres, Britpop, acoustic folk, power ballads with an 80's flair. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Catherine Raynes: One Day and Moscow X
February 24, 2024 01:16 - 4 minutes - 4.23 MBOne Day by David Nicholls 15th July 1988: Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Moscow X by David McCloskey A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin - its execution is foiled by a Russian woman with secret loyalties. CIA operatives Sia and Max enter Russia to recruit Vladimir Putin's m...
Mike Yardley: Free-roaming Tairāwhiti
February 24, 2024 00:42 - 10 minutes - 9.42 MBIf you're done seeing the sights of Gisborne and are after something a little more outdoorsy, Tairāwhiti is packed with adventures. Mike Yardley joined Jack Tame to run through some of his favourites, including tandem cycling, Tipuna Tours up in Tolaga Bay, and feeding the stingrays down the line at Tatapouri. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dougal Sutherland: Ignoring after-hours work correspondence
February 24, 2024 00:27 - 7 minutes - 7.09 MBIn Australia workers have been given the right to ignore after-hours calls from work, unless it’s in their contract/role requires it or an emergency, following on from some European countries (e.g., France) who have done this. How likely are we to follow suit in NZ? It's unlikely that it will become law – since 2015 Health and Safety at work act neither Labour nor National govts appear to have been interested in putting in any more regulations. However, debate may increase in kiwi workpl...
Ruud Kleinpaste: Psyllids – Exotic and Native
February 23, 2024 23:27 - 5 minutes - 5.44 MBYou may have caught me talking about Psyllids, from time to time. Especially the Tomato-Potato Psyllid. This is an insect that appeared in New Zealand around 2006 and it makes a mess of the two main hosts: Tomatoes and Potatoes. The Tomato-Potato Psyllid. Photo / Supplied As a fanatic tomato grower, I always keep a serious eye out this thing and practice a lot of weed control (Solanum weeds – the overwintering hosts of my crops). I also use regular Neem sprays to stop the Psyllid nymph...
Bob Campbell: Taylors Estate Limestone Coast, Clare Valley Shiraz $20
February 23, 2024 22:57 - 3 minutes - 3.52 MBTaylors Estate Limestone Coast, Clare Valley Shiraz $20 Why I chose it - Hearty red for the months ahead. - Taylor’s produces some of the best value reds in Australia. - Australian wine sales to China, once their biggest wine market, have ground to a halt, resulting in many bargains if you are prepared to shop around. What does it taste like? - Dense, inky red with choc/mocha, cassis, anise/liquorice, vanilla, cigar box and spicy oak. Nicely layered shiraz with obvious cellar...
Paul Stenhouse: AI's real world consequences and the first private spacecraft's moon landing
February 23, 2024 22:13 - 7 minutes - 6.62 MBWe talk a lot about AI and how it might change things, but it's starting to have real world consequences Tyler Perry, who founded the Black Entertainment Television (BET) Network and is a prolific content creator, has said he's stopping plans to open more sound stages. He was due to add 12 sound stages to his Atlanta complex, but advances by OpenAI's video generator Sora has given him pause. Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions. It'...
Francesca Rudkin: The Zone of Interest and The Eternal Memory
February 23, 2024 21:38 - 5 minutes - 5.12 MBThe Zone of Interest Winner of the Grand Prize at Cannes 2023, this historical war drama from filmmaker Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) centres on the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, who strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. The Eternal Memory Chilean couple Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years, but Augusto was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease eight years ago. Both of them fear the day he ...
Nici Wickes' Plum Paste
February 23, 2024 21:33 - 5 minutes - 5.18 MBHave you got a glut of plums like me? This little condiment - plum paste - is easy to make and it goes so well with all manner of cheeses and meats. Ingredients: 1.5kg whole fresh plums, washed (count them into the pot, I used 32 plums – see note) 1 ¼ cups water ½ cup sweet white wine or apple cider vinegar ¼- ½ tsp ground cloves, depending on your taste Sugar, white or raw – likely to be about 600-750g Method: 1. Cook plums with liquids and cloves until very soft and r...
Kevin Milne: Long-lasting music tastes
February 23, 2024 20:51 - 6 minutes - 5.8 MBIt’s often believed that the music you listen to when you’re seventeen or eighteen is what sticks with you throughout your entire life. Kevin Milne recently stumbled across concert programmes from when he was living in London in the 70’s; how much of that has stuck around? LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jack Tame: First year free deserves to go
February 23, 2024 20:35 - 4 minutes - 4.39 MBI never thought the previous government’s fees-free education policy made sense. I’m on the record from the get-go. I didn’t think it was a well-designed or considered policy. At an annual cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, the policy was expensive. I felt there were other priorities. The more cynically minded might even suggest that fast-tracking a fees-free education policy was a decision made with an impending election in mind, rather than the stated educational outcomes. The g...
Ashley Bloomfield: Former Director General of Health on tomorrow's Round the Bays Wellington and the joys of running
February 17, 2024 01:32 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBTomorrow marks the 46th year of Round the Bays Wellington, an iconic community event bringing together people of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate physical activity. Over 10,000 people are expected to take part in one of three distances, Sir Ashley Bloomfield among them. He’s taking part as a Pause Breathe Smile ambassador, which is a free mental health program for primary and intermediate schools. Bloomfield is doing the 5.5km event, telling Newstalk ZB’s Jack Tame that he’s been ...
Estelle Clifford: Jennifer Lopez - This Is Me... Now
February 17, 2024 01:08 - 5 minutes - 5.45 MBJennifer Lopez has dropped her ninth studio album, a sister to her 2003 LP ‘This Is Me... Then’. The genre crossing ‘This Is Me... Now’ is a confessional, a deeply personal insight into her love life and relationship with Ben Affleck. Released alongside was a 65-minute short film, ‘This Is Me... Now: A Love Story’, a high gloss blend of genres and styles to match the tone of the album. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Catherine Raynes: Anna O and The World's Biggest Cash Machine
February 17, 2024 00:36 - 4 minutes - 4.61 MBAnna O by Matthew Blake What if your nightmares weren’t really nightmares at all? We spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what are we capable of, when we sleep? Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive—and hasn’t woken up since. Dubbed “Sleeping Beauty” by the tabloids, Anna’s condition is a rare psychosomatic disorder known to neurologist...
Tara Ward: Criminal Record, Strife, The New Look
February 17, 2024 00:28 - 3 minutes - 3.67 MBCriminal Record In the heart of London, an anonymous phone call draws two brilliant detectives -- a young woman in the early stages of her career and a well-connected man determined to protect his legacy -- into a fight to correct an old miscarriage of justice (AppleTV+). Strife Asher Keddie stars in this Australian drama about a small-time blogger who overcome professional and personal challenges while working towards creating a women-centric website (ThreeNow). The New Look ...
Kate Hall: How to discuss sustainability with your partner
February 17, 2024 00:22 - 7 minutes - 7.28 MBCommunication is key to a healthy relationship, but not all conversations are simple to have. In the changing climate it’s important to be on the same page as your partner when it comes to sustainability, and how you implement it in your lives. But how do we have this conversation? What needs to be covered? Kate ‘Ethically Kate’ Hall joined Jack Tame to give a few tips to ensure that you and your partner can be on the same page. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...
Francesca Rudkin: This Is Me... Now: A Love Story, May December
February 16, 2024 23:15 - 7 minutes - 7.34 MBThis Is Me... Now: A Love Story Jennifer Lopez stars in a highly visual and musical reimagining of her publicly scrutinized love life. May December Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance, a married couple buckle under the pressure when a Hollywood actress meets them to do research for a film about their past. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mike Yardley: Good as Gold in Gisborne
February 16, 2024 22:59 - 9 minutes - 8.75 MB"Gazing across the ravishing seascape, Young Nick’s Head and Mahia Peninsula loomed large on the horizon, while directly beneath us, the photogenic allure of Wainui Beach and Okitu Bush casts you under its spell. It’s immediately self-evident why a beach house at Wainui is the epitome of aspirational real estate. What a sweet spot -no wonder the sun wants to be the first to see it. A year on from the damage and despair of a natural disaster, Gisborne and the Tairāwhiti district’s welcome mat...
Ruud Kleinpaste: Termitical Wood destroyers
February 16, 2024 22:55 - 4 minutes - 4.38 MBAs I was cutting firewood for the 2024 winter, I came across some brilliant tunnels in the timber and larger branches. Drywood Termites. The adults are ready to fly out, mate and make a new home in decaying wood; their wings are gorgeous, slate grey and rather delicate. You’ll find them attracted to lights, landing on the windows in the evening or near the front door. Termites are rather ancient insects. Fossils of termite-like beasts date back some 50 million years, and it looks as ...
Hannah McQueen: Fixing Long or Fixing Short in 2024
February 16, 2024 22:48 - 6 minutes - 6.2 MBHomeowners with a fixed-rate mortgage expiring soon likely perked up when forecasters started suggesting that interest rates could start falling this year. But the Reserve Bank isn't convinced the inflation beast is back in the bag just yet. With conflicting information and no guarantees on when, how far, or how fast interest rates will fall, how can you assess your position and determine the best pathway forward? Hannah discusses strategies on how to proceed when interest rates are sky h...
Paul Stenhouse: 'Odysseus' spacecraft is heading for the moon, Google joins Environmental Defense Fund
February 16, 2024 22:34 - 6 minutes - 6.37 MBA private spacecraft is headed to the moon Launched from Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9, the "Odysseus" will land on the south pole of the moon in search of water. Scientists believe ice exists amongst the rock in both the sunlit and dark sides of the moon, possibly from icy meteorites hitting the moon. If successful, Odysseus will be the first private craft to land on the moon. NASA has funded part of this journey though because it's carrying a range of their scientific instruments, inc...
Nici Wickes: One bowl fruit salad cake
February 16, 2024 21:35 - 4 minutes - 3.99 MBIt’s that time of the year when the stonefruit season collides with the last of the blueberries so I thought I’d marry them up in this gorgeous cake! Ingredients: 3 medium eggs A generous half cup of caster sugar 1/3 cup oil – I used canola! Pinch salt 1 cup fruit – chopped quite small , I used peaches and nectarines 1/3 cup blueberries 1 1/3 cup self raising flour 1/3 cup yoghurt (can use milk see note) Method: Preheat oven to 180 C and line a 20-23cm round cake ...
Kevin Milne: Strangers and documentary memories
February 16, 2024 20:50 - 6 minutes - 5.95 MBIt’s a small world. Kevin Milne was in a café on Thursday and by complete chance, happened to run into someone he made a documentary about 45 years ago. He joined Jack Tame to chat about some of his favourite memories from the making of that doco. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.