Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Niva and Yotam Kay run Pakaraka Permaculture in Thames on the Coromandel Peninsula. Their mission... Accelerating the transition to a regenerative, organic and just food system. But what exactly is permaculture and how do this pair grow over 10-thousand kgs of food a season on just one-third of an acre of land? Niva and Yotam chat to Jack Tame about getting their hands dirty for future generations.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you’re a gardener you’ll know that once courgettes start fruiting, they don’t know when to stop and lovely little courgettes can turn into clumsy marrows over lunchtime! So, to use up surplus I urge you to bake this cake – it’s divine.Makes 20cm cake2 tablespoon fine ground polenta (can use ground almonds)130g butter, softened100g sugar2 eggs130g flour1 tsp baking powder½ tsp baking soda1 cup grated courgette (about 2-3 courgettes, squeeze some of juice out½ cup raisins½ cup ripe peach or nectarine slices to serve1. Heat oven to 180C fan. Grease and line 20cm round cake and dust with polenta.2. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time beating thoroughly in between. Fold in flour, baking powder, baking soda, courgette and raisins and mix to combine. Scrape into tin and bake for 30-40 mins or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool.3. Ice (or not) and serve with sliced fresh peaches or nectarines.Drizzly cream cheese icing1 cup cream cheese1 cup icing sugar1 tsp vanillaB

Movie reviewer Chris Schulz give his hot takes on Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart and American biographical film, Through the Eyes of Tammy Faye. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Milne tells Jack Tame that he's found his new favourite collective noun.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was a summer holiday on borrowed time.You’ve gotta admit, it’s pretty remarkable we made it this far without Omicron sweeping through. New Zealand enjoyed Christmas without widespread community transmission. Despite DJ Dimension, we made it through the New Year and most of January. But I think we can all see the end is nigh. It’s quite feasible that by this time next week, our Omicron daily case numbers will be in the thousands.Timing is everything in the Covid-19 response. In December, opposition MPs wanted the borders opened to people travelling from so-called low-risk countries, including Australia, so long as they’d had two vaccinations, tested negative before travelling, and were prepared to isolate at home. You can only imagine how much faster the new variant would have been circling here.All up, the hesitance to relax border restrictions probably bought us six weeks. Time for summer holidays, sure, but time also for a lot of Kiwis to receive their booster jabs.Unfortunately, I’m not one of them. Bec

Mike Yardley has got your road trip stops sorted for Selwyn's Great Alpine Highway - the route between Canterbury and the West Coast.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our music reviewer Estelle Clifford has been having fun listening to Aussie band Lime Cordiale and British actor Idris Elba's collaborative mini-album, Cordi Elba. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Exit 45 – Ben Sanders  Marshall Grade returns in an action-packed thrill ride through the New York underworld. When a former NYPD colleague is shot dead in front of him, private investigator Marshall Grade discovers there's far more to the killing than meets the eye. Vanderbilt’s - Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our eco-man Malcolm Rands has been thinking about New Year resolutions you can actually keep that will help our planet:Each New Year many of us make grand resolutions for the coming year. What if these resolutions were actually climate friendly actions that were easy to keep?It’s not all about sacrificeSometimes we look at the activists that are doing extreme and energy draining activities and although these people need to be applauded, we don’t have to go there. Focus on the impact of your actions rather than the efforts. Some are actually very easy. change your power company or KiwiSaver , boycott an climate destroying brand and let them know why, email your MP. it’s all about the impact of these actions rather than the effortHave funThe climate emergency can keep you up at night with worrying. But we have to find friendship, love, pleasure, and laughter not just alongside our efforts on climate, but ideally as an integral part of them. The good news is that whether it’s riding a bike or attending a protest

Since we started summer (solstice on the longest day of 21st of December, last year) we’ve basically “turned the corner”. The “longest day” was not really the longest day here in Christchurch (but a few days later), but the point is that from now on our days are getting shorter – very slowly. Once we get to mid-to-late February the shortening will speed up and reach its fastest downhill trend of the year… This website shows that in nice little, interactive graphs – I love that stuff! Why bring this topic up on this radio segment? Well…nature responds quite rapidly and accurately to these changes in daylight length and especially gardeners see the effects every year. Plants are pretty good at “working” with their day-length conditions: In spring, when days get longer and soil warms up (the sun gets higher in the sky too, warming up the soil more efficiently due to the higher angle of solar radiation) most plants “wake up” from winter. Roughly: plants start to notice that around late August, early September Gro

Finance expert Hannah McQueen says to strap in as inflation is going to be a big issue this year. It’s currently sitting at almost five percent and the signs are indicating it’s going to go higher still when the next lot of figures are released next week.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ordering free COVID tests was a breezeThe US Government is offering four free at-home COVID tests to each residence and ordering them was super simple - I'd probably describe it as one of the best interactions I've ever had with a government service. To make it happen they tapped the resources of the US Postal Service. The page was effectively a checkout page, with the product already selected, the price very clearly shown as free. You just needed to add your name and address and press submit. It was really that easy. If only every service was that good! Netflix is having a rough 2022First it's annoyed customers in the US and Canada by raising prices around 11% making the basic plan $15.50 a month - which is the third time they've increased prices since 2019. They're now one of the most expensive streaming services in the market.Now the value of the company has fallen by almost a quarter in just a week. Massive content spend, increased competition and lower than expected subscriber growth is thought to be beh

Under the Vines: a charming new romantic drama about a Sydney socialite (Rebecca Gibney) and London lawyer (The Crown’s Charles Edwards) who mutually inherit a run-down vineyard in New Zealand (Wednesdays on TVNZ 1 and TVNZ OnDemand).Bloom: An Australian fantasy drama starring Bryan Brown and Jacki Weaver. A year after a devastating country flood kills five people, a new plant is discovered with the power to restore youth. This is a miracle for locals but some are prepared to kill for it (both seasons on TVNZ OnDemand).Stay Close: This British thriller is the latest Netflix adaptation of one of Harlan Coben’s bestselling novels. When Carlton Flynn vanishes 17 years to the night after Stewart Green did, it sets off a chain reaction in the lives of people connected to both men. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matthew Vaughn is a renowned Hollywood director and producer with a portfolio chocka full of cracker films such as Rocketman, Kick-Ass and the comedy classic, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He’s also directed and written the King’s Men series, which stars Ralph Fiennes and Colin Firth.   A third installment has just been released called The King’s Man. Matthew Vaughn speaks to Francesca Rudkin about his love of being involved in the King's Men series. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Movie reviewer Chris Schulz speaks to Francesca Rudkin about the House of Gucci film and another Scream installment. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The weather has been wonderfully settled for months – I’ll remember it as cloudless blue skies and 27 every day, regardless of what weather forecasters predicted, and even when it wasn’t.Traveling around the North Island over the Christmas and New Year, I noticed a relaxed Kiwi summer vibe. Maybe it was the exhilaration of being able to leave home towns and visit family and friends, maybe it was the relief another difficult year had ended – but there was a distinct feeling people were enjoying the here and now.Not even the mention of an international DJ’s walkabout with Omicron was going to dampen the mood. Nothing was going to ruin the holiday vibe. We covered our ears and sang lalalalala. There would be plenty of time to return to life, and the reality of the challenges that lie ahead, a little later on.A friend recently said to me that this summer reminded her of the Kiwi summers of her childhood – constant long hot days and balmy evenings. Were our summers always sunny and hot? I suspect it’s nostalgic an

Kevin Milne speaks to Francesca Rudkin about the hot weather over the summer break - and why that's not necessarily a good thing. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Music reviewer Estelle Clifford reminisces on her top albums of the year. Want to listen? Click the link below to a Spotify playlist of all the songs on each album.Estelle Clifford's top albums of the yearLISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Catherine’s top picks for summer Fiction: Never – Ken Follet The Lincoln Highway – Amor Towles Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reed Wish You Were Here – Jodi Picoult Non-fiction The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins – Peter Fitzsimons Windswept and Interesting – Billy Connelly  This Much I Know To Be True – Miriam Margolyes Story teller – Dave Grohl LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Yardley gives his top tips on western Southland - places like Riverton and Gemstone Beach.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.