Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Fathers' Day Breakfast Traybake Is your dad a fan of sweet or savoury for breakfast? If he’s savoury, try this fabulous way to cook up “The  Big Brekky” – it’s so much easier than cooking up hashbrowns, eggs and bacon separately. Do it for dad this weekend!   This is easy to make for one or a crowd – just scale it up or down to suit you!   Serves 1   ½ large potato per person, thinly sliced  ¼ oni...

Movie reviewer Francesca Rudkin has some flicks you can catch from your couch this weekend. The musical comedy version of Cinderella starring Camila Cabello, Neon's Infinite, and Neon documentary Class Action Park. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What more could have been done to stop the attack? We don’t know enough yet to answer that with the certainty the gravity of this attack deserves. But we understand a few things. This man was known to Police and authorities. He was known to the Prime Minister. Judging by previous monitoring when he was arrested for buying a hunting knife, I think it’s safe to say he didn’t have the freedom to plan...

Travel writer Mike Yardley has been dreaming of getting out and about. Recently he was free-roaming in Central Hawke's Bay. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Seven piece Kiwi band Fat Freddy’s drop has released a new album – and it’s the chill vibe we probably all need in lockdown. It’s called Wairunga, and music reviewer Estelle Clifford has been taking a listen. LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Catherine Raynes has been reading The Rising Tide by Sam Lloyd, and One Ordinary Day at a Time by Sarah J Harris. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Relationship expert Steven Dromgool has been giving Jack Tame some tips on how to read your partner's mind. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are heaps of particles that fly in the air (apart from molecules of Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide, of course). For instance, sea-salt is a biggie near the coast. Others are smoke from bush fires, soot, pollutants, dust. You name it and it flies.  We all know about birds, insects, flying fish and sugar gliders, flying squirrels and such critters, plant seeds and helicopter seeds from ma...

Dr Bryan Betty has been speaking to Jack Tame about COPD – Chronic Obstructive Airways disease or Emphysema. He's s GP, Medical Director for the College of GPs, and member of the Covid-19 advisory committee.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The world of podcasting has given a voice to some pretty niche communities. When Aussies Mandy Hose and Kate Jones started their show Too Peas in a Podcast, they had an extremely specific community in mind: parents of multiples, and kids with additional needs.  They’d met, and bonded, a decade before over their crazy lives as mums to twins with disabilities.   But what they found was a community f...

It's never been a better time for a weekend of screentime, and Tara Ward has some tips:The Defeated: Historical drama set in post war Germany. Max McLaughlin is an American cop who arrives in Berlin in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the war (Netflix)  Clickbait: a tense thriller about when family man Nick Brewer is abducted in a crime with a sinister o...

Apple's internet tax may be in jeopardy   One of the conditions for having an app on Apple's App Store was that you must use their payments service where they take up to 30% of your income. You can't even email users with data you've collected from users using your app promoting a different payment method.. that's about to change.  A class action lawsuit from US app developers has won a $100 milli...

LOCKDOWN ONE BOWL CHEESY HAM & EGG BAKE  This is a one bowl winner of a lunch! It’s a crustless pie that the whole family will love. Serves 4  1 ½ cups milk   3 large eggs  200g shaved ham, diced   1 medium onion, diced fine or grated   1 cup grated cheese  ½ cup plain flour   1 teaspoon baking powder  2 teaspoons powdered vegetable or chicken stock   ¼ teaspoon black pepper   ¼ cup chopped parsle...

Francesca Rudkin has some movies to watch at your house this weekend: Vacation Friends on Disney+, Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed on Netflix. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yesterday we learned Chris Cairns suffered a stroke during life-saving surgery, and now has paralysis in his legs. Kevin Milne has been talking to Jack Tame about the news.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s the right decision to extend the lockdown for the whole country. It sucks. But we simply don’t have enough people vaccinated to expose our health system any more cases than we already are. To me, what’s interesting about the daily stats is the Covid-19 case numbers versus hospitalisations. This Delta outbreak totals 347 people according to the latest figures. 19 of those people are in hospita...

Remember when we could move around the country to our heart's desire? Well when that was a thing, our resident traveller Mike Yardley had some fun in Napier. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lorde’s third album Solar Power is out today, and our music reviewer Estelle Clifford has been in possession of something that all music fans want: a special early copy of the album. She's been telling Jack Tame what she thinks. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Escapees from the Garden  There are quite a number of plants that have become “pests” due to garden escapes. You’ve probably heard of them: Mexican Daisy, Bear’s breeches, Agapanthus, Clematis species, esp. vitalba (Old man’s Beard!).  www.weedbusters.org .nz has a heap of them on their website PLUS: alternatives you can plant (“plant me instead”).  I am aware that not all “weeds” behave like “wee...

Book reviewer Catherine Raynes has been reading The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz and All Her Fault by Andrea Mara. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Green kids in lockdown Lockdown is a special time - It can be an opportunity to reevaluate what’s important. There are plenty of eco habits we could start, and it’s a special time to spend with the kids.   We are going to look at some fun and educational games, projects to do with the kids.   Kumara in a jar  You can grow beautiful green vines anywhere you want them, and any time of year.    You n...

We all know interest rates were about to skyrocket, but lockdown could change that. Enable Me's Hannah McQueen has been talking to Jack Tame about what to do if you were abotu to re-fix your mortgage. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Little breakfast sesame bread rolls   To get us through lockdown, here’s a recipe for baking soft, fluffy, yeasty deliciousness every time!   Makes 12 small rolls   1 cup warm water  1 teaspoon active dried yeast granules  1 teaspoon honey or sugar  4–5 tablespoons olive oil  2½–3 cups plain or high-grade flour   1 egg, lightly beaten for egg wash  sesame or poppy seeds   Heat oven to very low, ju...

Let's face it, there's not much else to do during lockdown, so it's time to embrace some screentime. Here are Tara Ward's picks for this week:Nine Perfect Strangers: Starring Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy and based on Liane Moriarty’s best selling novel, "Nine Perfect Strangers" takes place at a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city...

Work from the virtual office  If we can't all physically be in the office together, could we all be together in a virtual meeting room instead? That's what Facebook is pitching with its new "Horizons Workplace" app which allows participants to put on their Facebook Oculus headsets and be transported to virtual reality. In the meeting you can see the 3D avatars of colleagues (who are also joining b...