Tara Ward: Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, Friends Like Her, High Potential

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth   

Dr. Jim Swire searches for justice following the death of his daughter Flora in one of the worst air disasters in history: the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. On December 21, 1988, 259 passengers and crew, as well as 11 residents on the ground, were killed when a plane exploded over the quiet town of Lockerbie, Scotland. Thirteen years later, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the crime and later released on compassionate grounds.  

In the wake of Flora's death, Jim is named head of the UK victims' group and, after years of relentless campaigning, becomes instrumental in bringing Megrahi to trial. However, Jim's absolute trust in the justice system is sullied forever when he comes to believe, to his horror, that Megrahi could be innocent. As the truth shifts under Jim's feet, his life starts to crumble, losing his job and ignoring his living family for this crusade for truth and his desire to find those responsible for her death (TVNZ+ and TVNZ1 from Sunday). 

 

Friends Like Her   

In the wake of a catastrophic earthquake, a friendship between two women in Kaikoura turns toxic when a surrogacy deal goes wrong (Netflix). 

 

High Potential   

Morgan, a single mom with three kids and an exceptional mind, helps solve an unsolvable crime when she rearranges some evidence during her shift as a cleaner for the police department. When they discover she has a knack for putting things in order because of her high intellectual potential, she is brought on as a consultant to work with a by-the-book seasoned detective, Karadec. Together they form an unusual and unstoppable team (Disney+). 

 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Twenty five, US ten on News Talk ZEDB. Tara Awards
our screen Time Expert screen Time Time for your Saturday.
Hey Tara, Oh, hello Tara, Good morning Jat. You got
three shows for us this morning. Let's start off with
the new one. Starr In Colin Firth is on TV
and Z Plus TV and Z one from tomorrow, tell

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us about Lockerbee's search for a truth.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Here.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
This is a new British drama about the Lockerby playing
disaster in December nineteen eighty eight, when a pan Am
flight from London to New York exploded midia over the
small Scottish town of Lockerby. And as You Say It
stars Colin Firth who plays the real life father of
one of the passengers who died. He plays Dr Jim Swire,
who was an English GP and when his daughter Flora

(00:59):
was killed, Jim became obsessed with finding out what really
happened and spent the next few decades up with journalists
and lobby and governments. And he was unrelenting and persistent
about uncovering the truth about who was responsible for the
bombing and went to some extraordinary lengths to get those answers,
and the drama captures all those details. It's a pretty

(01:21):
extraordinary story and it's told from Jim Swire's perspective, so
it's inspired by his own research. Colin Firth is very
good in this as the grieving father who just becomes
obsessed with getting justice. If the story does interest you,
there's also a good documentary series on Netflix called on
Neon called Lockerby that features the real Jim Swire, which

(01:42):
will give you a bit more real life background, but
the drama itself is a very compelling story that gives
a human insight into what is a really terrible tragedy.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, yeah, this sounds really interesting. Okay, Lockerby Search for Truth.
So that's on TVNZ one tomorrow and on TVNZ plus
of course on Netflix. You've seen Friends Like Her. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Friends Like Her is a new Zealand drama that came
out early last year on three but it's just shifted
over to Netflix and is getting a brand new audience
both here and in Australia, which is why I wanted
to mention it again today because it's such a great
local drama. And if you missed it the first time
around on three, it's definitely worth catching on Netflix. This
is written by novelist Sarah Kate Lynch. It's a family

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drama that turns into a thriller as it goes along,
and it's set in Caykolda after the twenty sixteen earthquake.
It stars MORGANA O'Reilly and Tess Halbrich. They play sisters
in law Nicole and Tess, and when the show begins,
Nicole is having a surrogate pregnancy for tests, but the
agreement between them goes wrong. Nicole wants to keep the

(02:46):
baby and it destroys the family. And they have this
secret in their past, these two women that they're both
desperate to keep hidden. But things start to snowball and
the secrets start to rise to the surface. And it's
all taking place in a community that has been damaged
and fractured physically and emotionally by the earthquake. And the

(03:07):
show really captures that feeling of small town New Zealand
where everyone knows everyone else's business. It's just a show
with great performances, well written, fantastic cast. You know, it's
a whole package and I'm so pleased that it's getting
out to a new audience on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh so good. Oh it's really good to see it
up there. I thank you that friends like her on
Netflix and on Disney Plus High Potential.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, this is a new American crime drama. And if
you're a fan of shows like Monk or Matt Locke,
I think you're like this as well. It's a classic
fish out of water story and it's about a single
mother called Morgan who is raising three children. She works
at night as a cleaner at the local police station,
and she has this amazing brain, which means she processes

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information differently and sees things that other people don't. And
she starts to solve these crimes in the office at night,
much to the annoyance of their detectives. And Morgan is
so good at it that they reluctantly have to start
bringing her in on their tricky cases, except that you know,
she's not a trained detective. She's a straight shooting, fast
talking heart of gold, single mum who doesn't really follow

(04:16):
the rules, which leads to a lot of chaos. It
is all a bit ridiculous, but I also thought it
was a bit of fun that you shouldn't take too seriously.
It stars Caitlin Olsen from Hacks, who holds the show
together beautifully.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
You know.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
It's far fetched, but it's also light and quirky and
there's a lot of charm. It's one of those formulaic
crime of the week kind of dramas. But it's a
really fun, easy.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Watch, a nice okay, cool that's high potential. It's on
Disney Plus. Friends Like Her is the Keiwi drama that's
on Netflix, sit and Kaikder and Lockerb. Search for a
Truth is on TV and ZED one and TV and
Z plus. All the details for those shows, of course,
on the news Doorg ZEDB website.

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