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Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Jack Tame’s crisp perspective, style and enthusiasm makes for refreshing and entertaining Saturday morning radio on Newstalk ZB.News, sport, books, music, gardens and celebrities – what better way to spend your Saturdays?

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5:09

Ruud Kleinpaste: Lichen in your Garden

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/09/05

This is a regular complaint from gardeners: Lichen on the stems of our shrubs, trees and bark. In this case: Julie’s treasured Magnolias. It kind of makes sense as the shrub or small tree often appears to have more lichen than leaves – mostly smallish buds, not large, impressive flowers. And few leaves that often look small and somewhat discoloured. No wonder gardeners are concerned about Lichen! Here are the identified species of lichen on our Magnolia: Cartilage Lichen and Common Sunburst Lichen.

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4:57

Tara Ward: The Paper, In Flight, Bay of Fires

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/09/05

The Paper Following up on the story from "The Office," the documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch discovers a disappearing Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it with volunteer reporters. This mockumentary follows the daily lives and struggles of dreamers in love with journalism, and their less-than-competent co-workers, trying to deliver accurate news without the resources or training to do a great job (TVNZ+). In Flight Jo Conran's son is

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9:16

Francesca Rudkin: The Roses and Ice Road: Vengeance

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/09/05

The Roses Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo and Ivy: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. However, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentments soon emerge when Theo's career nosedives and Ivy's own ambitions take off. Ice Road: Vengeance A grieving American ice road trucker, Mike McCann, travels to Nepal to fulfil his late brother's final wish and scatter his ashes on Mt. Everest. There he meets Dhani, a skilled mountaineer, who agrees to guide him along

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5:29

Nici Wickes: Father's Day Traybake

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/09/05

This is the perfect thing for a Father’s Day brekky or brunch – it’s so easy and you can adapt it for your dad’s taste buds by adding bacon, chorizo, flaked smoked fish, avocado, and the rest. Serves 4 Ingredients 500g Agria potatoes, washed 1 medium onion, sliced thinly 2 tbsps. olive oil 2 tsp curry powder 1 tsp sea salt + decent grind black pepper 4 eggs Cooked bacon, chorizo, smoked fish, or avocado to serve Dad’s favourite relish or chutney to serve Parsley or chives to garnish

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4:55

Jack Tame: Reaching the point of physical limitations

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/09/05

When you’re young you can’t imagine a point in your life when you’re living with physical limitations. I mean, sure, maybe you’re not as strong as you’d like to be. Maybe you’re not quite as quick and fit as some of your mates. But for me at least, the thought of a relatively straightforward physical action being too difficult or too painful never even crossed my mind. You take health and dexterity, mobility, and general limberness for granted. I remember Dad getting home from his football games

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12:56

Lynda La Plante: Prolific crime author on 'The Scene...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/30

Lynda La Plante is the queen of crime fiction. She has 50 novels to her name and is the creator of hit TV shows like Prime Suspect, Widows, and Above Suspicion. Her works place compelling and determined women centre stage – Anna Travis, Jane Tennison, and Lorraine Page just a few of them. La Plante’s latest novel introduces a new lead detective, CSI Jessica Russell, as she brings together a team of scientists and experts to deal with a complicated and brutal crime. She joined Jack Tame to discuss

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6:24

Estelle Clifford: The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/30

The fourth studio album from Auckland-based band The Beths, ‘Straight Line Was A Lie’ explores some deeply personal topics within the band’s classic indie-rock sound. Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the band’s introspective album. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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10:36

Mike Yardley: The glittering spectacle of Hamilton...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/30

"Bobbing about on my bucket list for far too long, I’ve finally just enjoyed my first foray to heart-stealing Hamilton Island. Glamourous and gorgeous in equal measure this holiday jewel in the Whitsundays archipelago completely smashed my expectations. With an embarrassing surfeit of island vacay options in Queensland, I had assumed Hamilton Island, or Hamo as the locals call it, might just be another pleasant dime-a-dozen speck of palm-fringed sand, edging warm ocean water. "But Hamo is so much

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6:50

Dr Dougal Sutherland: Are pets as good for our...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/30

There’s a common belief that having a pet is good for one’s wellbeing. You often hear stories about how looking into a dog’s eyes gives you an emotional boost or that using real and fake animals in rest homes boosts residents’ moods, but it turns out it’s not a guaranteed path to better mental health – reality is more nuanced. Some studies do find that pet owners report lower anxiety and loneliness, and greater life satisfaction. However, other studies show no significant difference, and some have

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4:04

Catherine Raynes: Manhattan Down and The Cut Throat...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/30

Manhattan Down by Michael Cordy On the anniversary eve of the 9/11 terror attack, New York swelters under a heat dome of record temperatures. Even the global leaders assembled at the UN HQ are forced to admit that the climate crisis has reached boiling point and the world's time is running out. That same day, at precisely 5-25 p.m., everyone on Manhattan Island - every man, woman and child, including all the world leaders at the UN - falls unconscious. Everyone that is, except for Samantha Rossi,

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117:11

Full Show Podcast: 30 August 2025

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/30

On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 30 August 2025, the grand dame of crime fiction, Lynda La Plante joins Jack to discuss how her characters fit in the modern world of publishing and her new book ‘Scene of the Crime’. Jack weighs up the balance between transparency, trust, and the public service. As thoughts turn towards summer, travel correspondent Mike Yardley explores Hamilton Island and the Whitsundays. Tech expert Paul Stenhouse explains the use of AI in the

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6:11

Bryan Betty: Iron Deficiencies

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/30

Iron deficiencies are an important but often hidden issue – the most common mineral deficiency in the world. Not having enough iron in the body can lead to a range of health problems. Why is iron so important in the body? It’s important for making red blood cells in our blood, which carries oxygen around the body. If we don’t have enough iron, we don’t produce enough red blood cells – we call this anaemia. It’s also important for the immune system and growth and development in children. How

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6:15

Paul Stenhouse: US 911 call centres turn to AI for...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/29

Understaffed 911 call centres are turning to AI to help 911 callers come with some of the most urgent and serious issues, most of the time. But people also, stupidly, call 911 for noise complaints, lost wallets, and more. People see 911 as the way to reach the police. This means the operators are run off their feet dealing with all sorts of nonsense. Now there's a startup training its AI agents on 911 calls to help triage and get humans on the more important calls. It's being used in around a

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6:00

Tara Ward: Atomic, King & Conqueror, Hostage

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/29

Atomic Two civilians get caught up in a cartel's uranium smuggling across North Africa. Facing a nuclear threat, they must decide whether to save themselves or stop the bomb delivery while evading agencies and traffickers (TVNZ+). King & Conqueror In the mid-11th century, noblemen Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy are exploited as pawns in royal plots on both side of the Channel. The coronation of King Edward in England leads to the pair's first encounter. Harold warns his father, Earl

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4:00

Ruud Kleinpaste: How we plan our garden

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/29

The Courier smiled as he deposited the two catalogues on our door-step – he knows we’re Nature Nerds, and so do the lovely folk at Kings Seeds. We both settled in front of the fireplace, going through the Nurture/Nourish reading. I was checking all the tomato varieties and other food delicacies, while Juuls browsed all the pretty stuff in Kings Seeds line-up. Always interesting to see how two people focus on the plant species that is close to their Heart, Art, and Stomach! I kept my Tomato wishes

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7:38

Francesca Rudkin: Caught Stealing and The Thursday...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/29

Caught Stealing When his punk-rock neighbour asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, New York City bartender Hank Thompson suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters who all want a piece of him. The Thursday Murder Club Four retirees spend their time solving cold case murders for fun, but their casual sleuthing takes a thrilling turn when they find themselves with a real whodunit on their hands. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for

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5:43

Nici Wickes: Cold lunch inspiration and Soba noodles...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/29

This is surely the quickest dinner at under 15 minutes from start to finish and you can serve it hold or cold! Serves 2 Ingredients 160g dried soba noodles 2-3 cups good quality vegetable stock 150-200g fresh NZ salmon, 3cm cubed 2-4 stalks broccolini, halved lengthwise ½ cup snow peas, halved lengthwise 1 teaspoon sesame oil Black or white sesame seeds to serve Wedges of lime or lemon to serve Salt to season ¼-1/2 teaspoon minced chilli to serve (optional) Method In a medium pot,

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6:22

Jack Tame: The Reserve Bank's mistake was trying to...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/29

Whether it’s the government, international organisations, higher education, or the media, one of the defining dynamics of the social media age is the deteriorating trust in public institutions. It’s extraordinary, really. At a time when humans are on the whole wealthier, healthier, and more dominant than at any other time in our species’ history, we’re more distrustful of the institutions that are supposed to serve us. Saturday Mornings is usually a monetary policy-free zone, and I promise to mostly

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14:39

Don McGlashan: NZ music legend on his first ever live...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/23

A true New Zealand music legend, Don McGlashan has written some of our most-loved tunes. From ‘Anchor Me’ in his time with the Mutton Birds, through to his incredible work as a solo artist and his compositions for film and television. In 2023 McGlashan went on a very special tour around New Zealand, and off the back he’s released his first solo live album – ‘Take It To The Bridge’. Although he’s been part of the making of a dozen or more studio albums, McGlashan confessed to Jack Tame that he was

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10:14

Mike Yardley: Flavours of the Sunshine Coast

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/08/23

"The Sunshine Coast’s sparkling reputation as a powerhouse of premium local produce continues to raise the bar. Brimming with over 900 food and drink producers, grazing from this constantly replenished larder of goodness helps underpin the region’s bragging rights as holiday heaven. I’m just back from a fresh dip with the Sunshine Coast, after indulgently noshing and sipping my way around her beachfront and hinterland hotspots." Read Mike's full article here. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener

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