Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Catherine Field has been reading Three Weddings and a Proposal by Shelia O'Flanagan, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Relationship expert Steven Dromgool's been giving Jack Tame some tips for helping a partner with anxiety. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fruit tree maintenance  Here are a few quick-fire ideas to get the best out of your fruit trees in the future… and it all starts by planting (and some pruning) in the winter!  1) Do your home work – select tree varieties you actually like to eat! (or like the look of – blossom?)  2) Buy good stock from good nurseries and check if they need specific pollinators (ie Plums!!)  3) Dig your holes in th...

Lawmakers want to take away the surprises from subscriptions  Everything is a subscription these days and companies have made it very easy (and appealing!) to sign up for a trial, only to then sign you up at full price without a reminder. A group of bi-oartisian US lawmakers want to change that. The Unsubscribe Act does it in a couple of ways: + it would require sellers to allow customers to cance...

A whole generation of parents have turned to Steve Biddulph for parenting advice.  The author of classic books Raising Boys and Raising girls as well as around a dozen other parenting titles. He’s described as one of the world’s best-known parent educators.   After a career of helping us raise kids, Steve’s turned his hand to helping the rest of us, with a new book “Fully Human”. It's billed as ‘a...

Pear, blue cheese & walnut tart   Pears pair with tangy blue cheese and honeyed walnuts in this gorgeous tart. Makes 26cm tart   Pastry   200g wholemeal flour   100g chilled butter  ½ teaspoon salt   6 tablespoons ice cold  water   2-3 pears   2 tablespoons butter   ½ cup brown sugar   3 heaped tablespoons cream cheese   75g crumbled blue cheese (I used Kapiti creamy blue)  3 tbsp walnuts, roughly...

New figures around rental costs released were released this week - and its bad news for renters. Kevin Milne's been talking to Jack Tame about where they leave those who can't afford a house. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Winston Peters has ended his long-running media hiatus by appearing on Australian morning TV and giving the vaccine rollout in New Zealand a bit of a kicking. It’s been too slow, he says. Easy to criticise when you’re out of government of course, but is that fair? I think it’s worth considering a really basic question: What was the primary aim for New Zealand’s vaccine rollout? Was the aim to safe...

Travel writer Mike Yardley has been checking out three great Wellington neighbourhoods; Thorndon, Newtown and Lyall Bay. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Music reviewer Estelle Clifford has been listen to new music from twin-sister pop group The Veronincas. Their new album is Godzilla, and it's their first since 2014 and follows a whole lot of personal drama. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Catherie Raynes has been reading Australian thriller Still by Matt Nable; and a true-life account of the rise and fall of media mogul Robert Maxwell, Fall by John Preston.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Busting supermarket myths    Most of us believe certain things about the cleaning products we buy, but they’ve actually been planted in our heads by years of advertising.   So let’s bust some of those myths.   Myth 1: The best shampoos, toothpastes and dish liquids foam well. In many cases scientists figure out how to do something, then make a feature out of it. Lots of research has gone into foam...

Bob Campbell's wine pick for this week is the Church Road 2020 Chardonnay, Hawke’s Bay $14.99 (on special).LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apple's new features for 2021 have been announced at their developer conference. Apple is coming after Zoom Lots of big changes to the Facetime app, including the ability to schedule FaceTime for meetings. You can share the link with folks using Windows PCs and Android devices too and they can join through their browser - which is a big deal for Apple.  They're leaning into make FaceTime more frie...

Time: Sean Bean and Stephen Graham star in this gritty British drama by Jimmy McGovern about a husband, teacher and father who is sentenced to four years in prison after accidentally killing a man. Consumed by guilt, Mark openly accepts his sentence but is quickly confronted with the harsh realities of life inside (Prime, Saturdays at 9.30pm).  Domina: a new historical drama. In the wake of Julius...

The latest Marvel installment isn't a mega-budget movie - this time it's a miniseries.   If Marvel is your thing, this is charismatic villain Loki played by Tom Hiddleston, getting his very own series, and it's streaming on Disney Plus.   The series is being directed by Kate Herron, who’s been one of Forbes’ 30 under 30, and described as a huge comedy voice in the years to come". She describes her...

Kevin Milne's been pondering what the best fit for Air New Zealand's in-flight snacks might be. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I’m not a fortune teller. I don’t have a five-year plan. I can’t tell you what I’ll eat for dinner tonight, let alone anything I’ll be doing in two years’ time.   But I can tell you right now with a very strong degree of confidence I will not be paying $21 to go to They Are Us, the film that apparently focuses on Jacinda Ardern’s response to the Christchurch massacre.     I have nothing personal a...

This is new music from Crowded House, from their seventh studio album Dreamers are Waiting. It sees them reuniting with producer Mitchell Froom for the first time since 1991.  Estelle Clifford has been taking a listen and have Jack Tame her thoughts on the album. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz This is not just another novel about a dead girl.  When she arrived in New York on her 18th birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee was looking for a fresh start. Now, just one month later, she is the city's latest Jane Doe, an unidentified murder victim.  Ruby Jones is also trying to start over; she travelled halfway aro...

Steven Dromgool offers some advice for women on what to look out for when dating men. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Grass grub have always been a “problem” in NZ gardens and lawns. They are c-shaped grubs that live underground, feeding on roots of grasses and other plants/shrubs. There are a number of species in the Beetle Family Scarabeidae (scarab beetles), but the native grass grub, Costelytra zealandica has always been in NZ. It’s traditional habitat and host plants were native grasses, such as tussocks, an...

The programme will be rolling out across the country by the end of the year. The idea is to to detect the early signs of changes in the bowel which could indicate bowel cancer.  Bryan Betty is a GP and medical director for the College of GPs, he’s also on the Covid-19 advisory committee and he talked Jack Tame through the ins and outs of the initiative.   LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener f...

Twitter's subscription service has launched  The $3 a month service is starting in Australia and Canada.   It comes with an "undo Tweet" feature (which really just delays the posting of your Tweet for 30 seconds), a more robust bookmarking feature for saving tweets and a "reader mode" to make threads of Tweets easier to read. These features feel more like evolutions of the core product, rather tha...

Too Close: Emily Watson stars as a forensic psychiatrist who has to assess a woman accused of a heinous crime, who claims she can't remember a thing (UKTV, Mondays).  Bump: From the team behind Love My Way comes Bump. The series centres around Oly, an ambitious and high-achieving teenager who has a surprise baby; and the complications that ensue for two families (Monday on Vibe/Sky Go, Neon 13 Jun...