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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Jack Tame: How should we end the protest?
February 18, 2022 20:45 - 5 minutes - 4.71 MBI couldn’t believe it! I finished up on my Saturday radio show, last week. Cycled home. Made some lunch. Refreshed the New Zealand Herald, and whaddaya know? It was like Trevor Mallard had been listening to us all morning. The Speaker of the House was blasting protestors with Barry Manilow and the Macarena. Unbelievable. Apparently I didn’t make it clear enough in my editorial last week. I was JOKING when I suggested they hit protestors with silly music. I was joking. I never for a moment tho...
Estelle Clifford: Mary J. Blige is back with Good Morning Gorgeous
February 11, 2022 23:36 - 5 minutes - 5.21 MBEstelle Clifford gives us her rating of Mary J. Blige's new album, 'Good Morning Gorgeous'. It's the R&B star's first album since 2017. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Catherine Raynes: Becoming Forrest, Violeta
February 11, 2022 22:51 - 4 minutes - 4.5 MBBecoming Forrest – Rob Pope The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the United States. Violeta – Isabel Allende This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...
Mike Yardley: Brews, bites and sights in Ohakune
February 11, 2022 22:40 - 8 minutes - 7.93 MBMike Yardley shares all the brews, bites and sights in Ohakune. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Steven Dromgool: Fighting with friends
February 11, 2022 22:35 - 6 minutes - 6.15 MBRelationship expert Steven Dromgool says friendship is as important as any relationship and needs to be nurtured. It means there will be times you will have to navigate conflict with your mates - how do you do that? LISTENABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ruud Kleinpaste: Green, stinking vegetable bugs
February 11, 2022 22:15 - 2 minutes - 2.76 MBI live a sheltered life! Ever since moving to Christchurch a few insect “pests” have disappeared from my life and my garden: the Passionvine hopper and the Green, stinking vegetable bug (Nezara viridula) This last character is always the one that makes gardeners excited… Just look at my diary notes on talkback callers! Green vegie bugs are sap sucking insects that arrived in NZ a long, long time ago. Their tactics are simple: stick the proboscis into plant material with lots of veins and tran...
Hannah McQueen: Dealing with a financial reckoning
February 11, 2022 22:00 - 6 minutes - 5.6 MBFinance expert Hannah McQueen feels a financial reckoning is on its way. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Paul Stenhouse: Samsung's new phone, Apple's airtags
February 11, 2022 21:51 - 4 minutes - 3.82 MBSamsung's new mobile lineup is out It's the Galaxy S22. There's the regular, plus and new ultra. The ultra replaces the Galaxy Note and still comes with the stylus. It has five cameras - more than I've ever seen on a phone - and configured in a P shape. It's got a crazy 108 Megapixel camera, and a 40 megapixel camera on the front. You're able to control every part of the camera and even get the raw files. All shoot video at 8K. There's an updated portrait mode too, including 'pet portrait'! I...
Tara Ward: Inventing Anna, The Girl Before, Bel-Air
February 11, 2022 21:45 - 5 minutes - 4.73 MBInventing Anna: Inspired by a true story, this American drama follows a journalist investigating the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary heiress who stole the hearts and money of New York elites (Netflix) The Girl Before: An HBO/BBC drama that follows the story of a smart and curious PR exec who gets the chance to move into a beautiful, minimalist home designed by a supremely self-confident and enigmatic architect. Jane must adhere to peculiar house rules as stipulated by David, b...
Bill Browder: Red Notice author on becoming Putin's enemy
February 11, 2022 21:36 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBNot many people can say they’re on the hit list of one the biggest global leaders in the world but Bill Browder can certainly make that claim. He became one of the biggest foreign investors in Russia after the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequently became a target for none other than President Vladmir Putin. Bill wrote the book Red Notice which details his story and his fight to expose the Russian Government’s corruption. Jack Tame catches up with him and asks his thoughts on the lates...
Nici Wickes: When life gives you plums, make plum sauce
February 11, 2022 21:11 - 4 minutes - 4.43 MBPlums. They seem so quintessentially New Zealand to me. Growing up, we had a huge plum tree in our back yard that I would spend many afternoons climbing its lichen-laden branches. Collecting bucket loads of tart and juicy fruit from where they’d fallen was a summer ritual and seeing them turned into cakes, slices, sauces and more was even better. Makes 5-8 medium jars/bottles 3 kg plums, make sure you count how many you put in the pot so you know how many stones to extract! 1 kg brown sug...
Francesca Rudkin: Death on the Nile and Torn
February 11, 2022 21:00 - 7 minutes - 6.75 MBDeath on the Nile Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Torn On Oct. 5, 1999, legendary climber Alex Lowe was tragically lost alongside cameraman and fellow climber David Bridges in an avalanche on the slopes of the Tibetan mountain, Shishapangma. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jack Tame: What should we do with the Parliament protestors?
February 11, 2022 20:36 - 4 minutes - 3.7 MBTrevor Mallard asked for the sprinklers to stay on all night. The protestors are still there on the lawns of parliament. The convoy of angry and presumably damp people, with their tents and their muddled messages. I walked by the fringes of the protest yesterday. One of the men recognised me as a journo and started screaming at me in the street. He looked desperate.. “There weren’t many arrests here!” He said. “You know the truth!” I pitied him. It’s true the protest only constitutes a tiny m...
Kevin Milne: A lesson for us in Sir Peter Jackson on Forbes' big earners list
February 11, 2022 20:36 - 6 minutes - 5.72 MBKevin Milne reflects on sharing a studio with some "crazy" film kids back while filming Fair Go in the late 80s and early 90s. One of those kids turned out to be Sir Peter Jackson, who's just earned a spot on Forbes' biggest earners list. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Estelle Clifford: Bastille's new album
February 04, 2022 23:35 - 4 minutes - 4.14 MBEstelle Clifford has been listening to Bastille's new album, Give Me the Future. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mike Yardley: Heartland Thrills in Selwyn
February 04, 2022 23:10 - 9 minutes - 8.63 MBTravel expert Mike Yardley gives us the lowdown on all the thrills you can find in the south's Selwyn District. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Catherine Raynes: Love Marriage and A Flicker in the Dark
February 04, 2022 23:10 - 3 minutes - 3.6 MBCatherine Raynes has been busy reading Love Marriage by Monica Ali and A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Malcolm Rands: Dog control and kiwis
February 04, 2022 22:56 - 8 minutes - 7.61 MBWe are having a fabulous summer and where I live on the Tutukaka Coast of Northland we get lots of wonderful visitors from all over NZ. And their dogs. Now, we are dog owners and at our eco village we actually have kiwi roaming between the houses at night. Quite noisy actually, always calling for each other. There is a ‘no uncontrolled dog’ policy at the village so it was with quite a lot of trepidation that we finally got a puppy two years ago. We were still four days a week in Auckland a...
Ruud Kleinpaste: Tomato blight
February 04, 2022 22:36 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MBAlways a bit of a bummer when you grow tomatoes: Blight is one of those diseases that can cause a lot of damage and quickly. Two varieties: early blight (Alternaria solani) and late blight (Phytophthora infestans). This last species is a close relative of the famous potato disease that cause massive potato crop losses in Europe, especially Ireland, which led to the horticultural Refugee movement and the run to the New Americas. First of all: “early” and “late” are not sound diagnostic names f...
Bob Campbell: Mount Brown 2021 Pinot Gris
February 04, 2022 22:36 - 2 minutes - 2.17 MBBob Campbell has been making the most of New Zealand Pinot Gris, which he says has never been better! His best buy pick this week is the Mount Brown 2021 Pinot Gris from North Canterbury, for $16 a bottle. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Marcus Daniell: Kiwi tennis player on playing to give
February 04, 2022 22:28 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBDo you remember the moment history was made for New Zealand in tennis at the Tokyo Olympics last year?Marcus Daniell and Michael Venus won the bronze medal in doubles - the first medal in tennis for our country. Marcus is just as successful off the court as on it. The 32-year-old is has recently been named the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year. Previous winners include the likes of Nelson Mandela and Roger Federer. Jack Tame catches up with him. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener ...
Paul Stenhouse: Facebook's big loss
February 04, 2022 22:01 - 3 minutes - 3.38 MBMeta / Facebook now holds the record for the largest single-day loss ever by a US company It said goodbye to $230 billion in value. There are three big reasons why... For the first time, Facebook's daily active users went down by 1 million in North America - which is bad news because Facebook's revenue per user is highest in North America. Basically, the kids don't think it's cool anymore and TikTok is taking people away. But also...Apple's changes to allow users to prevent apps from track...
Tara Ward: Reacher, Rules of the Game, Pam & Tommy
February 04, 2022 21:45 - 5 minutes - 5.21 MBReacher: A must-watch for fans of the Lee Child best-selling novels. This new crime thriller follows Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, who has recently entered civilian life when he is falsely accused of murder (Amazon Prime Video). Rules of the Game: A British drama set in a small family-run business, where a series of historic misconduct cases are unearthed with dramatic consequences (TVNZ OnDemand) Pam and Tommy: Lily James stars in this drama that follows the story...
Nici Wickes: Eggplant, beans & peanut salad
February 04, 2022 21:11 - 4 minutes - 4.38 MBThis salad is full of texture and flavour and it is glorious. The components are cooked separately then thrown together just before serving – YUM. Serves 2-4 2 medium sized eggplants, sliced into 2cm thick rounds 4 tbsps olive oil 2 red capsicums, halved and de-seeded 2 handfuls green beans, chopped and blanched ½ cup roasted peanuts Handful fresh coriander Dressing ½ cup plain, unsweetened yoghurt Lemon juice Juice + zest from half a lemon ¼ cup good quality olive oil Pinch chi...
Francesca Rudkin: Belfast, Mark Hunt: The Fight of His Life, Moonfall
February 04, 2022 21:05 - 8 minutes - 8.04 MBMovie reviewer Francesca Rudkin has been watching Belfast and Moonfall, as well as the documentary on MMA and kickboxing fighter Mark Hunt, called The Fight of his Life. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kevin Milne: How long will I live?
February 04, 2022 20:45 - 6 minutes - 5.68 MBKevin Milne has been dealing with the question of ALL questions this week - how long will I live? He's stumbled upon Statistic New Zealand's calculator that can work out how long you are likely to live. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jack Tame: The end of MIQ, but there's still one big hurdle
February 04, 2022 20:36 - 3 minutes - 3.27 MBFor those of us who live in New Zealand, MIQ has been pretty bloody good. Not perfect, no. But good enough to keep out the worst of the virus for the best part of two years. Of course, for New Zealanders based overseas who’ve wanted to get home, the experience has been pretty different. As New Zealand citizens, most of our opinions have been informed by our own individual experiences. If you’ve been separated from a loved one, or been denied precious moments with new or dying family members, ...
Mike Yardley: Wild about Westport
January 29, 2022 00:11 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBMike Yardley has a tip or two about Westport. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Catherine Raynes: The Good Son, Obama & Springsteen's Renegades
January 29, 2022 00:01 - 4 minutes - 4.42 MBThe Good Son What do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognisable to you? For Thea, the answer is simple and agonising: you keep loving him somehow. Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Belinda, a crime he has no memory of committing. Three years later, he’s released to a world that refuses to let him move on. Renegades RENEGADES: Born in the USA chronicles the conversation Obama and Springsteen began in their popular Spotify podca...
Steven Dromgool: How to have a happy Valentine's
January 28, 2022 23:56 - 7 minutes - 6.62 MBOur relationship expert Steven Dromgool shares his tips on how to have a happy Valentine's Day. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ruud Kleinpaste: Sounds of Summer
January 28, 2022 22:06 - 3 minutes - 3.59 MBWe’re used to specific sounds in the garden; Don’t know what it’s like at your place, but we’ve heard ONE cicada so far in our garden on the Port Hills; Reasons: 3-, 5- or 7-year lifecycles determine the numbers of cicadas out – it you keep a diary you’ll find out that “good years” return 5 years later, when it comes to chorus cicada or “clapping cicada Three years ago, it was bedlam here and on Banks Peninsula, so expect another good year in 2024. Dry soils make it difficult for cicadas...
Paul Stenhouse: Apple's big profit, Twitter shuts down Wordle spoiler
January 28, 2022 21:50 - 3 minutes - 3.68 MBApple's Christmas quarter was quite the gift $124 billion in revenue - that's up 11% on the past year; $35 billion in profit. They've been hit by chip shortages, and have been forced to prioritize giving chips to iPhones over iPads. They also revealed there are 1.8 billion active Apple devices in the world. For comparison, Google says there are over 3 billion Android devices in its Google Play Store ecosystem. Twitter shuts down a Wordle spoiler Wordle - the puzzle game where users are give...
Tara Ward: Trigger Point, The Gilded Age, The Sinner
January 28, 2022 21:45 - 5 minutes - 4.77 MBTrigger Point: Jed Mercuio's new crime thriller that might just fill the Line of Duty hole in your lives. It follows Lana Washington, an experienced bomb disposal officer working for the Metropolitan Police, as she deals with a series of terrorist attacks across London. (TVNZ OnDemand) The Gilded Age: Calling all Downton Abbey fans! Julian Fellows’s new historic drama is set in 1882 America and follows a young woman who moves to New York City to live with her aunts. Exposed to an exciting ne...
The Abundant Gardeners, Niva & Yotam Kay, on gardening for the future
January 28, 2022 21:38 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBNiva and Yotam Kay run Pakaraka Permaculture in Thames on the Coromandel Peninsula. Their mission... Accelerating the transition to a regenerative, organic and just food system. But what exactly is permaculture and how do this pair grow over 10-thousand kgs of food a season on just one-third of an acre of land? Niva and Yotam chat to Jack Tame about getting their hands dirty for future generations. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nici Wickes: Courgette & Raisin Cake
January 28, 2022 21:11 - 5 minutes - 4.66 MBIf you’re a gardener you’ll know that once courgettes start fruiting, they don’t know when to stop and lovely little courgettes can turn into clumsy marrows over lunchtime! So, to use up surplus I urge you to bake this cake – it’s divine. Makes 20cm cake 2 tablespoon fine ground polenta (can use ground almonds) 130g butter, softened 100g sugar 2 eggs 130g flour 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp baking soda 1 cup grated courgette (about 2-3 courgettes, squeeze some of juice out ½ cup raisins ½ cup rip...
Chris Schulz: Spencer and Through the Eyes of Tammy Faye
January 28, 2022 20:55 - 6 minutes - 6.08 MBMovie reviewer Chris Schulz give his hot takes on Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart and American biographical film, Through the Eyes of Tammy Faye. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kevin Milne: Quirky collective nouns
January 28, 2022 20:36 - 5 minutes - 4.95 MBKevin Milne tells Jack Tame that he's found his new favourite collective noun. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jack Tame: How will we handle the surge?
January 28, 2022 20:36 - 4 minutes - 4.23 MBIt was a summer holiday on borrowed time. You’ve gotta admit, it’s pretty remarkable we made it this far without Omicron sweeping through. New Zealand enjoyed Christmas without widespread community transmission. Despite DJ Dimension, we made it through the New Year and most of January. But I think we can all see the end is nigh. It’s quite feasible that by this time next week, our Omicron daily case numbers will be in the thousands. Timing is everything in the Covid-19 response. In December, ...
Mike Yardley: Selwyn's Great Alpine Highway
January 21, 2022 23:36 - 7 minutes - 7.2 MBMike Yardley has got your road trip stops sorted for Selwyn's Great Alpine Highway - the route between Canterbury and the West Coast. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Estelle Clifford: Lime Cordial and actor Idris Elba team up
January 21, 2022 23:36 - 5 minutes - 5.15 MBOur music reviewer Estelle Clifford has been having fun listening to Aussie band Lime Cordiale and British actor Idris Elba's collaborative mini-album, Cordi Elba. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Catherine Raynes: Exit 45 & Anderson Cooper's Vanderbilt's
January 21, 2022 22:46 - 5 minutes - 4.67 MBExit 45 – Ben Sanders Marshall Grade returns in an action-packed thrill ride through the New York underworld. When a former NYPD colleague is shot dead in front of him, private investigator Marshall Grade discovers there's far more to the killing than meets the eye. Vanderbilt’s - Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a l...
Malcolm Rands: Eco-conscious New Years resolutions you can actually keep
January 21, 2022 22:36 - 7 minutes - 6.63 MBOur eco-man Malcolm Rands has been thinking about New Year resolutions you can actually keep that will help our planet: Each New Year many of us make grand resolutions for the coming year. What if these resolutions were actually climate friendly actions that were easy to keep? It’s not all about sacrifice Sometimes we look at the activists that are doing extreme and energy draining activities and although these people need to be applauded, we don’t have to go there. Focus on the impact of you...
Ruud Kleinpaste: Daylight hours and nature
January 21, 2022 22:36 - 4 minutes - 4.1 MBSince we started summer (solstice on the longest day of 21st of December, last year) we’ve basically “turned the corner”. The “longest day” was not really the longest day here in Christchurch (but a few days later), but the point is that from now on our days are getting shorter – very slowly. Once we get to mid-to-late February the shortening will speed up and reach its fastest downhill trend of the year… This website shows that in nice little, interactive graphs – I love that stuff! Why b...
Hannah McQueen: Inflation a big issue this year
January 21, 2022 22:06 - 4 minutes - 4.2 MBFinance expert Hannah McQueen says to strap in as inflation is going to be a big issue this year. It’s currently sitting at almost five percent and the signs are indicating it’s going to go higher still when the next lot of figures are released next week. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Paul Stenhouse: Free home-order Covid tests, Netflix being naughty
January 21, 2022 21:56 - 5 minutes - 4.73 MBOrdering free COVID tests was a breeze The US Government is offering four free at-home COVID tests to each residence and ordering them was super simple - I'd probably describe it as one of the best interactions I've ever had with a government service. To make it happen they tapped the resources of the US Postal Service. The page was effectively a checkout page, with the product already selected, the price very clearly shown as free. You just needed to add your name and address and press subm...
Tara Ward: Under the Vines, Bloom and Stay Close
January 21, 2022 21:45 - 6 minutes - 6.11 MBUnder the Vines: a charming new romantic drama about a Sydney socialite (Rebecca Gibney) and London lawyer (The Crown’s Charles Edwards) who mutually inherit a run-down vineyard in New Zealand (Wednesdays on TVNZ 1 and TVNZ OnDemand). Bloom: An Australian fantasy drama starring Bryan Brown and Jacki Weaver. A year after a devastating country flood kills five people, a new plant is discovered with the power to restore youth. This is a miracle for locals but some are prepared to kill for it (b...
Matthew Vaughn: Hollywood director new film on The King's Man
January 21, 2022 21:36 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBMatthew Vaughn is a renowned Hollywood director and producer with a portfolio chocka full of cracker films such as Rocketman, Kick-Ass and the comedy classic, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He’s also directed and written the King’s Men series, which stars Ralph Fiennes and Colin Firth. A third installment has just been released called The King’s Man. Matthew Vaughn speaks to Francesca Rudkin about his love of being involved in the King's Men series. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/l...
Chris Schulz: House of Gucci and Scream 5
January 21, 2022 21:17 - 6 minutes - 6.39 MBMovie reviewer Chris Schulz speaks to Francesca Rudkin about the House of Gucci film and another Scream installment. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Francesca Rudkin: What a glorious summer it’s been
January 21, 2022 20:46 - 3 minutes - 3.53 MBThe weather has been wonderfully settled for months – I’ll remember it as cloudless blue skies and 27 every day, regardless of what weather forecasters predicted, and even when it wasn’t. Traveling around the North Island over the Christmas and New Year, I noticed a relaxed Kiwi summer vibe. Maybe it was the exhilaration of being able to leave home towns and visit family and friends, maybe it was the relief another difficult year had ended – but there was a distinct feeling people were enjoyi...
Kevin Milne: Let's talk about the weather
January 21, 2022 20:36 - 4 minutes - 3.77 MBKevin Milne speaks to Francesca Rudkin about the hot weather over the summer break - and why that's not necessarily a good thing. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.