Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Green sun safety  With the high temperatures of the past week, we've all been flocking to the beach. But what are the most environmentally-friendly ways to keep sun safe at the beach? First off, stay out of the sun between 10am-4pm, September to April. The beach is wonderful early in the morning or late afternoon. If you’re at the beach outside of these times, sun shades you put up are a good idea. Make sure you get a good one, not a cheap throw away.  If you need more protection, you'll be slapping on the sunscreen. But which kind? There are two varieties: chemical and physical. Chemical sunscreen absorbs UV light to prevent it from causing damage. But the chemicals; like oxybenzone, octinoxate, octocrylene, octisalate, avobenzone and homosalate, have been identified as being particularly dangerous for eco-systems. There's evidence they have been making coral more susceptible to bleaching, deforming baby coral and degrading its resilience to climate change. Hawaii is now looking at banning these chemicals. T

Screentime Queen Tara Ward has some picks for this weekend. It’s a Sin: Five 18-year-olds move to London in 1981, where they all meet and form a gang and move into a flat together. They begin exploring their identities and become who they truly are, but a distant disease threatens their future (TVNZ OnDemand).  Critical:  Inside a major trauma centre, top surgeons work to save the critically injured and seriously ill in this British drama from Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio. Shot in real time, in a world where every second counts, life and death sits on a knife's edge (TVNZ OnDemand).   Blown Away: a new series of the gentle reality show about glassmakers competing to blow away the competition (Netflix) LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2020 took Aussie-born actor Simon Baker from a life in Hollywood, where he’s best known for his starring role in TV series The Mentalist, to laying low with his family at his second home on Sydney’s Bronte Beach.  The move also meant he took a break from the US, coming home to star in Higher Ground which a movie that’s being described as an Aussie version of a Western.   He plays Travis, a former cop who left the Northern Territory after his superiors covered up a massacre of Aboriginal people that left all but a little boy dead.   He's been speaking to Jack Tame about the impact the movie had on him as an Australian.  LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Portuguese Piri Piri Chicken  Few countries do BBQ better than the Portuguese with their frango piri piri, chicken cooked over the coals with a spicy lemony sauce to go with it is just the best!  Seves 4-6   1.5 kg whole butterflied chicken 1 bunch thyme 2 lemons, halved 4 potatoes, boiled and cut into wedges  Piri piri marinade  100g melted butter  3 red chillies, seeds discard and roughly chopped 4 garlic cloves, crushed with 1 tsp salt  2 teaspoons smoked paprika  1 tablespoon sherry or red wine vinegar 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 bay leaf ½ cup olive oil To make the piri piri marinade, simmer the ingredients together in a small pot or pan. Allow to cool.at chicken dry with paper towel. Score breasts and thighs with a sharp knife. Rub marinade all over and into the cuts and place in a large shallow dish. Cover and refrigerate overnight if you can,  removing from the fridge 30 minutes before cooking. If you can’t do this stage, not to worry! Heat barbecue to high. Place the chicken, skin-side down, and cook

With some schools back next week, Kevin Milne's been thinking about sending his kids to school for the first time. Forget the kids, they'll be fine, he's got some tips for parents. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A few years ago, I asked my Grandad about his impressions from when he first set foot in New Zealand. It was the mid-1960s. He’d sailed from the U.K with his wife and two boys on an Italian liner, when they drew up and docked in Auckland. Together, the Tame family went for a look up Queen Street.  ‘It was horrible!’ said my Grandad. ‘Just awful. We couldn’t wait to get out of the place.’ His midlands accent added an additional level of disgust at the state of Queen Street, back then. And needless to say it was all he could do to get on a train and make his way to the South Island. Queen Street must have been really bad. He’s held onto a grudge for almost sixty years and as far as I know, he’s never been back since.But to be fair to my Grandad, when was the last time you heard someone gushing with compliments for Queen Street? When was the last time you heard someone say, ‘Queen Street’s amazing! It has all the buzz and intrigue of a street befitting the centre of our biggest city!’.The Herald is reporting thi

Music reviewer Estelle Clifford has been listening to the new album from L.A.B.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Catherine Raynes joins Jack Tame to share her book picks of the week.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Relationships expert Steven Dromgool joins Jack Tame to share his advice on managing a money hangover.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gardening expert Ruud Kleinpaste joins Jack Tame to talk about Monarch Butterflies.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rubbing shoulders with the bountiful fruit-bowl of Cromwell, sliced only by the Kawarau River and its confluence with the Clutha, Bannockburn beckons as a banger of a destination in its own right. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paul Stenhouse joins Jack Tame on Newstalk ZB to talk about the big tech stories making the news this week.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can't decide what TV shows you should be watching? TV critic Tara Ward joins Jack Tame to gives us her top picks for your viewing pleasure! LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Unity. Joe Biden, in his first official speech as the 46th President of the United States, says the thing he wants to do, perhaps more than anything else, is restore a sense of unity in the United States. But in watching everything over the last few months, from Trump’s denial of the election results to the riot at the capitol building, and in reflecting on Trump’s full term in office, I think there are two issues that require immediate attention if Americans are to be unified again.  The first, is the massive slab of Americans whose working dignity and standard of living have been eroded over the last thirty years.  It’s a natural expectations for all human beings that we will have a slightly higher standard of living than our parents’ generation. Just think about how your parents lived, the things they considered luxurious that perhaps we take for granted. How often would your parents have money to eat at a cafe? Would they have travelled much overseas? Progress happens slowly, and we often don’t notice it

In her book Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong, Elizabeth Day brings together all the lessons she has learned, from conversations with the guests on her award-winning How to Fail podcast, from stories shared with her by readers and listeners, and from her own life, and distils them into seven principles of failure.She joined Jack Tame on the show this morning.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former broadcaster Kevin Milne joins Jack Tame to talk about a special 50 year reunion he attended during the holidays.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Film reviewer and Newstalk ZB host Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to share her movie pick of the week, Penguin Bloom and Sylvie's Love.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nici Wickes joins Jack Tame to share her caramelised nectarines with homemade yoghurt curd recipe.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Music reviewer Estelle Clifford has been listening to Delta Goodrem's surprise Christmas album.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Catherine Raynes has some picks for sumer reading:Fiction The Evening and the Morning - Ken Follett A Tine for Mercy - John Grisham  The searcher- Tana French This Tender Land - William Kent Kreuger Non- Fiction Bella - Annabel Langbien No Time Like the Future - Michael J Fox Troy - Stephen Fry A Promised Land - Barack Obama Searching for Charlie - Tom Scott  LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.