Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

These are so moreish and delicious that you may want to lock them away if you’re home alone as 20 can become 2 very easily!
Makes 20
100g butter, melted
2 small eggs
2/3 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup sugar
2 big tablespoons quality peanut butter
1 cup chocolate small buttons
1 ½ cup + 2 tbsps plain flour
¾ tsp baking soda

Preheat oven to 170 C fan bake and line 2 trays with baking paper.
In a bowl mix butter, eggs and sugars with a fork, until combined. Stir in peanut butter and stir to combine.
Add chocolate then sift in flour and baking soda and mix well to combine.
Roll into large walnut-sized balls and set out on lined tray, leaving room for spreading.
Bake for 6 minutes then pull trays from oven and bash them on the bench top to essentially knock the air from them – this will give you chewy cookies – before returning for a further 7 minutes of cooking.

This week, Catherine Raynes reviews two new exciting books for you to read.
The Secretary - Renee Knight
Look around you. Who holds the most power in the room? Is it the one who speaks loudest, who looks the part, who has the most money, who commands the most respect?
Or perhaps it’s someone like Christine Butcher: a meek, overlooked figure, who silently bears witness as information is shared and secrets are whispered. Someone who quietly, perhaps even unwittingly, gathers together knowledge of the people she’s there to serve – the ones who don’t notice her, the ones who consider themselves to be important.
There’s a fine line between loyalty and obsession. And when someone like Christine Butcher is pushed to her limit, she might just become the most dangerous person in the room . . .
Two Girls Down - Louisa Luna
As addictive, cinematic, and binge-worthy a narrative as The Wire and The Killing, Two Girls Down introduces Louisa Luna as a thriller writer of immense talent and verve.
When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated family hires Alice Vega, an enigmatic bounty hunter from California, to do what the authorities cannot. Immediately shut out by a local police department already stretched thin by budget cuts and the growing OxyContin and meth epidemics, Vega enlists the help of a disgraced former cop, Max Caplan, to cut through the local politics.
Vega and Cap will go to extraordinary lengths to untangle a complex web of lies, false leads, and dangerous relationships to locate the girls before time runs out. Two Girls Down is intense, suspenseful, and boldly atmospheric from the first line to its riveting conclusion.

Almost two million tons of clothing are sent to landfill every year.
Carbon emissions, chemical and plastic pollution and of course the social cost to the poor people, often in Bangladesh, trapped in a slave labour situation are a massive cause of concern.
Eco-man Malcolm Rands joined Jack Tame to share his advice on what we can do to make sure we are buying ethical clothing and responsibly discarding unwanted items.
LISTEN TO THE AUDIO ABOVE

All Blacks coach Steve Hansen joins The DRS Show with Martin Devlin for an in-depth interview looking ahead towards the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
LISTEN TO THE AUDIO ABOVE AS STEVE HANSEN SPEAKS TO MARTIN DEVLIN

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!
Mrs Wilson: a new BBC drama about a grieving widow who discovered her seemingly perfect husband lived many secret lives (TVNZ OD, Friday 1 March)
Dark Heart: a crime drama series about a police detective haunted by the unsolved murders of his parents when he was 16 years old (Lightbox)
Umbrella Academy: based on the comic books of the same name, this is a quirky, high energy drama about a disbanded group of superheroes who reunite after their adoptive father dies (Netflix)
LISTEN TO THE FULL AUDIO ABOVE

Anna Paquin’s new show ‘Flack’ is not for the faint hearted.
It begins with alcohol, drugs, sex, prostitution, bribes - and that’s just the first five minutes!
The Kiwi actress isn’t just starring in the show about crisis a management expert who has plenty of dramas in her own life, she is also executive-producing it and it’s co-produced through her own company.
You can watch the show on TVNZ OnDemand now and Anna joined Saturday Morning with Jack Tame to discuss the new show and her career.
LISTEN TO THE FULL AUDIO ABOVE

Every Saturday morning, movie critic Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to take a look at what is playing at the movies this weekend.
Stan & Ollie is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Jeff Pope. Based on the later years of the lives of the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy, the film stars Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. It premiered in October 2018 at the BFI London Film Festival. The film was released in the United States on 28 December 2018 and in the United Kingdom on 11 January 2019.
The film focuses on details of the comedy duo's personal relationship while relating how they embarked on a grueling music hall tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland during 1953 and struggled to get another film made. At the 76th Golden Globe Awards, Reilly was nominated for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards the film earned three nominations, including Best British Film and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Coogan.
Hollywood Reporter: James Caan, Rosanna Arquette, Tom Hollander and Jonathan Rhys Meyers headline French writer-director Amanda Sthers’ latest ensembler.
If you’re interested in a movie where James Caan plays a grumpy old retired cardiologist raising pigs in Israel, and one who used to be married to a younger woman, played by Rosanna Arquette, who now is stricken with terminal cancer, and who is also estranged from his playwright son (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), whose latest opus, titled Origins, punctuates the drama with several symbolic interpretive dance pieces, then maybe — just maybe — the film Holy Lands could be for you.
But for the rest of us, this treacly and overwrought piece of mishegoss from French novelist turned director Amanda Sthers is pretty much a chore from start to finish. In fact, a curmudgeonly Caan talking to his favorite little piglet may be one of the better things to see here, because at least there’s a tinge of sweetness to such a scene. The rest of the movie is mired by 12-ton clichés about family, love, death, God, religion, you name it — everything connected by portentous letters that the characters read aloud from separate continents. How this kind of film got made is a mystery; the fact that it has yet to secure U.S. distribution telling of its commercial prospects.

LISTEN TO JACK'S EDITORIAL ABOVE

The sweetness of the fruit and the savoury richness of extra virgin olive oil makes this the most wonderful summer cake. I’ve happily served it warm for dessert or it’s kept for days as the perfect cake to eat with a cuppa.
Makes one 20 cm cake
3-4 ripe peaches or nectarines, sliced
1 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup + 2 tbsps extra sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/3 cups plain flour
½ tsp baking powder
Pinch baking soda
1. Preheat oven to 180 C or 160 fan bake. Grease a 20x20cm square cake tin and line with baking paper.
2. Toss nectarines with ¼ cup of the olive oil and 2 tbsps sugar. Leave to sit for 10 minutes.
3. In a bowl whisk eggs with remaining ½ cup sugar until pale and thickened. Whisk in remaining olive oil. Sift in flour, baking powder and baking soda and stir until combined. Fold in fruit mixture and juices. Scrape batter into tin and bake for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
4. Leave to cool before removing from tin.

Dr Bryn Thompson joins Jack Tame to discuss the latest advancements in health technology.
While a new study has highlighted the importance of sleep to the immune system, rapid progress in artificial intelligence and how it can help the health sector is what has everyone talking.