Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Growing tomatoes   It’s great to have a go at these fruit – there are many varieties too and everybody has their favourite ones. But there are some problems that can occur, whether you’re raising them in an open garden bed or in a glasshouse/tunnel house Tomato – (potato) psyllids are a nuisance interloper in NZ. They got here a few decades ago and will attack Solanaceous plants (potatoes, tomatoe...

Estelle Clifford has been listening to Ladyhawke's new album, Time Flies - her fourth album and the first in five years.   She told Jack Tame this is all the stuff we'd expect from Ladyhawke - except this is more personal. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bob Campbell has been enjoying the best red under $20 he's had for a while - the Taylors 2019 Shiraz. It's a full-flavoured wine, perfect for summer BBQs. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tara Ward joined Jack Tame and shared her picks for this week: The Beatles: Get Back: Directed and produced by Peter Jackson, this three-part documentary season follows The Beatles as they made their 1970 album Let It Be, using hours of unseen material and footage (Amazon Prime Video).   Annika: A new detective series about the sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed, as she heads up a new...

Lush is bailing on social media   They've deleted all their content from Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok saying they'll stay off those social media channels globally until the platforms ensure a safer environment for their users. They're saying goodbye to strong marketing channels with 659,000 Instagram followers, 275,000 Twitter fans and more than 1 million Facebook followers. They say t...

Which is the most eco and healthiest of the milks (and yummiest)?   We live in a world where the old milk aisle at the supermarket now also has soy, almond, rice, oat, coconut and even hemp milks. Macadamia milk seems to have come and gone at my local.  Many people are changing for health reasons, mainly lactose intolerant and others because of the revolt against peak cow ruining the environment....

Our movie reviewer Francesca Rudkin has been watching a Netflix film called Passing and a French film called Petite Maman.   "Passing" is set in 1920's New York and is filmed in black and white. Rudkin said it's a very subtly charged social drama.  "Petite Maman" was filmed in France in lockdown and is on at the cinemas. Rudkin said it's very intimate and it's a film you want to just pass over you...

Here are some refreshing non-alcoholic drinks to get you through the silly season. The only thing you’ll feel the next morning is smug.   Raspberry shrub  Shrubs are fruity vinegar drinks and they’re amazing! Standard recipe is equal parts fruit, sugar and viengar but you can adjust these to your taste.  Makes 200mls syrup  450g fresh raspberries  1 cup caster sugar  ½ cup red wine vinegar  Soda w...

Kevin Milne has been reminiscing about radio, as the medium hits a 100 year milestone in New Zealand.  He told Jack Tame he wasn't always a fan of radio - when he was little he couldn't get changed in any room that had a radio in it.  "I used to love Sports Round-up on the radio on the weekends." He said his fondest memory of radio as a kid was the Sunday request session which his family would lis...

With our biggest city in its third month of lockdown, hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders still effectively barred from entering the country, inflation running at 5%, and hundreds of new infections being recorded every day, the decisions made by our government deserve the scrutiny of a coherent and effective opposition. And while ACT has done an extremely good job in the last year, our politic...

Our music reviewer Estelle Clifford shares her thoughts on Adele's highly-anticipated new album, '30'. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Catherine Raynes has been busy reading Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid and Michael Connelly's The Dark Hours.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Yardley's been walking the trails around Arrowtown and drinking wine in Gibbston Valley...the life! He shares his tips for the area with Jack Tame.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Relationship expert Steven Dromgool tells Jack Tame how to get your partner what they actually want for Christmas instead of guessing.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mental health and Gardening exercise I have often wondered what it is like to live on the 16th floor. As a child, my parents always had a garden – that’s where I learned the “Manual of Outside Life”. As students in the Netherlands we lived (with a baby!) in an old city house without a garden, literally in the centre of Wageningen. The remedy: a jungle of pot plants and vines (Hoya, Stephanotis, Mo...

Dr Bryan Betty gives Jack Tame the lowdown on eczema and shares his tips on how to help soothe it. Bryan Betty is a GP and medical director for the College of GPs. He’s also on the Covid-19 advisory committee.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tara Ward joined Jack Tame and shared her picks for this week: Yellowjackets: Melanie Lynskey stars in Neon’s new psychological thriller "Yellowjackets" about a team of wildly talented high-school girls soccer players who survive a plane crash deep in the Ontario wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to warring, cannibalistic clans, while also trackin...

Apple will let you fix your iPhone at home  They're even going to send you the parts! Huge news!   Apple is creating the "Self Service Repair" program in early 2022 for those in the US, to fix iPhone 12's and 13s with things like broken screens, dead batteries and busted cameras. You'll be able to buy more than 200 parts and tools to make the repairs.  Even better is these repairs won't void the w...

Kiwi favourites Sol3 Mio have released their fourth studio album called Coming Home. It's their most stripped back to date, featuring a mix of contemporary hits and well-known classics. The trio speak to Jack Tame about making the album and how the pandemic has played into it.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you’re feeling stuck in a rut with your cooking, try shopping somewhere new like an Indian spice shop or Asian style supermarket, your local butcher or grocer instead of a supermarket.   These crisp little chick pea shells are popular in India and I love to fill them with spiced potatoes, a tangy tamarind chutney and cooling yoghurt sauce. They’re so delightful to eat – they collapse divinely i...

Francesca Rudkin gives her take on The Rescue - the edge-of-your-seat account of the rescue of 12 Thai school boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave system in 2018. She says the film is so remarkable because it's gripping, emotional, inspirational and horrifying at times. She's also been watching the romantic comedy, Falling for Figaro, which is more enjoyable than she thought it would be...

Kevin Milne's been reading, A Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha. Kevin says he's quite a hero in Ngati Toa country, Kapiti, where he lives. It's lead him to wonder about the use of Te Rauparaha's haka, Ka Mate, by the All Blacks and other national teams. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I spent yesterday afternoon with a couple of doctors from Papakura Marae, going door-to-door visiting whānau who have tested positive for Covid-19. They were testing vital signs and oxygen saturation. The story will be on Q+A tomorrow. It was a good reminder of just how different our pandemic experiences are. My biggest day-to-day gripe is not being able to go to a restaurant. These doctors are wo...

Music reviewer Estelle Clifford has been listening to the new album from Silk Sonic, an American R&B super-duo consisting of recording artists Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lemon trees They love a warm, sheltered spot in full sun – protected from wind; usually not good with heavy frosts. (Meyer lemons possibly a few degrees below zero); protect the trees from heavy frosts with frost-cloth…. …or grow them in a large pot that can be moved under frost shelter! Most citrus varieties are gross feeders – honestly: they’ll reward you with lots of fruit if you fertilise at l...