Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
Jack 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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Catherine Chidgey is incredibly talented.
The Kiwi author is highly acclaimed, having won the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize, and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction twice.
A theme Chidgey explores in some of her novels is that of "ordinary people who do terrible things", and it's one she explores in her most recent work, '...
A pioneer in the Kiwi music scene is taking his largest tour around the country.
Che Fu is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his 2001 album 'The Navigator', touring New Zealand alongside his band The Kratez and a few special guests.
Chris Schulz joined Jack Tame to discuss the tour.
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Thursday was a special day for Kevin Milne.
His wife Linda loves pigs and won't eat pork, which naturally means Kevin also doesn't eat pork at home.
But Linda was away on Thursday, which means Kevin cooked his annual pork chop.
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Tell Me Something True by Michael Robotham
Arlo Hackett doesn’t expect mercy when he emerges from a twelve-year prison sentence and makes his way back to his home town, Yulara, a waypoint on Australia’s Great Southern Road. The last time Arlo was home, his brother Luke was charged with a terrible crime and Arlo was found guilty by association.
His return to the goldrush town is like cracking open a time cap...
On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday October 10, 2026, Kiwi author Catherine Chidgey has a new novel on the shelves, so she joined us to tell us all about 'The Starving Bride'.
Jack recently found out a product he thought was left in the nineties has come back into vogue.
Claude is now banning rude and abusive behaviour from users; our tech expert Paul Stenhouse weighs in on why.
"If you’re sizing up a great foray on Queensland’s holiday highway, the Pacific Coast Way, it’s not just the mainland that serves up so many temptations. On my recent road-trip between Cairns and Rockhampton, I mixed and matched some overnight stops in Mission Beach, Townsville, Cape Hillsborough, and Yeppoon with some quick and easy jaunts to the Great Barrier Reef.
"The Pacific Coast Way straddles the full lengt...
When people begin to make the shift to more sustainable choices, shopping second-hand becomes a default, but is it always the right option?
Kate Hall looks at the different factors involved in deciding whether or not you should buy something new, second-hand, or if you should buy it at all.
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Spring and summer time is spider time.
If you take the time to look around your garden from now on, you'll find that these useful little helpers are everywhere, taking advantage of the abundance of prey that comes with the warmer days.
Some hunt on foot while others construct a web or a snare; the technology of silk and spatial spider memory is being studied, and they're slowly revealing the most surprising fact...
As political parties consider various wealth taxes, it raises a question: who exactly is in the top 10%?
Ed McKnight runs through how much money you need to have to be considered within the top 10%, both for New Zealand in general, and for your specific age group.
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Starlink is making moves to be a full mobile provider
They've got two big pieces of their puzzle underway this week. The FCC has approved the launch of 15,000 satellites optimized for high-speed internet from space. And now they've announced they're going to acquire frequencies from a company that will allow them to use the frequencies that can penetrate walls, like traditional satellite carriers. That acquisition is expecte...
Big Girls Don't Cry
Over one transformative summer, 14 year-old Sid Bookman discovers desire, identity and the internet, as she imitates the people she longs to be loved by.
Sense and Sensibility
A fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's 1811 novel, centring on the Dashwood sisters as they face sudden poverty and navigate romance, class expectations, and heartbreak.
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Carrie
After her father's sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence (Prime Video).
Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars
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On a recent trip to Italy, I can hand on heart say that my consumption of tiramisu was impressive! It was almost a daily occurrence, usurped only by the frequency of my gelato eating.
Serves 2-4
Ingredients
- 1 cup strong espresso coffee
- 1-2 tbsps. liquor – frangelico, brandy, kahlua (optional)
- 2 large eggs, separated
- 4 tbsps. sugar
- 300g good quality mascarpone (I use Tatua) ...
I don’t know about you, but before we had screens in our pockets to distract us from the screens in our living rooms, I used to find TV infomercials absolutely absorbing.
Actually, I’d go beyond that – some infomercials had a kind of hypnotic quality. You’d change the channel just for a second and then find you’d lost 15 minutes of your life to the Ab King Pro.
I had a couple of fav...
Kevin Milne walks with a bit of a limp.
He's got an arthritic knee, which specialists have advised him not to get replaced just yet, and despite the suggestions of a physio friend, he refuses to use a walking stick.
But why? Kevin joined Jack Tame to chat about why he refuses to use one.
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The line-up for the 2027 Laneway Festival has been announced.
Irish post-punk band Fontaines DC is headlining on the back of a sell-out European arena tour, alongside powerhouse Paramore frontwoman, Hayley Williams.
Also performing are major and growing names like Slayyyter, Adéla, Kim Petras, and Balu Brigada.
Chris Schulz joined Jack Tame to share his thoughts on the line-up.
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"After savouring the Pacific Coast Way’s succulent and scenic delights in North Queensland, I pointed the car south for the 700km ride from Townsville to Yeppoon. The drive time, from point to point, clocks in around 8-9 hours, so you will certainly be keen to slice and dice the trip over several days."
"Two hours south of Townsville, hop off the highway for coastal splendour galore at Bowen. You’ve entered the Whitsund...
Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult
On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.
Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save ...
We’ve been hearing lots about the upcoming El Nino and how this might lead to a hotter summer for us, and how Europe has had massive heatwaves this year. Most of us are aware of the physical dangers of extreme heat, such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
However, researchers are now finding that heat can also affect mental health – with even a small increase in temperature associated with increases in mental health-re...
The legacy of Sir Peter Blake is a lot bigger than many people are aware of. We know him from his yachting around the world: America’s Cup, Whitbread, etc, etc. Wonderful stuff!
My first connection with Peter was via his mother Joyce, who rang me on talkback radio (Newstalk ZB of course) to see if I could help Peter and his sailing team with an outbreak of fleas in the guys’ wetsuits.
A boxful of Permethri...
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