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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Paul Stenhouse: Tech tips for working from home
March 21, 2020 00:27 - 5 minutes - 2.19 MBVideo conferencing tipsIf you're now using Zoom and don't like looking at yourself and every blemish on your calls, you can fix that! You can use the "touch up my appearance" feature found in the video settings to smooth out your skin a little, and get rid of flyaway hairs.If you don't want your colleagues seeing your house, then you can change or blur the background.On Zoom, like a weather screen, you can change the background to an image you upload. So you can do a call from the moon, or th...
Dr Emma Woodward: Talking to kids about Covid-19
March 20, 2020 23:46 - 8 minutes - 3.24 MBChild Psychologist Dr Emma Woodward has been giving Jack some tips on how to talk to your kids about Covid. 1. Look after yourselfBecause prolonged stress decreases our immunity, make sure you are being healthy in your choices and making space for you to feel OK too. For example; give yourself a limit to how much you check the news for updates – once or twice a day is fine (our smartphone addictions aren’t helping us or our children) and talk through your worries with another adult to air th...
Book review: A Good Neighbourhood and The Yellow Bird Sings
March 20, 2020 23:23 - 5 minutes - 2.13 MBA Good Neighbourhood - Teresa Anne Fowler In Oak Knoll, a tight-knit North Carolina neighbourhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. All is well until the Whitmans move in next door - an apparently traditional family with new money, ambition, and a secretly troubled teenage daughter. With little in common except a property line, these two very different families quickly find themselves at odds over an historic oak tree in Va...
Screentime: Letter for the King, The Test and 20 Years of the Naked Chef
March 20, 2020 22:43 - 5 minutes - 2.07 MBLooking for a new TV show to watch? Tara Ward joined Jack Tame this morning to reveal the best shows on TV this week! Letter for the King: Netflix’s new medieval fantasy series was filmed in New Zealand, and follows a young man as he trains to become a knight and travels across several countries to deliver an important letter to the King. The Test: A New Era for Australia’s Cricket Team: if you’re missing sports on the telly, check out this new fly-on-the-wall documentary series about the Au...
Wine with Bob Campbell: Villa Maria 2018 Merlot
March 20, 2020 22:33 - 3 minutes - 1.44 MBThis week, Bob's reviewing Villa Maria 2018 Cellar Selection Merlot.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Film review: Invisible Man and Les Miserables
March 20, 2020 22:18 - 7 minutes - 3.16 MBFrancesca is reviewing the Invisible Man, and Les Miserables. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Jack Tame: We're all in this together
March 20, 2020 21:50 - 4 minutes - 1.95 MBI miss the human touch. I know that’s maybe a weird thing to say. After all, I live alone. I don’t have kids. And I’m not the world’s most touchy-feely person at the best of times. So I’m hardly doing a whole lot of touching. But yeah. I suppose you only realise how much you take something for granted, when you can’t do it. Do you ever do that when you have pain? A sprained ankle? A crook in your back? You promise yourself... when I’m fit and healthy and I’m back going about my normal day-to...
Nici Wickes: Chilli Cabbage
March 20, 2020 21:27 - 5 minutes - 2.05 MBChilli Cabbage Here’s a beautiful dish that is full of flavour and the all-important fibre. 3-4 rashers bacon 1 small head green cabbage 1-2 tbsps butter 1 red chilli, de-seeded and sliced thinly 1 ½ tsps salt ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper ¼ cup cream or dollop of sour cream Dice bacon and saute in a pan. Cut the cabbage in half and, with the cut-side down, slice it as thinly as possible, discarding the core. Add butter to bacon and add in the shredded cabbage, chilli, salt and peppe...
Kevin Milne: Leaving the marital bed
March 20, 2020 21:23 - 5 minutes - 2.36 MBFormer broadcaster Kevin Milne is facing a future seperate from his wife, as he self-isolates amidst the coronavirus outbreak. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Catherine Raynes: Book picks (1)
March 13, 2020 23:22 - 4 minutes - 1.94 MBThe Holdout Graham Moore It’s the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school, and her teacher, Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect. The subsequent trial taps straight into America’s most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex, law enforcement, and the lurid sins of the rich and famous. It’s an open-and-shut case for the prosecution, and ...
Andrew Dickens: Nadia Reid's third album
March 13, 2020 23:21 - 4 minutes - 1.85 MBMusic Reviewer Andrew Dickens has been listening to Nadia Reid's third alum, Out of my Province. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Hannah McQueen: How coronavirus could hit your finances
March 13, 2020 22:58 - 6 minutes - 2.55 MBEnable Me's Hannah McQueen's been giving Jack Tame some advice for what to do if Coronavirus hits you in the pocket. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Mike Yardley: Louisiana's Great River Road
March 13, 2020 22:49 - 8 minutes - 3.28 MBMike Yardley's been travelling Louisiana's Great River Road. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Malcolm Rands: How Coronavirus is slowing climate change
March 13, 2020 22:31 - 6 minutes - 2.77 MBMalcolm Rands has been looking at how the current Coronavirus Pandemic could have an impact on climate change. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Ruud Kleinpaste: Fighting powdery mildew
March 13, 2020 22:15 - 3 minutes - 1.23 MBPowdery Mildew lurking in the gardenWhite powdery fungal deposits on leaves of cucumbers, pumpkin, squash, oak trees, hydrangeas, beans, grapes, apples, pears, rose – it’s on a lot of different plants. It can be caused by long-term moisture on surfaces of leaves/plants, or a dry spell followed by relative humidity and dew. For instance: when you have warm days and cool nights, you get dew, like in spring and autumn.Often plants are starting to decline towards autumn – readying for winter etc...
Paul Stenhouse: Technology vs Coronavirus
March 13, 2020 21:57 - 3 minutes - 1.41 MBUsing technology to fight Coronavirus You're allowed to clean your iPhone Apple has made it official.. you can clean your iPhone's screen with an anti-bacterial wipe because boy oh boy are they dirt traps. You can also clean your keyboard and mouse too. If you have anti-bacterial spray, you'll want to spray it onto the cloth first rather than directly onto the device. Do not use bleach though! Be gentle as you do it and be careful not to get moisture into the speaker on the front, or into th...
Lisa Tamati: Ultra-marathon runner to brain injury expert
March 13, 2020 21:51 - 15 minutes - 6.35 MBIt’s hard to imagine there’s anything that extreme endurance athlete Lisa Tamati would struggle with. She’s made a career out of running ludicrous distances, completing over 140 ultra-marathons, from Death Valley through to Himalayan alps. But then her mother suffered a huge aneurysm and stroke and was left with massive brain damage. Lisa turned all her fighting strength to helping her Mum, with miraculous results. She’s written a book about the journey, "Relentless", and she's been s...
Tara Ward: Screentime (3)
March 13, 2020 21:44 - 5 minutes - 2.02 MBThe English Game: It's Downton Abbey, but with football. Julian Fellowes’ new period drama is set in 19th century England, and tells the story of how football reached across the class divide to establish itself as the world's most popular sport (Netflix, from Friday 20 March). The Plot Against America: Starring Winona Ryder, this miniseries presents an alternate American history, told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an ...
Nici Wickes: Slow-roasted herbed lamb leg
March 13, 2020 21:27 - 4 minutes - 1.83 MBSlow-roasted herbed lamb leg I love the way these ingredients all tumble into one big pan of rich flavour and meltingly tender meat. Perfect for a crowd. 1.5 – 2kg leg lamb, bone in (get the butcher to cleaver the bone so it fits in a dish easily)400g can crushed tomatoesSmall handful fresh herbs – rosemary, oregano, marjoram, thyme 4 cloves garlic, crushedJuice from two lemons (or 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar) ¼ cup olive oil2 tsps sea salt½ cup water or red wine. Preheat the oven to 1...
Kevin Milne: Shops should shut on Sundays
March 13, 2020 21:22 - 6 minutes - 2.56 MBKevin Milne's impressed by a Wellington business shutting its doors on Sundays, to give staff time with family.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Jack Tame: We should be worried about Covid-19
March 13, 2020 21:15 - 4 minutes - 1.78 MBLast night I watched maybe the most surreal cricket game of my life. The Black Caps bombed so that wasn’t an entirely new experience. It was at the SCG. Not a sausage, not a soul, not a single fan in sight. Of course the cricket is hardly alone. Sports games, concerts, large gatherings are being called off all over the place, and as many countries dramatically step-up their response to covid-19, the sense that here in New Zealand we’re on the cusp of something really significant, grows strong...
Steven Dromgool: When work and home collide
March 07, 2020 00:42 - 10 minutes - 9.53 MBRelationship expert Steven Dromgool has been looking at how to cope when you work with your partner. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Creed Bratton: How I became a character on The Office
March 07, 2020 00:29 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBIf you're a fan of The Office, and you’ll know all about the character Creed Bratton.But what you might not know, is the character Creed Bratton, is based on the loosely based actual Creed Bratton. A well-known folk musician, part of the band Grass Roots. Creed Bratton is coming to New Zealand for two variety shows this June, Wellington on June 2 and in Auckland on June 3. He joined Jack Tame this morning to preview the tour. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Bob Campbell: Alcohol-free wine worth drinking
March 07, 2020 00:19 - 4 minutes - 4.36 MBBob's been drinking 2019 Giesen 0% Sauvignon Blanc. Listen to what he thought about the wine, in his chat with Jack Tame. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Music review: Robinson's new EP
March 06, 2020 23:38 - 6 minutes - 6.28 MBNelson-born musician Robinson has just released her new EP - Andrew Dickens has been giving his thoughts on the tracks to Jack Tame. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Book review: The Guest List and You Are Not Alone
March 06, 2020 23:34 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MBCatherine Raynes has been reviewing The Guest List by Lucy Foley and You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pakenham. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Mike Yardley: Travelling to countries with Coronavirus
March 06, 2020 22:50 - 8 minutes - 7.93 MBMike Yardley's been giving Jack Tame all the tips for anyone worried about upcoming travels. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Ruud Kleinpaste: Why we should all be gardening
March 06, 2020 22:45 - 4 minutes - 3.77 MBWhy we should all be gardeningIt's not just about the way your garden looks! Ruud has been coming up with a list of other reasons you should get into the garden: Self esteemHeart Health It reduces stressCreates Happiness - with a soil bacterium Mycobacterium vaccaeBetter Sleep Family Health in the soil - reduced auto-immune diseases and allergiesImproved Hand strengthIt helps some people cope with arthitis. Gardening movement is seriously helping me and other afflicted people. LISTEN TO AUDIO...
Paul Stenhouse: Want to visit the International Space Station?
March 06, 2020 22:43 - 4 minutes - 3.72 MBFirst there was a Tweet.. now there's a "fleet"? A fleet is a tweet that's available for a fleeting moment, well 24 hours. Twitter wants people to tweet the things that might usually be sent to draft. The things on the tip of their tongue, or the things that pop into your head. People are more cautious now with what they Tweet because they know it's headed to their archive. Fleets can't be retweeted, they don't have likes and people can only reply to the sender via a Direct Message. They CAN...
Screentime: We Are One, My Brilliant Friend and Breeders
March 06, 2020 22:35 - 4 minutes - 4.29 MBLooking for a new TV show to watch? Tara Ward joined Jack Tame this morning to reveal the best shows on TV this week! We Are One: The Mosque Attacks One Year On: the lives of the Muslim community in Christchurch were forever changed by the attacks of the 15th of March. As the first anniversary approaches, this documentary special follows six of these families through their first year as their lives find their new pattern. As their physical wounds heal, how are they handling the emotional, me...
Nici Wickes: Salted Caramel Baked Apples
March 06, 2020 22:14 - 4 minutes - 3.7 MBSalted Caramel Baked Apples Take baked apples to the next level – loads more sauce, big pieces of walnuts and using a sweeter, red apple, instead of the usual granny smith makes these so good! Serves 4-6 3-4 large apples, halved through waist, cored ½ cup brown sugar, firmly packed 25g butter, melted 3 tbsps water 1 tsp sea salt ½ cup walnuts To serve: sour cream or crème fraiche Preheat oven to 180 C. In an oven dish place sugar, butter, water and salt. Stir to mix. Set apples in di...
Film review: Dark Waters and The Way Back
March 06, 2020 21:55 - 8 minutes - 7.68 MBFilm reviewer Francesca Rudkin has been reviewing Dark Waters and The Way Back. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Kevin Milne: How I beat the car thieves
March 06, 2020 21:49 - 6 minutes - 5.71 MBKevin Milne had his car stolen this week. He joined Jack Tame to explain how he got it back.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Jack Tame: Plenty to learn from Jeanette Fitzsimons
March 06, 2020 21:46 - 3 minutes - 3.28 MBWhen I was 12 years old, my school arranged for our local MPs to each visit our class. I remember David Carter coming and speaking to us. I remember Ruth Dyson doing the same thing. And last but not least, Rod Donald came and spoke to Room 22 at St Martins School. I can’t tell you what any of them said. I don’t know if I could have distinguished at that time what each of them stood for, but I remember looking out the window at the end of the class and seeing Rod Donald push off down the stre...
Paul Stenhouse: Gmail inbox changes, Spotify and Jeff Bezos
February 29, 2020 01:50 - 3 minutes - 1.43 MBThere's a new way you can view your Gmail inbox The way we view our email has been basically the same since we got our first address.. the newest emails go at the top and they go backwards. Well is that really the best way? What about people at work who use their inbox like a to-do list? A startp has re-invented Gmail's interface using a Chrome extension. It's a mix of Gmail and Trello. It's called Drag - www.dragapp.com. + You can drag and drop your emails into an order you choose.. + You ca...
Brynley Stent and Lana Walters: Billy T Award finalists prepare for upcoming comedy festivals
February 29, 2020 01:13 - 13 minutes - 5.34 MBLast night, a group of fresh young comedians began their campaigns to take out one of the most coveted prizes in New Zealand comedy, the 2020 Billy T Awards. The annual prize celebrates the memory and achievements of legendary Kiwi comic, Billy T James. This year’s finalists are Brynley Stent, James Mustapic, Ray O’Leary, Josh Davies and Lana Walters. Lana and Brynley are super busy at the moment doing international comedy festival shows and the Auckland Fringe Show “Lust Island” but they...
Ruud Kleinpaste: Little Barrier Island is a paradise
February 29, 2020 00:53 - 5 minutes - 2.02 MBGardening contributor Ruud Kleinpaste joins Jack Tame, listen above! Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) has had relatively little modification in the past 1000 years or so; the only introduced animals of great concern were kiore (pacific rice rats), domestic cats and German wasps. No doubt these wasps got there on their own steam, flying across the sea from the mainland. The cats (which arrived in the 1870s) were trapped and removed from the island between 1977 and 1980; Dick Veitch was leading ...
Book review: The Janes and Dear Life
February 28, 2020 23:37 - 4 minutes - 1.71 MBThis week, Catherine Raynes reviews two new exciting books for you to read. The Janes by Louisa Luna The electric follow-up to Louisa Luna’s acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down, featuring private investigators Alice Vega and Max Caplan. On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, and no family looking for them. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, the police and FBI reach out to Alice Vega, a private investigator know...
Malcolm Rands: Getting your organic garden ready for spring
February 28, 2020 23:23 - 8 minutes - 3.24 MBEcoman Malcolm Rands shares his tips with Jack Tame, listen above! Water and feed and weed then mulch, which is extra important now with the drought over much of NZ. Feed seaweed and fish liquid fertilisers. Stopping competition and trapping the water in give extra health benefits to your plants so you wont have to reach for the chemical spray can. Harvest and save with bumper crops coming in now. Wash cut and freeze. If you have the time and inclination, then old fashioned bottling works too...
Hannah McQueen: Advice for tonight's lucky lotto winner!
February 28, 2020 22:49 - 6 minutes - 2.57 MBEnableMe director Hannah McQueen has had a number of Lotto winners, so can talk about what they usually do, what mistakes they makE and what you could do right from the beginning if you’re the lucky winner. LISTEN ABOVE
Screentime: Deadwater Fell, I Am Not Okay With This and Mad About You
February 28, 2020 22:14 - 4 minutes - 1.77 MBLooking for a new TV show to watch? Tara Ward joined Jack Tame this morning to reveal the best shows on TV this week! Deadwater Fell: a Scottish crime drama starring David Tennant, about a seemingly perfect and happy family that is murdered by someone they knew and trusted and cracks appear on the surface of a supposedly idyllic community (Monday, TVNZ OnDemand). I Am Not Okay With This: A Netflix Original comedy-drama follows teenager Sydney, as she navigating the trials and tribulations of ...
Nici Wickes: How to minimise food waste
February 28, 2020 21:39 - 5 minutes - 11.7 MBNici Wickes is doing a big gig this week with an organisation called Fair Food who collect and redistribute ‘waste food’. She will be making breakfast from recovered food for 100 people in support of this mission. Some of the most common food that households waste are bread, bananas and milk. Nici shares some ways we can we can do with this instead of throwing it out; breadcrumbs, banana jam, puddings, smoothies are some options. LISTEN ABOVE
Film review: The Current War and Mr. Jones
February 28, 2020 21:23 - 7 minutes - 18.1 MBEvery Saturday morning, movie critic Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to take a look at what is playing at the movies this weekend. The Current War Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse, THE CURRENT WAR is the epic story of the cutthroat competition between the greatest inventors of the industrial age over whose electrical system would power the new century. Backed by J.P. Morgan, Edison dazzles the world by lighting Manhattan. But Westingho...
Kevin Milne: Why doesn't NZ celebrate Fat Tuesday?
February 28, 2020 21:01 - 5 minutes - 2.04 MBFormer broadcaster Kevin Milne joins Jack Tame to talk about Fat Tuesday, otherwise known around the world as Pancake Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, or Mardi Gras. Kevin asks the question, given it’s an opportunity to have fun and scoff ourselves, why has it never been celebrated in NZ? LISTEN ABOVE
Jack Tame: Being prepared for an emergency
February 28, 2020 20:47 - 4 minutes - 9.32 MBIt now seems so stupid, but when I was a kid, everyone in my family used to tease my Mum about the emergency supplies she kept at our house. There was water, canned food, some other bits and pieces that would perish too quickly, and I remember we’d wind her up about stocking for the end of the World. What do you know that we don’t, Mum? Then the earthquake happened. My point is, yes, it is good to be prepared. I keep a bit of water at home, some torches, a few emergency supplies. But this mor...
International pop sensation MIKA arrives in Auckland
February 22, 2020 00:51 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBInternational pop sensation MIKA is currently in Auckland for his first ever show on our shores. He is a judge on The Voice in both France and Italy. The British singer has released his fifth studio album, My Name Is Michael Holbrook. MIKA joined Jack Tame this morning on the show. LISTEN TO THE AUDIO ABOVE
Music review: Tame Impala’s new album
February 22, 2020 00:39 - 5 minutes - 5.12 MBAndrew Dickens has been reviewing Tame Impala’s new album. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Dr Bryn: What's wrong with Elton John?
February 22, 2020 00:20 - 4 minutes - 3.75 MBOne of the big stories of the week has been Elton John's concert dramas - because he's got 'walking pneumonia'. Dr Bryn's been explaining what that actually is. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Steven Dromgool: Dealing with a toxic ex
February 21, 2020 23:45 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBRelationship expert Steven Dromgool's got some tips if you're dealing with a toxic ex. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE
Paul Stenhouse: Podcasts made easy
February 21, 2020 23:34 - 4 minutes - 3.97 MBMicrosoft has revamped its Office App It's combined the Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint apps into one super app to make it easier to edit your docs on the go. It has all the same features - so you can snap pictures of tables and have them appear in Excel, search OneDrive for docs and edit them, scan PDFs are more. Some new goodies are coming soon.. - Card Views of your excel spreadsheets to make it easier to edit records - Outline view for getting your ideas into powerpoint super fast A...