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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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8:33

Kevin Milne: Tough trading and the loss of iconic...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/26

Times are tough, many businesses unable to survive the cost of living crisis and downturned economy. Cultural institutions and smaller businesses alike are closing up shop, and Kevin Milne is dismayed by the loss of Kiwi enterprises. One in particular, the colourful Matakana ceramics firm Morris & James, is particularly saddening for him. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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6:06

Lisa Dudson: KiwiSaver hardship withdrawals - impacts...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/26

The number of Kiwis making withdrawals from their KiwiSaver due to hardship is on the rise. In the year to June, more than 50,000 were made, compared to 18,000 five years ago. Early withdrawals can have compounding effects on someone’s financial future – so what other options are there? Lisa Dudson joined Jack Tame to delve into the topic and offer up some other ideas. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:30

Ruud Kleinpaste: More brilliant bugs with fabulous jobs

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/26

Last week we started to look at the jobs bugs do on Earth. This topic was launched by some teachers during the Blake Inspire sessions, out there in Nature. It became a bit of a game to question what their role is in ecological systems – especially critters that are usually perceived as a pain in the bum. Gardeners often complain about almost every creature that inhabits the soil; holes and tunnels, little hills of clay, and messy poos in vegetable gardens, lawns, and orchards are often not seen as

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3:47

Oskar Howell: Fonterra's On Farm Services incentive...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/26

What's the news? Fonterra has announced an On Farm Services incentive programme for qualifying farmer-shareholders. The scheme allows farmers who meet their cooperative difference standard, a baseline performance and efficiency standard, to receive what is effectively a $1,500 yearly subsidy to invest in on-farm technology or services. Ranges from animal performance tools from genetics companies, as well as pasture and data optimisation tools, and on-farm planting to improve carbon sequestration.

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4:29

Tara Ward: Washington Black, The Game, The Hunting Wives

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/25

Washington Black Follows the 19th century adventures of George Washington "Wash" Black, an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a gruesome death threatens to turn his life upside down (Disney+). The Game Detective Huw Miller is haunted by one case he failed to solve. As he settles into retirement, he suddenly thinks he has found the elusive killer in the shape of his new neighbour Patrick Harbottle (ThreeNow). The Hunting Wives Sophie trades city life for East

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6:07

Nici Wickes: Tamarillo Custard Cake

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/25

There’s no other way to say it – this cake is magical! The way the simple batter settles into layers of custard and sponge seems impossible and yet it works, and the tamarillos are all tart and jammy and YUM. Ingredients 3 large eggs, room temp 2/3 cup sugar 90g butter, melted 1 ½ cups milk, lukewarm 1 tbsp vanilla extract Generous 1/2 cup plain flour 1 ½ cups scooped and chopped tamarillos (about XX) Icing sugar for dusting cake Whipped cream or yoghurt to serve Method Preheat oven

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8:01

Francesca Rudkin: The Fantastic Four: First Steps and...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/25

The Fantastic Four: First Steps Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer. Four Letters of Love Nicholas and Isabel are made for each other, but as destiny pulls them together, family, passion and faith drives them apart. As they embark on journeys of heartache and misplaced love, fate soon contrives to pull the threads of their lives together

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4:54

Jack Tame: The Coldplay kiss cam and what it reveals...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/25

In the end it was only a matter of time. It took a day or two of virality for the CEO caught cheating in the now truly infamous Coldplay kiss cam to publicly announce his departure from the company. I’m frankly surprised it took much longer for the woman caught canoodling in his arms to do the same thing. She was, after all, the Chief People Officer for the same company. On top of what I can only imagine is a personal calamity, the incident strikes me as a fairly grave professional conflict of

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14:53

Luke Millar: Wētā FX Visual Effects Supervisor on...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/19

Who else could pull off the animal transformation of one of the world’s biggest rockstars but Wētā FX? Wētā is well known for its visual effects mastery, and so when Robbie Williams said “make me an ape!”, it’s only natural that they were the ones for the job. The man responsible for Williams’ simian visage in Better Man was Visual Effects Supervisor Luke Millar, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work. A visual effects supervisor is responsible for coordinating all the different elements that

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6:42

Estelle Clifford: Polar Extremes - Strange Visions 1

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/19

Written over the course of twenty years, from 1993 to 2019, 'Strange Visions 1' details the apocalypse in a sci-fi infused, post-modern satirical manner. It’s the work of underground artist, producer and engineer Quaint, part one of a project called 'Polar Extremes'. Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the album. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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8:24

Mike Yardley: Adventures in Windermere & the UK's...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/19

"It’s undoubtedly Britain’s equivalent to our Queenstown Lakes district. Windermere and the Lake District is England’s favourite national park, a sprawling tourist honeypot that stretches across hundreds of square kilometres of rugged Cumbrian countryside, woodland valleys, shimmering tarns and lakes – all backed by strikingly craggy mountains. It was the 18th century Romantic poets who captured the world’s imagination, igniting the region’s first tourism wave. Since then, the stature of the Lake

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7:54

Dougal Sutherland: Prosopagnosia or face-blindness

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/19

While we all have difficulty remembering and placing faces sometimes, some people are unable to do it altogether. Prosopagnosia, otherwise known as face-blindness, is a psychological condition that renders people unable to recognise faces – sometimes including their own. Dr Dougal Sutherland joined Jack Tame to delve into this rare condition. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:29

Catherine Raynes: Polkinghorne and Broke Road

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/19

Polkinghorne by Steve Braunias In Polkinghorne, literary journalist Steve Braunias takes readers on an extraordinary and often chilling journey through the most high-profile murder case in modern New Zealand history. With unparalleled access to the key players, Braunias offers readers his unique insight into the investigation, the trial and the astonishing revelations that kept the New Zealand public utterly transfixed. The death of Pauline Hanna in her home in Remuera, and the arrest of her

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3:22

Ruud Kleinpaste: A short synopsis of the jobs...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/19

Just spent a week with 30 teachers in various environmental locations of Auckland. The Sir Peter Blake Trust do this every year under the umbrella of BLAKE Inspire. Learning outside is part of the curriculum: water quality, Matauranga Māori, rockpools, school gardens (with pigs etc), climate change, StarDome, political policy simulation, corporate sustainability, and good, old nature nerd stuff in forests and reserves. Often the question comes up: what good do Mosquitoes do? And beetles? And

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117:48

Full Show Podcast: 19 July 2025

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/19

On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for 19 July 2025, Oscar-nominated visual effects artist at Wētā FX, Luke Millar joins Jack to discuss just how he turned one of the world's biggest pop stars into a chimpanzee for the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man. Plus, Millar shares his insight on AI's role within filmmaking. Jack pays tribute to the legendary Fat Freddy's Drop producer Chris Faiumu. Kevin Milne tells of his attempt to forge a pop music career with the help of the Fat

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7:17

Bryan Betty: Wegovy, weightloss drugs, and obesity

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/19

A new weightloss medication is now available in New Zealand – accessible on a private, nonsubsidised script. Dr Bryan Betty joined Jack Tame to discuss Wegovy – what it is, how you use it, the side effects, and why people are seeking medical treatment for their weight. What is Wegovy? A once-weekly injection for weight loss known as a ‘GP-1 agonist’. It mimics a hormone in the gut that reduces our desire to eat and controls sugar in the blood. Developed originally for diabetes but found to help

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6:49

Kevin Milne: The excessive costs of weddings

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/19

Weddings aren’t cheap – well, most of the time. In New Zealand, the average wedding costs between $35,000 - $45,000, but depending on your tastes and needs, it can grow much higher. The recent wedding between Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez cost somewhere between $20 million and $50 million USD – roughly 200 times more than what the average Kiwi spends. However, one columnist points out that compared to their wealth, Bezos and Sanchez actually spent quite little. So Kevin Milne is wondering, is it

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5:45

Paul Stenhouse: Evolution in AI technology,...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/18

ChatGPT is ready to take on more involved tasks Agents are the next phase of the AI evolution, in which the AI can go away and can complete multistep tasks on its own. So, you could give it a bunch of information —PDFs, emails, spreadsheets— and ask it to find the narrative or insights and create a PowerPoint. It'll then go away, do it, and let you know when it's done. There's less hand holding and more 'reasoning' from the AI. It can also browse the web for you and take actions in the browser on

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5:11

Tara Ward: Untamed, Sneaky Pete, Game On

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/18

Untamed In the vast expanse of Yosemite National Park, a woman's death draws a federal agent into lawless terrain, where nature obeys no rules but its own (Netflix). Sneaky Pete Marius, a fraudster, finds himself followed by a dangerous criminal whom he once robbed. Soon, he disguises himself as Pete, his cellmate from the past, for safety (Netflix). Game On NZ Netball legends return for a high-stakes tournament, battling international stars to prove they've still got it. But they won't do it

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7:59

Francesca Rudkin: Grace: A Prayer for Peace and...

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame ·

2025/07/18

Grace: A Prayer for Peace Artist Robin White (Ngāti Awa) has spent more than five decades creating work which ranges from iconic New Zealand landscapes to collaborative tapa cloth. Grace: A Prayer for Peace, directed by Gaylene Preston, traces White’s evolution as an artist, and her creative response to the world around her. Filmed in Aotearoa, Japan and Kiribati, the documentary follows her working with collaborators and reflecting on what drives her creativity. Grace offers a meditation on

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