Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

The first of Snow Patrol’s 2 Reworked EPs, ‘Reworked EP1’ has been released.
The band announced on their social media channels last month they have been in the studio over the last few months and are releasing a new track ahead of more music later this year, celebrating the 25th anniversary since Snow Patrol formed.
Andrew Dickens joined Jack tame to share his opinion on the album.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE

The Knife - Jo NesboHarry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel–the only woman he’s ever loved–has ended it with him, permanently. He’s been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but it’s in the cold case office, when what he really wants is to be investigating cases he suspects have ties to Svein Finne, the serial rapist and murderer who Harry helped put behind bars. And now, Finne is free after a decade-plus in prison–free, and Harry is certain, unreformed and ready to take up where he left off. But things will get worse. When Harry wakes up the morning after a blackout, drunken night with blood that’s clearly not his own on his hands, it’s only the very beginning of what will be a waking nightmare the likes of which even he could never have imagined.Evie Drake Starts Over - Linda HolmesFrom the host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast comes a heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman who’s lost her husband and a major league pitcher who’s lost his game.In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesn’t correct them.Meanwhile, in New York City, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andy’s childhood best friend, is wrestling with what miserable athletes living out their worst nightmares call the “yips”: he can’t throw straight anymore, and, even worse, he can’t figure out why. As the media storm heats up, an invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on Dean’s future.When he moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie’s house, the two make a deal: Dean won’t ask about Evvie’s late husband, and Evvie won’t ask about Dean’s baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken—and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. To move forward, Evvie and Dean will have to reckon with their pasts—the friendships they’ve damaged, the secrets they’ve kept—but in life, as in baseball, there’s always a chance—up until the last out.A joyful, hilarious, and hope-filled debut, Evvie Drake Starts Over will have you cheering for the two most unlikely comebacks of the year—and will leave you wanting more from Linda Holmes.
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Mike Yardley's got some tips for Stockholm.
He joined Jack Tame to share his travelling secrets for this Scandinavian city!LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE

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Relationship counsellor Steven Dromgool's given Jack some hints on how to start resolving that perpetual argument you have with your partner.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE

It’s slowly starting to become that time again: planting new crops for spring!
Two options:
1) go to garden centre and buy a punnet of seedlings (6, or 8, sometimes dozens of plants in a shallow pot
2) buy a packet of seeds and sow your own
Advantages of punnets: already sprouted and sometimes a few weeks old – simply transplant in some good soil and things should be going well. Plants have established root systems and are ready to transplant.
Cost around $3 - $6 per punnet
Advantage of seed packets: their price! For $3 to $5 you get dozens if not hundreds of seeds that you can use for quite a few years; viability varies according to what species we’re talking about. Often the use-by date can in practice be extended for quite a few years.
Some crops you can not transplant without damaging their roots: carrots, parsnips are really “touchy” when the soil is removed from their roots – best to sow them in situ and carefully thin them out when they have grown up as small seedlings (aim for 10-15 cm apart in the row)
Some other things to remember when you sow seeds:
 1) Make sure your pots are cleaned and disinfected! A group of fungal diseases, known in the trade as “Damping Off” can infect germinating seed and small seedlings and spread very rapidly through all the plants you’re trying to grow – you’ll basically lose the lot in one container.
2) Use good seed-raising mix from a reputable supplier; it is sterile in terms of fungal pathogens and generally the right mix with the right drainage-characteristics. It should not contain fertilisers, as seeds use their own “food stores” inside the seed to grow for the first week or so.
3) follow the instructions on the seed packet in terms of depth of seed sowing and temperature requirements to assist with germination. Many seeds should hardly be “buried” at all – a good rule of thumb is: as deep as the diameter of the seed itself – in some case no more than a millimetre or so!
4) Overheating is not good and a bright spot (on the window sill with direct, hot sunlight) is often too much of a good thing as well. Until the first true leaves are formed, a seedling doesn’t really need any light at all! Think of a moderately warm hot water cylinder cupboard.
5) when a seedling has a few true leaves (after the small “cotyledons” that come out of the seed first) it can be “hardened off” by exposing it too the cooler outdoor temperatures of  spring transplanted; it varies from species to species as to how much exposure it can handle, but you’ll find out soon enough: just take it easy!
6) Transplanting into a new, larger container or even direct into the soil is generally possible when chances of (severe) frost are almost zero… Best practice is to pick the seedling up by the cotyledons (not by the stem or the root-ball) and carefully loosen the seed-raising mix so it comes out with still some mix attached to the roots. Plant the new, tender seedling by carefully compacting the soil around its roots in the new location.
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We makes lots of financial decisions on the assumption that we will continue to earn and have similar expenses for a set period. Which is fine – until it isn’t.
Divorce, illness, injury, being widowed, redundancy, triplets (!) – can upset the apple cart completely.
So how can you plan for such events, and how can you recover from one you weren’t prepared for?
Financial consultant Hannah McQueen shares her insights with Jack Tame.
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We’re going into iPhone season so the rumors are in full swing..
The big question is when will the new iPhone lineup be announced? History will tell us it’s usually the first Wednesday or Thursday of September — and the geeks have been digging into the test versions of their iOS13 operating system to see if they can find any clues. There’s a screenshot with a calendar with a date saying 10, so the pick is September 10.
Dropbox had to be evacuated this week?
It’s the most Silicon Valley story ever.. Dropbox’s office had to be evacuated because someone’s electric scooter burst into flames. So the geeks ended up on the sidewalk in the 26 degree SF summer heat, and.. I really hope this isn’t true.. someone tweeted they were getting canned sparkling water delivered to them while they waited in the sun. 
 
 

Looking for a new TV show to watch? Tara Ward joined Jack Tame this morning to reveal the best shows on TV this week! 
Years and Years Created by Russell T. Davies and starring Emma Thompson, Anne Reid and Rory Kinnear, Years & Years is an epic saga that takes an ordinary family and catapults them through the next 15 years (SoHo, from Monday 19 August).Jonah A new miniseries covering the story of rugby legend Jonah Lomu, documenting his rise to the top and his struggles behind the scenes (Three, begins Sunday 18 August, 8:30pm). The Virtues A gritty British drama about a man who is haunted by a past he has tried, for decades, to forget (Rialto, begins Sunday 18 August)

Lemon oaty slice.
With all the citrus around right now, this is the slice for me!
Base:
75g butter
3 tbsps sour cream
¾ cup flour
½ cup oats
3 tbsps icing sugar
Topping:
¾ cup sugar
½ cup lemon juice
1 tbsp lemon zest
2 tbsps cornflour
½ tsp baking powder
3 eggs
Icing sugar for dusting

Preheat oven to 180°C. Line a swiss roll tin. 
In a food processor mix the butter, sour cream, flour, oats and icing sugar until it forms a soft dough ball. Transfer this to the prepared tin and press into an even layer. Bake for 20 minutes or until lightly golden. 
Whilst the base cooks making the topping but mixing sugar, lemon juice and zest, cornflour, baking powder and eggs in the food processor (no need to wash it between base and topping) until well combined. Pour over the cooked pastry base and bake a further 25 minutes until just set. 
Cut into slices when cold and with a hot knife.

Nici’s notes:
Always zest the lemons before you squeeze them for your juice and store the zest, wrapped in foil, in the freezer for future cooking!

Every Saturday morning, movie critic Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to take a look at what is playing at the movies this weekend.
Herbs: Songs of FreedomThis theatrical documentary celebrates the five men from different islands in the South Pacific who gave voice to a generation and the issues of the time through their music.Once Upon a Time in HollywoodQuentin Tarantino's ninth feature film is a story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood. The two lead characters are Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), former star of a western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don't recognise anymore. But Rick has a very famous next-door neighbour...Sharon Tate.