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?
Episodes
The debut studio album from Georgia Lines, ‘The Rose of Jericho’ is a ten-track album touching on grief, loss, heartache, as well as joy and lightness.
The album is named for a plant that has come to symbolise rebirth and hope due to its seemingly magical ability to come back to life.
She told RNZ that the last few years have left her feeling like a Rose of Jericho herself.
"I am ...
Camino Island by John Grisham
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a...
When it comes to burials there’s a couple of well-known options in coffins, caskets, and cremation.
However, there are other options on offer as well, some more sustainable than others.
Kate ‘Ethically Kate’ Hall joined Jack Tame to discuss sustainable and green burial options, and what people need to think about when looking at these options.
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"It’s Italy in the extreme. She’s rough and ready and in your face. Gritty, gripping, daunting and intimidating to the uninitiated, mighty Naples is a southern Italian classic beyond comparison. It can strike newcomers as a hot mess. I have to confess that on several prior occasions, I haven’t ventured beyond the central train station in Naples, surrounded by Piazza Garibaldi. The ensuing piles of rubbish, swarms of beggars and gen...
Wine: Durvillea 2023 Sauvignon Blanc $18
Why I chose it:
- Terrific wine, especially considering the difficult vintage (cyclone Gabriella)
- Entry level wine for Astrolabe. Entry level price but not entry level quality.
- You might remember the MV Rena grounded on the Astrolabe reef in 2021. By chance there were a couple of...
New Zealand’s Best Homes with Phil Spencer
Phil travels to the other side of the world to take a look inside some of the most amazing homes that New Zealand has to offer. We will reveal each of these stunning properties through the eyes of the people – the architects, the builders and the owners – that dared to dream them into reality (TVNZ1 on Sundays, TVNZ+).
Sweet...
Marguerite’s Theorem
When a brilliant mathematics student at France's top university presents her thesis, a mistake shakes the certainty of her planned-out life. She decides to quit everything and start over.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
When their late police captain gets linked to drug cartels, wisecracking Miami cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett embark on a dangerous mission to ...
Once seen as an indomitable challenge, Mount Everest has become increasingly commercialised.
It’s become a tourist industry, with queues of climbers all waiting to take their photos at the top, paying anywhere between US$65,000 and US$200,000, the VIP experience coming with a higher price tag.
Journalist and author Will Cockrell has been climbing mountains for over 30 years and has explored the ...
On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 8 June 2024, outdoor adventure journalist Will Cockrell gets to the heart of the Himalayan guiding industry in his new book exploring the commercialisation of Mt Everest.
How rich is too rich? Jack ponders a plan of action ahead of Lotto's $50 million draw.
Winter is a mere 2 weeks away and that means the coldest periods are very nigh indeed. Frost is –for some plant species– quite damaging.
Growth basically stops; Invertebrates tend to
Apple's big software developer conference is next week - what will they be announcing?
Lot's of AI features... Surprise! Apple is set to unveil its AI strategy which is going to be more focused around automating tasks and summarizing information, rather than image and video generation. For example, the upgraded Mail app will use AI to sort emails in your inbox, there will be a way to 'catch up' on everything th...
Bodies are complex, and although most people have a passing familiarity with basic bodily functions and facts, there’s plenty that most people don't know.
Kevin Milne finally got around to doing a CPR course last week and realised that there’s an unsettling amount of information about cardiac arrests that he wasn’t aware of.
He joined Jack Tame to share a few facts he learned.
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How much wealth is just the right amount of wealth?
How rich is too rich?
I had a successful businessman friend tell me once the Goldilocks zone is a mortgage-free home and five-to-ten million dollars in the bank. No more. Any more than that, and you can’t trust people.
But I dunno. Maybe this is just exposing me as a grubby money lover, but I reckon I could do fifty million.
I made this with plums because I'd defrosted some of my summer bounty, but any soft juicy fruit will work - soft pears, feijoa, stewed apples, berries etc.
Makes 10 bars
Ingredients:
120g butter
½ cup brown sugar
1 medium egg
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
¾ cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
Crowded House has dropped their eighth studio album ‘Gravity Stairs’.
As stated by frontman Neil Finn, the band was aiming for a dreamy quality on the album, juxtaposing the direct nature of the lyrics.
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Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
Rufus Leung Gresham, future Duke of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus’s scheming mother, is for Rufus to atte...
The 2024 Budget has finally been released, bringing with it a variety of changes not only to government funding, but to personal taxes.
Brad Olsen joined Jack Tame to dig into the changes, going through the new brackets, who will be affected, and who wont benefit.
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Eric
Puppeteer Vincent clings to his missing son's drawings of a blue monster puppet named Eric, convinced that if he can get Eric on TV then his son will come home (Netflix).
The Responder
Martin Freeman is back for a second season as the crisis-stricken first responder who works night shifts on the beat in Liverpool, trying to keep his ...
"Did you know that there’s less Italian blood in Sicilian veins than there is Phoenician, Greek, Arabic, Norman, Spanish, or French? It’s a stirring legacy to the 25 centuries of passing civilisations who have left their mark on the Mediterranean’s biggest island. The resulting mixture – exotic, spicy and highly inflammable - fuels Sicily’s distinct personality and self-governing pride....
After a throwaway line from Jack last week, Kevin Milne has been thinking about fizzy drinks.
Foxton Fizz is a local brand that’s been in business for over a century.
It’s now taking off all over the country, and Kevin has a few interesting tales about the company.
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