Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Catherine Raynes has been busy reading Love Marriage by Monica Ali and A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are having a fabulous summer and where I live on the Tutukaka Coast of Northland we get lots of wonderful visitors from all over NZ. And their dogs.   Now, we are dog owners and at our eco village we actually have kiwi roaming between the houses at night. Quite noisy actually, always calling for each other.  There is a ‘no uncontrolled dog’ policy at the village so it was with quite a lot of tr...

Always a bit of a bummer when you grow tomatoes: Blight is one of those diseases that can cause a lot of damage and quickly. Two varieties: early blight (Alternaria solani) and late blight (Phytophthora infestans). This last species is a close relative of the famous potato disease that cause massive potato crop losses in Europe, especially Ireland, which led to the horticultural Refugee movement a...

Bob Campbell has been making the most of New Zealand Pinot Gris, which he says has never been better! His best buy pick this week is the Mount Brown 2021 Pinot Gris from North Canterbury, for $16 a bottle.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you remember the moment history was made for New Zealand in tennis at the Tokyo Olympics last year? Marcus Daniell and Michael Venus won the bronze medal in doubles - the first medal in tennis for our country. Marcus is just as successful off the court as on it. The 32-year-old is has recently been named the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year. Previous winners include the likes of Nelson Mand...

Meta / Facebook now holds the record for the largest single-day loss ever by a US company  It said goodbye to $230 billion in value. There are three big reasons why...  For the first time, Facebook's daily active users went down by 1 million in North America - which is bad news because Facebook's revenue per user is highest in North America. Basically, the kids don't think it's cool anymore and Ti...

Reacher: A must-watch for fans of the Lee Child best-selling novels. This new crime thriller follows Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, who has recently entered civilian life when he is falsely accused of murder (Amazon Prime Video).  Rules of the Game: A British drama set in a small family-run business, where a series of historic misconduct cases are unearthed with dramatic con...

This salad is full of texture and flavour and it is glorious. The components are cooked separately then thrown together just before serving – YUM.  Serves 2-4  2 medium sized eggplants, sliced into 2cm thick rounds  4 tbsps olive oil  2 red capsicums, halved and de-seeded  2 handfuls green beans, chopped and blanched  ½ cup roasted peanuts  Handful fresh coriander  Dressing  ½ cup plain, unsweeten...

Movie reviewer Francesca Rudkin has been watching Belfast and Moonfall, as well as the documentary on MMA and kickboxing fighter Mark Hunt, called The Fight of his Life. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Milne has been dealing with the question of ALL questions this week - how long will I live? He's stumbled upon Statistic New Zealand's calculator that can work out how long you are likely to live.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For those of us who live in New Zealand, MIQ has been pretty bloody good. Not perfect, no. But good enough to keep out the worst of the virus for the best part of two years. Of course, for New Zealanders based overseas who’ve wanted to get home, the experience has been pretty different. As New Zealand citizens, most of our opinions have been informed by our own individual experiences. If you’ve be...

Mike Yardley has a tip or two about Westport.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Good Son What do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognisable to you? For Thea, the answer is simple and agonising: you keep loving him somehow. Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Belinda, a crime he has no memory of committing. Three years later, he’s released to a world that refuses to let him move on.  Renegades RENEGADES: Born...

Our relationship expert Steven Dromgool shares his tips on how to have a happy Valentine's Day. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re used to specific sounds in the garden;  Don’t know what it’s like at your place, but we’ve heard ONE cicada so far in our garden on the Port Hills;  Reasons:  3-, 5- or 7-year lifecycles determine the numbers of cicadas out – it you keep a diary you’ll find out that “good years” return 5 years later, when it comes to chorus cicada or “clapping cicada  Three years ago, it was bedlam here and...

Apple's Christmas quarter was quite the gift $124 billion in revenue - that's up 11% on the past year; $35 billion in profit. They've been hit by chip shortages, and have been forced to prioritize giving chips to iPhones over iPads. They also revealed there are 1.8 billion active Apple devices in the world. For comparison, Google says there are over 3 billion Android devices in its Google Play Sto...

Trigger Point: Jed Mercuio's new crime thriller that might just fill the Line of Duty hole in your lives. It follows Lana Washington, an experienced bomb disposal officer working for the Metropolitan Police, as she deals with a series of terrorist attacks across London. (TVNZ OnDemand)  The Gilded Age: Calling all Downton Abbey fans! Julian Fellows’s new historic drama is set in 1882 America and f...

Niva and Yotam Kay run Pakaraka Permaculture in Thames on the Coromandel Peninsula. Their mission...  Accelerating the transition to a regenerative, organic and just food system.  But what exactly is permaculture and how do this pair grow over 10-thousand kgs of food a season on just one-third of an acre of land?  Niva and Yotam chat to Jack Tame about getting their hands dirty for future generati...

If you’re a gardener you’ll know that once courgettes start fruiting, they don’t know when to stop and lovely little courgettes can turn into clumsy marrows over lunchtime! So, to use up surplus I urge you to bake this cake – it’s divine. Makes 20cm cake 2 tablespoon fine ground polenta (can use ground almonds) 130g butter, softened 100g sugar 2 eggs 130g flour 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp baking sod...

Movie reviewer Chris Schulz give his hot takes on Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart and American biographical film, Through the Eyes of Tammy Faye.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Milne tells Jack Tame that he's found his new favourite collective noun. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was a summer holiday on borrowed time. You’ve gotta admit, it’s pretty remarkable we made it this far without Omicron sweeping through. New Zealand enjoyed Christmas without widespread community transmission. Despite DJ Dimension, we made it through the New Year and most of January. But I think we can all see the end is nigh. It’s quite feasible that by this time next week, our Omicron daily ca...

Mike Yardley has got your road trip stops sorted for Selwyn's Great Alpine Highway - the route between Canterbury and the West Coast. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our music reviewer Estelle Clifford has been having fun listening to Aussie band Lime Cordiale and British actor Idris Elba's collaborative mini-album, Cordi Elba.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Exit 45 – Ben Sanders   Marshall Grade returns in an action-packed thrill ride through the New York underworld. When a former NYPD colleague is shot dead in front of him, private investigator Marshall Grade discovers there's far more to the killing than meets the eye.  Vanderbilt’s - Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe  New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New Y...