June 20, 2025 • 6 mins
Last week Kevin Milne was questioning if New Zealand companies were running out of original ideas when it came to film and television. This week, he’s happy to be proven wrong.
Kevin Milne recently watched ‘Diary of a Junior Doctor’, a local docuseries from Storymaker, and has nothing but praise.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from newstalk ZTB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Eighteen past nine on News Talks V with Jack Tame
Oh Jack. I ended up in tears at the end
of that, says Maxine, as a nana, I could picture
it all. I love your stories. Thanks so much, Maxine.
Jack loved that story about long haul traveling with a baby,
laughed and cried. I could feel the whole journey, but
meeting everyone at the other end did it for me.
I'm nat grandma. Thank you ninety two ninety two if
you want to send us a message. This morning, I
(00:34):
had this amazing kind of not out of body experience
waking up this morning. So we went to bed at
five o'clock local time, bather by the time we got
the boys down and kind of had a shower and everything,
and then we got up, and of course, you know,
with jet LaGG you're supposed to go outside and get
a bit of sunshine, but Marnie fell asleep on me.
So my wife and her parents and our eight year
old ended up going out for a couple of hours
(00:56):
and I stayed home with my wife's great girl, with
my wife's grandparents. So our boys great grandparents who are
very Persian, speak very little and they're in their nineties
and so we had this amazing couple of hours connecting
on the couch with their great grandson. It's just, honestly,
it's like just so special, you know, and and not
(01:18):
to lean into the copupper of Mataikei unnecessarily, but I think,
you know, being together at this time of year is
one of the core kind of copapper behind Mattaducky. So
it was kind of special that we're able to travel
across the world and see, you know, family in this way.
It really is. I'll get to more of your feedback
in a couple of minutes, but Kevin Milon is here
with us this morning. Call to Kevin.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Or Marderiki to tell ho marii my own Kea. I
hope you have enjoying the weekend very much.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So yeah, Manawati Mataiki, Kevin, Yeah, yeah, it's I'm I'm
a big fan of the Muttadaki holiday. It does feel like,
I mean, so many things to like about it. Great
time of year for it, love the kind of copappa,
love that it's related to the natural world, so you're
looking up to the sky and trying to see that
star cluster as well. But yeah, I'm a big fan
and love that that it's a long weekend, that it
(02:16):
doesn't fall in the middle of the week. If you're
going to have a public holiday, there's no point having
it on a Wednesday. You might as well make it
a long weekend. So yeah, that's very much a big
fan of Matadiki and I think a lot of people
will be enjoying it this weekend. And Kevin, you've been
impressed this week by a local TV show.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, after questioning last week with the New Zealand TV
companies are running out of original ideas, I then discover
Diary of a Junior Doctor. I stumbled onto it and
it was a third episode this week on TV and
said it was so compelling. I went back and watched
the first two diary. Diary of a Junior Doctor sounds
(02:53):
a bit like a soap and if there's anything wrong
with it this program, I think it's the name of
the of the show, but it's far from the soap.
Cameras followed the lives of five or six junior doctors
as a transition from students to real doctors working with
real people. In the Caudron that's Awkland's Middlemore Hospital. You know,
(03:15):
I haven't seen the sort of documentary done so well
as someone who's directed the odd documentary.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm left wondering, how did.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
The producers get access to so much of what's going
on in Middlemore? How did they get the okay to
film patients and crisis emergency births, critically injured accident victims.
Maybe the director was allowed to film cut blanche as
long as it was all approved later. I can't think
of another way it was done. Whatever the scenes are compelling,
(03:47):
I found myself asking more questions. How did the producers
convince these bright young doctors to be filmed at such
a critical time in their careers. They've got enough on
their shoulders without having cameras looking over. But it wasn't
luck that probably the most talented of all the junior
doctors also happened to have an all black boyfriend, who
(04:09):
I think they've now and got engaged, who's also.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Happy to be filmed. The doctor will surely.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Increase the public's admiration for doctors a stress three young ones,
but I'm not so sure Jack, that will encourage more
bright young school students to apply for med school. Let's
hope it does, but blind me that job of a
junior doctor looks bloody scary anyway. Congratulations to Kiwi Production
(04:36):
House storymaker and producer director Rachel Curry for the remarkable
stories and insights in Diary of a Junior Doctor. And
can I also just add I sort of feel a
bit silly really haven't criticized the lack of good ideas
and I've been many said this for a week. What
a terrific series Endangered Species at Roya was Nicola Toke
(05:01):
and Baxter study brilliant?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I totally agree. Yeah, they are outstanding there to such
an unlikely peer as well, but you know, they do
such a good job. I kind of love the good
cop bad cop vibe they have, you know, when they
go out into nature together. But yeah, you're spot on
about Diary of a Junior Doctor as well. I mean
I wondered the same thing. You know, as someone who's
worked in TV for a couple of decades now you think,
(05:24):
oh my goodness, I know what health New Zealanders like
to you know, to work with, and I just can't
imagine what it's like to go to them and say, hey,
can we just have cameras rolling the whole time. But
it's compelling. It's really compelling in such important stories. And
I think, you know, so often when it comes to
health stuff, we know about the you know, we hear
the kind of theory of things, we hear the news reporting, right,
(05:46):
but to actually see it firsthand, to get a visceral
kind of perspective of what it's like on the frontline
of our health system, I think it's just so so
valuable and it's really compelling. So yeah, well, well see, Kevin,
who's your pick for the Super Rugby Final tonight?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I don't know, Actually I don't know, And it's a
tough call, brutally honest.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
More, it's the warrious fantas game.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Ah, spoken like a Hurricanes fan.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah, sorry, Kevin, Yeah, yeah, you know what, sometimes it's
a great pleader in sport to actually watch a really
good game, a high stakes game, when you have no
skin in it, you know, when it doesn't bother it
doesn't bother you who's going to come out on top?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Sometimes that can be a.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Great exactly, that's quite right. It'll be a terrific game.
It'll be a great Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
No, I agree. Coun't wait. Hey, thanks so much, Kevin.
Agree with Kevin on the text. I did the same,
watched the first three episodes. What an incredible, wonderful show, Jack.
I'm also loving Diary of a Junior Doctor as someone
who works with these young doctors when the medical students,
it's a great insight into the next steps. Thank you
for that. Ninety two ninety two If you want to
send us text message
Speaker 1 (06:54):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to news talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from newstalk ZTB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Eighteen past nine on News Talks V with Jack Tame
Oh Jack. I ended up in tears at the end
of that, says Maxine, as a nana, I could picture
it all. I love your stories. Thanks so much, Maxine.
Jack loved that story about long haul traveling with a baby,
laughed and cried. I could feel the whole journey, but
meeting everyone at the other end did it for me.
I'm nat grandma. Thank you ninety two ninety two if
you want to send us a message. This morning, I
(00:34):
had this amazing kind of not out of body experience
waking up this morning. So we went to bed at
five o'clock local time, bather by the time we got
the boys down and kind of had a shower and everything,
and then we got up, and of course, you know,
with jet LaGG you're supposed to go outside and get
a bit of sunshine, but Marnie fell asleep on me.
So my wife and her parents and our eight year
old ended up going out for a couple of hours
(00:56):
and I stayed home with my wife's great girl, with
my wife's grandparents. So our boys great grandparents who are
very Persian, speak very little and they're in their nineties
and so we had this amazing couple of hours connecting
on the couch with their great grandson. It's just, honestly,
it's like just so special, you know, and and not
(01:18):
to lean into the copupper of Mataikei unnecessarily, but I think,
you know, being together at this time of year is
one of the core kind of copapper behind Mattaducky. So
it was kind of special that we're able to travel
across the world and see, you know, family in this way.
It really is. I'll get to more of your feedback
in a couple of minutes, but Kevin Milon is here
with us this morning. Call to Kevin.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Or Marderiki to tell ho marii my own Kea. I
hope you have enjoying the weekend very much.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So yeah, Manawati Mataiki, Kevin, Yeah, yeah, it's I'm I'm
a big fan of the Muttadaki holiday. It does feel like,
I mean, so many things to like about it. Great
time of year for it, love the kind of copappa,
love that it's related to the natural world, so you're
looking up to the sky and trying to see that
star cluster as well. But yeah, I'm a big fan
and love that that it's a long weekend, that it
(02:16):
doesn't fall in the middle of the week. If you're
going to have a public holiday, there's no point having
it on a Wednesday. You might as well make it
a long weekend. So yeah, that's very much a big
fan of Matadiki and I think a lot of people
will be enjoying it this weekend. And Kevin, you've been
impressed this week by a local TV show.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, after questioning last week with the New Zealand TV
companies are running out of original ideas, I then discover
Diary of a Junior Doctor. I stumbled onto it and
it was a third episode this week on TV and
said it was so compelling. I went back and watched
the first two diary. Diary of a Junior Doctor sounds
(02:53):
a bit like a soap and if there's anything wrong
with it this program, I think it's the name of
the of the show, but it's far from the soap.
Cameras followed the lives of five or six junior doctors
as a transition from students to real doctors working with
real people. In the Caudron that's Awkland's Middlemore Hospital. You know,
(03:15):
I haven't seen the sort of documentary done so well
as someone who's directed the odd documentary.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm left wondering, how did.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
The producers get access to so much of what's going
on in Middlemore? How did they get the okay to
film patients and crisis emergency births, critically injured accident victims.
Maybe the director was allowed to film cut blanche as
long as it was all approved later. I can't think
of another way it was done. Whatever the scenes are compelling,
(03:47):
I found myself asking more questions. How did the producers
convince these bright young doctors to be filmed at such
a critical time in their careers. They've got enough on
their shoulders without having cameras looking over. But it wasn't
luck that probably the most talented of all the junior
doctors also happened to have an all black boyfriend, who
(04:09):
I think they've now and got engaged, who's also.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Happy to be filmed. The doctor will surely.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Increase the public's admiration for doctors a stress three young ones,
but I'm not so sure Jack, that will encourage more
bright young school students to apply for med school. Let's
hope it does, but blind me that job of a
junior doctor looks bloody scary anyway. Congratulations to Kiwi Production
(04:36):
House storymaker and producer director Rachel Curry for the remarkable
stories and insights in Diary of a Junior Doctor. And
can I also just add I sort of feel a
bit silly really haven't criticized the lack of good ideas
and I've been many said this for a week. What
a terrific series Endangered Species at Roya was Nicola Toke
(05:01):
and Baxter study brilliant?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I totally agree. Yeah, they are outstanding there to such
an unlikely peer as well, but you know, they do
such a good job. I kind of love the good
cop bad cop vibe they have, you know, when they
go out into nature together. But yeah, you're spot on
about Diary of a Junior Doctor as well. I mean
I wondered the same thing. You know, as someone who's
worked in TV for a couple of decades now you think,
(05:24):
oh my goodness, I know what health New Zealanders like
to you know, to work with, and I just can't
imagine what it's like to go to them and say, hey,
can we just have cameras rolling the whole time. But
it's compelling. It's really compelling in such important stories. And
I think, you know, so often when it comes to
health stuff, we know about the you know, we hear
the kind of theory of things, we hear the news reporting, right,
(05:46):
but to actually see it firsthand, to get a visceral
kind of perspective of what it's like on the frontline
of our health system, I think it's just so so
valuable and it's really compelling. So yeah, well, well see, Kevin,
who's your pick for the Super Rugby Final tonight?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I don't know, Actually I don't know, And it's a
tough call, brutally honest.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
More, it's the warrious fantas game.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Ah, spoken like a Hurricanes fan.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah, sorry, Kevin, Yeah, yeah, you know what, sometimes it's
a great pleader in sport to actually watch a really
good game, a high stakes game, when you have no
skin in it, you know, when it doesn't bother it
doesn't bother you who's going to come out on top?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Sometimes that can be a.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Great exactly, that's quite right. It'll be a terrific game.
It'll be a great Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
No, I agree. Coun't wait. Hey, thanks so much, Kevin.
Agree with Kevin on the text. I did the same,
watched the first three episodes. What an incredible, wonderful show, Jack.
I'm also loving Diary of a Junior Doctor as someone
who works with these young doctors when the medical students,
it's a great insight into the next steps. Thank you
for that. Ninety two ninety two If you want to
send us text message
Speaker 1 (06:54):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to news talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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