Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Olivia Newton-John is a four-time Grammy Award winner and one of the world’s best-selling recording artists of all time, with more than 100 million albums sold.
In addition to her music success, her starring roles on the big screen in the iconic movies Grease and Xanadu catapulted her into super stardom.
It’s been a big year for Olivia with the 40th anniversary of Grease, turning 70 and releasing a much-awaited memoir.
Don’t Stop Believin’ is her story, in her own words and she joins Jack Tame to discuss her lengthy career, and why she decided to reveal all and write such a personal book.
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Springsteen on Broadway: The Boss shares the personal stories of his life and some of his best-known songs in an intimate one-man show, called “one of the year’s best pieces of entertainment” (Netflix, from 16 December)
Dumplin’: This is a feel-good, coming-of-age comedy about a plus-sized teenage girl who enters her mother’s beauty pageant as a protest, and features a soundtrack by the great Dolly Parton (Netflix)
Alternative ideas for festive viewing: Netflix’s delightfully corny Christmas movies and Dr Pimple Popper: The 12 Pops of Christmas (TLC, Sunday 23 December, 7pm)
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Movie reviewer Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to talk about the latest releases each week.
Free Solo
Follow Alex Honnold as he becomes the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000ft high El Capitan Wall. With no ropes or safety gear, he
The Favourite starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult
In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne (Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Weisz) governs the country in her stead. When a new servant Abigail (Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.
Ralph Breaks the Internet with John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman and Jack McBrayer
Six years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph," Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.
Mary Poppins Returns starring Emily Blunt, Ben Whishaw, Dick Van Dyke, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, Julie Walters
In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, along with Michael's three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend
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"This is a bit of a bittersweet show. This morning is the last program of 2018.
Usually at this time of year I cast my mind back on the last 12 months. In a world where we are always on the go and moving so quickly, we inevitably end summing up the year with a handful of events."
Listen to Jack Tame as he reflects on how the year of 2018 has played out for him.
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Here’s a stunning dessert to grace your Christmas table this year. It’s extremely easy to put together as it’s an assembly job rather than involving any arduous cooking and the flavours are simply heavenly.
Serves 8-10
¼ cup dark cocoa
2 tbsps sugar
2 cups boiling water
200g store-bought sponge fingers
500g mascarpone
½ cup caster sugar
¼ cup marsala or sweet dessert wine
2 cups raspberries, fresh (see note) or frozen and thawed
150mls fresh cream, soft whipped
100g white chocolate, chopped roughly or grated
1-2 tbsps Fresh As raspberry powder
1. Begin by making a hot chocolate by dissolving cocoa and sugar with boiling water. Cool.
2. Whisk together the mascarpone, sugar and marsala until smooth. Spread a thin layer in base of a shallow ceramic serving dish.
3. Dip each sponge finger briefly in liquid cocoa then layer these into the dish to create a single layer. Use a spatula to spread over half of remaining mascarpone mixture then spoon over half raspberries. Arrange another layer of sponge fingers followed by the remaining mascarpone and raspberries. Spoon over whipped cream. Chill for at least one hour (see note).
4. Before serving garnish with raspberry powder and white chocolate.

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
The international bestselling author of The Lacuna, Flight Behaviour and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards - including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize - returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resilience and compassion in times of great upheaval.
One Day In December by Josie Silver
Two people. Twelve chances. One perfect love story.
Laurie doesn't believe in love at first sight. Life isn't a scene from Love Actually, after all.
But then, through a bus window one snowy December day, she sees him. There's one glorious moment when their eyes meet...and then her bus drives away.
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Tara Ward is on the show with Jack Tame discussing the best shows on television, and why you should be watching them.
King Lear: an all star cast including Sir Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson and a dystopian 21st Century setting breathes new life into this classic Shakespearean tragedy (Soho 2, 14 December)
Nox: a tense new miniseries set in the catacombs of Paris about the disappearance of a French police officer and her mother’s search to find her (Lightbox)
David Jason’s Secret Service: British actor and espionage enthusiast David Jason reveals the extraordinary secrets and exploits behind Britain’s spy history (History Channel, from 10 December
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Listen above as Jack Tame explains why he is so proud of the Blackcaps historic victory against Pakistan today, and why moments like these should be celebrated more as they rarely happen.
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Nigella Lawson is one of the most successful food writers of all time, having sold more than ten million cookbooks worldwide and inspiring audiences with her TV shows.
To celebrate the 20 years since she published her first cookbook, 'How to Eat' came out, Nigella has hit the road with her own show, An Audience with Nigella Lawson.
Nigella will be in New Zealand in January and joins Jack Tame to look ahead to the visit and reflect on her career as one of the world's most recognised and famous TV chefs
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Every Saturday morning, movie critic Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to take a look at what is playing at the movies this weekend.
Can I Ever Forgive You starring Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant
Melissa McCarthy is literary fraudster Lee Israel in this biopic from the director of The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Based on Israel's memoir.
Lee Israel made her living in the 1970s and 80s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant).
Ghost Stories starring Andy Nymand and Martin Freeman.
Skeptic Professor Goodman (Andy Nyman, also co-writing and directing) finds himself creeping toward terror as he investigates a long-lost file containing details of three cases of inexplicable hauntings.



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