Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

I flew to Greymouth the morning after Pike River first blew.  

I was there, in and out, for several weeks. I keenly remember those first few days of waiting. Of hope. Checking our phones. Checking our phones. Checking our phones. 

It’s a cliche, I know. But time moves so slowly when you’re watching a clock. I remember the calculations. How much air? Water? Food? I remember the international media pouring into Greymouth. I...

Little marmalade cakes  

These light and buttery cakes are perfect using up marmalade. Quick and easy the marmalade flavour is perfect incorporated into a cake.  

Makes 12  

Ingredients:

• 170g butter, softened, plus more for greasing muffin tins 
• 1 cup sugar 
• 2 large eggs 
• 2 cups plain flour 
• 1 tbsp marmalade  
• 1 cup milk stirred with 1 tbsp lemon juice 
• 1 tsp baking soda 

Raised at the bottom of the world, Sam Cullen is on his way up. 

The Invercargill-born musician is rising in the music world, having already performed on the main stage at Rhythm & Vines, as well as playing on some of the coolest stages around the country. 

He’s been working quietly behind the scenes on his self-titled debut album, which is set to release soon. 

Some of the songs on the album, he revealed to Jack...

The fifth solo studio album from American musician Jeff Tweedy, Twilight Override is packed full. 

It’s a triple album, with a total of 30 tracks, created with the intention of overwhelming the ‘ennui’ that was being squeezed into his life with his own creative works. 

He’s credited the prolific output to his belief that creativity “eats darkness”. 

James Irwin joined Jack Tame to review the album. 

LISTEN ABOVE...

Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China by Jung Chang  

Jung Chang’s Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation – the story of ‘three daughters of China’: Jung, her mother and her grandmother and their lives during a century of revolution. Fly, Wild Swans is, quite simply, what happened next. 

Jung Chang arrived in the UK in 1978 aged 26, part of a Chinese scholarship programme for study abroad. Finding herself ...

"For even the most intrepid of travellers, India can be a sensory assault – confronting and riveting in equal measure. If you’re a first-timer to the subcontinent, the Golden Triangle which threads together New Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur offers the best crash-course in getting to grips with India. I first tripped around the Golden Triangle fourteen years ago and I’ve recently completed a return visit with Wendy Wu Tours. It was fascin...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ll know that we’ve just had Mental Health Awareness Week. It’s a great initiative by the Mental Health Foundation to normalise talking and thinking about mental health!  

Pop quiz – how many Kiwi adults do you think will, in their lifetime, experience a major mental health problem?  

According to Ministry of Health, it’s 47% of us.  

But data from the Dunedin Longitudinal St...

On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 11 October 2025, rising Kiwi musician Sam Cullen joins Jack in studio for a live performance and to chat about the upcoming release of his debut album. 

Jack considers the lack of rules around treatment of referees in football. 

Tara Ward shares details on the brand-new series of The Celebrity Traitors UK, starring Stephen Fry, Alan Carr, and Celia Imri...

Motor neurone disease is a devasting condition that’s recently come to prominence in the media with the diagnosis of former English rugby captain Lewis Moody. Another famous person who suffered from the condition was Stephen Hawkins.  

What is motor neurone disease?  

• It’s a progressive nerve disease.  
• It damages and kills nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain that control muscle movement in the...

Codling moths are a pain in the backside for people that grow apples. A week or so after flowering, the fertilised, tiny apples (known in the UK as “codlings”) are the perfect target for the moths to lay eggs in. 

The caterpillars emerge from the eggs and tunnel into the developing fruit, causing ugly tunnels, often with fungal infection, brown decay, and “frass” sticking out of the hole. Once these caterpillars are inside, yo...

Apps have arrived inside ChatGPT  

Another big moment in the company's offerings – this is where ChatGPT has gone from a tool to a platform. Now inside ChatGPT you can ask it to directly ask an app to do something. So, you can ask Spotify to create a playlist for you that is 150bpm for a 45 minute run. Or you can ask it to research hotels in Paris on Booking.com, and it'll return real results you can then book with a click. &n...

Victoria Beckham 

Step into Victoria Beckham's London atelier, as the Spice Girl-turned-powerhouse designer opens up about her life while preparing for Paris Fashion Week (Netflix). 

Film Club  

Two movie enthusiasts, Noa and Evie, share a weekly film club where their unspoken feelings for each other grow. When Noa decides to move away for work, Evie has a limited time to confess her love before potentially lo...

Eleanor the Great  

After seventy years with best friend, Eleanor moves to New York City for a fresh start. Making new friends at ninety proves difficult. Longing for connection, she befriends a 19-year-old student. 

The Lost Bus  

A white-knuckle ride through one of America's wildfires as a wayward school bus driver and a dedicated school teacher battle to save 22 children from the inferno. 

This is an utterly delicious way to make the most of seasonal asparagus. It’s simple, packed full of protein, and just as good for lunch or dinner, as a picnic item or party piece.   

Serves 4-6   

Ingredients 

• ¼ cup olive oil   
• 1 onion, thinly sliced   
• 400g (approx. 2 medium-large) potato   
• 5 medium-large eggs, lightly beaten in a large bowl   
• 2...

The All Whites were playing Poland yesterday in the build up for next year’s World Cup. I saw about half of the game. Although we ultimately lost, my main takeaway was that we looked alright. All Whites of old would have faced potential humiliation in a game against Poland – not this team. 

But for whatever reason I was also struck by one of the challenges that led to a yellow card in the match, and the way in which the player...

A bit of a change in focus for Jeremy Redmore. 

While most will know him from the rock band Midnight Youth, Redmore is going through a bit of a creative evolution, turning his attention to children’s music. 

But it’s not the sugar-rush pop you might be expecting, the music instead following a —surprisingly emotional— narrative. 

Redmore told Jack Tame it all started when he was writing a children’s book about the sup...