Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Our eco-man Malcolm Rands has been thinking about New Year resolutions you can actually keep that will help our planet: Each New Year many of us make grand resolutions for the coming year. What if these resolutions were actually climate friendly actions that were easy to keep? It’s not all about sacrifice Sometimes we look at the activists that are doing extreme and energy draining activities and...

Since we started summer (solstice on the longest day of 21st of December, last year) we’ve basically “turned the corner”.  The “longest day” was not really the longest day here in Christchurch (but a few days later), but the point is that from now on our days are getting shorter – very slowly. Once we get to mid-to-late February the shortening will speed up and reach its fastest downhill trend of...

Finance expert Hannah McQueen says to strap in as inflation is going to be a big issue this year. It’s currently sitting at almost five percent and the signs are indicating it’s going to go higher still when the next lot of figures are released next week. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ordering free COVID tests was a breeze The US Government is offering four free at-home COVID tests to each residence and ordering them was super simple - I'd probably describe it as one of the best interactions I've ever had with a government service. To make it happen they tapped the resources of the US Postal Service. The page was effectively a checkout page, with the product already selected, t...

Under the Vines: a charming new romantic drama about a Sydney socialite (Rebecca Gibney) and London lawyer (The Crown’s Charles Edwards) who mutually inherit a run-down vineyard in New Zealand (Wednesdays on TVNZ 1 and TVNZ OnDemand). Bloom: An Australian fantasy drama starring Bryan Brown and Jacki Weaver. A year after a devastating country flood kills five people, a new plant is discovered with...

Matthew Vaughn is a renowned Hollywood director and producer with a portfolio chocka full of cracker films such as Rocketman, Kick-Ass and the comedy classic, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He’s also directed and written the King’s Men series, which stars Ralph Fiennes and Colin Firth.    A third installment has just been released called The King’s Man. Matthew Vaughn speaks to Francesca Rud...

Movie reviewer Chris Schulz speaks to Francesca Rudkin about the House of Gucci film and another Scream installment.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The weather has been wonderfully settled for months – I’ll remember it as cloudless blue skies and 27 every day, regardless of what weather forecasters predicted, and even when it wasn’t. Traveling around the North Island over the Christmas and New Year, I noticed a relaxed Kiwi summer vibe. Maybe it was the exhilaration of being able to leave home towns and visit family and friends, maybe it was...

Kevin Milne speaks to Francesca Rudkin about the hot weather over the summer break - and why that's not necessarily a good thing.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Music reviewer Estelle Clifford reminisces on her top albums of the year. Want to listen? Click the link below to a Spotify playlist of all the songs on each album. Estelle Clifford's top albums of the year LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Catherine’s top picks for summer  Fiction:  Never – Ken Follet  The Lincoln Highway – Amor Towles  Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reed  Wish You Were Here – Jodi Picoult  Non-fiction  The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins – Peter Fitzsimons  Windswept and Interesting – Billy Connelly   This Much I Know To Be True – Miriam Margolyes  Story teller – Dave Grohl  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listen...

Mike Yardley gives his top tips on western Southland - places like Riverton and Gemstone Beach. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Year is a common trigger for relationships to end.   Three things to consider: 1. We tend to be attracted to similar people,  people who break up tend to change the person not the problems.   2. Where there are communication problems we often misinterpret our partners intentions.   3. If we have kids we have a relationship with our partner for the rest of our life, how we separate matters.  LI...

Looking forward to Christmas? Why not dive into the garden with a glass of Campari/Soda, grab a hammock and through squinted eye-lids observe the typical summer features in the bug department  Close your eyes slightly and look in the direction of the sun. Especially when the late afternoon sun is lower in the sky and temps are up. Millions of tiny insects fly around.  Migrating winged aphids – loo...

Mumm Marlborough NV Brut Prestige $35 Why I chose it: - Thought I’d go out with a bang on my last pick for 2021 - A collaboration between Mumm Champagne and Pernod Ricard NZ. A blend of 46% Pinot Noir, 45% Chardonnay and 9% Pinot Meunier. - Think of it as a Kiwi wine with a slight French accent - Open carefully by covering the cork with a napkin as you loosen the wire. Best to hold the bottle at 4...

What you should know about the worst computer vulnerability security researchers have ever seen. It's called Log4j. It's a tiny logging application which records actions taken by users or systems that lives deep inside the software. Basically any application running on Java includes it.. which is a staggeringly large list. Hackers can use a vulnerability in Log4j to install ransomware or malicious...

Our very own Gin Wigmore is returning home for a five-date tour next year. She’s currently based in L.A with her family where she’s writing a new album and running a hotel called The Good House. She cathces up with Jack Tame on music, her life overseas and what she's looking forward to about coming home.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

XMAS RECIPES & TIPS  TURKEY  The trick to cooking the perfect turkey is this; stuff, truss and flip, by which I mean that I stuff it with a buttery stuffing, including under the breast skin, before trussing it to keep the legs and wings tucked into the body so that it cooks evenly and then, once cooked, flip it to rest on its breast so that all the lovely juices run in to moisten the breast meat....

Movie reviewer Francesca Rudkin has been watching the new Spiderman movie, Ghostbusters & The King's Man. She's also got a review of Westside Story and The Matrix: Resurrection.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Milne chats to Jack Tame about the ups and downs of 2021.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In July of this year, my Dad almost carked it. He went tramping alone in the bush in winter. He got lost. He fell. He smashed up his body and fractured a vertabrae. He was hallucinating, hypothermic, severely-dehydrated, suffering serious muscle wastage and close to kidney failure, when the Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter answered his emergency locator beacon and winched him out of the bush,...

Estelle Clifford gives us the lowdown on Kiwi country singer Kaylee Bell and her new album Silver Linings.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Theroux the Keyhole – Louis Theroux  Step inside Louis' life like never before as he turns his critical eye on himself, his home, and family and tries to make sense of our weird and sometimes scary world. His new autobiography is the perfect book for our uncertain times by the hilarious and relatable Louis Theroux.  For Your Own Good – Samantha Downing  USA Today bestselling author Samantha Downin...

Mike Yardley chats to Jack Tame about Queenstown - what to do, where's new to eat and drink and whether they're ready for the influx of Aucklanders once they're allowed out. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most of us have now come across Secret Santa either with our extended family or workmates. This is actually a very eco activity, swapping out lots of small presents, that often are never used, to one well thought out gift, mainly within a price range. This can be given out randomly, this was the job of the youngest member of our family, or someone takes on, secretly letting everyone know who they...