Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Arthur the King  

Desperate for one last chance to win, Michael Light convinces a sponsor to back him and a team of athletes for the Adventure Racing World Championship in the Dominican Republic. As the team gets pushed to the outer limits of endurance, a dog named Arthur comes along for the ride, redefining what victory, loyalty and friendship truly means. 

Dream Scenario  

A fami...

On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 18 May 2024, award-winning Australian comedian Rhys Nicholson has crossed the ditch to bring their charm and wittiness to the NZ International Comedy Festival. 

This week, Jack experienced tragedy with a shocking tree pruning.  

Tara Ward spills on Bridgerton's latest serving of high society seduction and scandal in Screentime, w...

Workplace bullying has come with a high price tag. 

It’s estimated that it costs New Zealand around $1.5 billion a year, 50% of the costs arising from the impact on female workers. 

Dougal Sutherland told Jack Tame that the report should really slap organisations and businesses around the head, as it demonstrates the sheer extent of the problem. 

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An ARIA award winning comedian and judge on Ru Paul’s Drag Race Down Under, Rhys Nicholson is quite the entertainer. 

They’ve brought their wittiness, charm, and laughs across the ditch this week as part of the NZ International Comedy Festival. 

Last night saw them delight Auckland crowds, and this morning Nicholson joined Jack Tame to discuss their career, Drag Race, and the Comedy Festival.

Ever since moving to Christchurch I have been trapping pests: stoats and possums, rats and mice. Think Predator-Free New Zealand! 

Mice are quite common here on the Port Hills; rather rural with heaps of herbage, seeds, and grasses, plus good seed crops in the gardens. 

Mice are an important food source for rats and stoats. They also eat heaps of Native New Zealand Invertebrates (caterpillars, beet...

Wine: Neudorf 2023 Tiritiri Chardonnay, Nelson $29 

Why I chose it: 

- Terrific Chardonnay, like a good French Chablis 

- Neudorf is one of the country’s top chardonnay producers 

- NZ is a top Chardonnay producer 

- 2014 Neudorf Moutere Chardonnay – 100 pts 

What does it taste like? 

Taut, vibrant chardonnay with pronounced oyst...

Everything you know about Google Search is about to change 

Google’s famous ten blue links will be replaced in the USA thanks to AI. Forget typing in keywords, Google now wants you to ask it questions and it will give you answers. No more links, but paragraphs of answers. "AI overviews" will appear when the technology determines it's the fastest way to answer a user.  

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NZ First has introduced a new bill that would fine those who do not use the public bathroom of their designated sex. 

Winston Peters announced the bill to ensure all non-domestic public locations have “clearly signed unisex and single-sex bathrooms. 

Kevin Milne thinks the only positive of the bill is that it won't become law, but has some alternatives he thinks could be adopted instead. 

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NZ oranges are some of the best in the world, I think! Gisborne and Kerikeri produce the finest citrus and this cake is one to really highlight them. It's a simple cake but is so versatile. It makes a decent tea cake or serve it warm with custard and cream for a dessert. 

Serves 6-8 

Ingredients 

1 large orange, chopped roughly, skin and all 

1 ½ cups sugar 

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It was my fault.  

One of those things that came about because of whole lot of factors, but which can ultimately be boiled down to doing too much at once. Work, family, life. I was too stretched. Too stressed. And something gave.  

But why did it have to be the trees? 

This will sound really crazy, but I only realised afterwards that maybe the single-biggest reason I bought my home, w...

Yesterday saw the release of Jordan Rakei’s fifth studio album The Loop, an album he’s wanted to make since he was 19. 

He took his 35 acoustic demos and refined them down to 13 tracks, recorded over two “action-packed” weeks with an orchestra, choir, and band.  

Rakei says it’s his most ambitious project to date, inspired by becoming a father. 

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Five Bad Deeds by Caz Frear  

Teacher, mother, wife, and all-around good citizen Ellen is juggling nonstop commitments, from raising a teen and two toddlers to job-hunting to finally renovating her dream home, the Meadowhouse. Amidst the chaos, an ominous note arrives in the mail, People have to learn there are consequences, Ellen. And I’m going to teach you that lesson. Right under your nose.

Allium Rust on garlic has become quite an issue of the past 10 years, not just in Canterbury, where I live, but in many places of New Zealand. Many people complain that this fungal disease strikes in late winter/early spring and the only thing that stops it from hammering the garlic plants is by regular spraying with Copper or copper/sulphur fungicides (Organics...

"Amid the treasury of winning attractions across the West Coast, sampling its spoil of historic pubs, steeped in character and heritage is an irrepressible draw. They are keepers of the past and bridges to the present, proudly speaking to our pioneering history, of heady gold and coal rushes, and trail-blazing development. A starring specimen is Formerly The Blackball Hilton, located at the foot of the Paparoa ranges, just 29km fro...

Tattooist of Auschwitz 

Six-part series based on the international bestselling novel by Heather Morris, inspired by the real-life story of Holocaust prisoners Lali and Gita Sokolov (Neon). 

Dark Matter 

A man is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could've lived, he embarks on a harrowing journey to g...

On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 11 May 2024, Jack spoke to kiwi filmmaker James Napier Robertson about his fascination for dysfunctional characters in real life stories and new film Joika. 

Research has revealed that manual cars will essentially be extinct in the next five years, and Jack considered how engaging automatic cars are to drive. 

A fascination for dysfunctional, outsider characters in real life stories has led James Napier Robertson across the stage, small screen, and big screen. 

The filmmaker has found huge success telling kiwi stories like The Dark Horse starring Cliff Curtis, and 2020's Dame Whina Cooper biopic. 

Napier Robetson is going global with a story about one of the only American women ever to take part in the R...