Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Newstalk ZB host Andrew Dickens joins Jack Tame to review the title track to Mumford and Sons new album, Delta which was recently released.
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The Price of Fortune: The untold story of being James Packer by Damon Kitney,
The biography of James Packer. James Packer turns to Greek mythology in an attempt to explain the most exciting yet tumultuous period of his 50 years on earth.
Past Tense by Lee Child
From number one bestseller Lee Child, the thrilling new blockbuster featuring hero Jack Reacher. Reacher, the eternal drifter, happens by chance on the small New Hampshire town he remembers his father was supposed to have come from. But when he starts looking for his dad's old home, he finds there's no record of anyone named Reacher ever having lived there.
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Maori Television has announced that it's cutting it's news programme Te Kaea along with three other current affairs programmes at the end of the year: Kawekorero, Native Affairs and Rereatea.
An investigation found that Facebook knew about Russian interference, despite Zuckerberg publicly declaring it a 'crazy' idea that his company had played a role in deciding the election.
Steve Bannon has pledged to spend millions to provide ultra-conservative Europe parties free access to specialised poling data, analytics, social media advice and help with candidate selection.
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Paul Stenhouse is the Technology Contributor on Saturday Mornings with Jack Tame. He joins the show to discuss the latest news and gadgets in the wonderful and exciting world of technology.
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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.
My Brilliant Friend: adapted from the much-loved series of books, this is a beautifully-filmed drama about the special friendship between two young girls in Naples during the 1950s (TVNZ On Demand)
Without Limits: Australia - this BBC documentary follows a team of British and Australian wounded veterans as they embark on a journey across Western Australia to mark the 2018 Invictus Games (BBC Earth, Sunday 25 November, 7:30pm)
Prime Planet: Big Pacific - this five part nature mini-series explores the depths of the Pacific Ocean, visiting 20 countries and filming in 77 different locations (Prime, Sunday, 7:30pm)
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Tiki Taane is a New Zealand-based musician, experimentalist, musical activist, producer, and live engineer. He made his name with the band Salmonella Dub, and is one of the country's most well known musicians.
He joins Saturday Mornings with Jack Tame to discuss his new single, and the future of his hometown Christchurch, which has a special place in his heart.
The new single by Tiki Taane & Salmonella Dub "Ignite" is out now.
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Former broadcaster Kevin Milne joins Jack Tame to discuss the recent debacle of students not knowing the meaning of the word 'trivial'.
Should NCEA students know what the word means and should the authorities have cut them some slack?
Kevin believes students spend wasted time learning to spell words rather than understanding their meaning.
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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.
Widows starring Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Daniel Kaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Robert Duvall, Liam Neeson 
Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) co-writes and directs fellow Academy Award winner Viola Davis (Fences) in this heist thriller based on the 1983 TV series. Co-written with Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn.
Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, a group of women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms starring Keira Knightley, Morgan Freeman, Matthew Macfadyen and Helen Mirren 
A young girl is transported into a magical world by a nutcracker toy that comes alive at midnight in this Disney fairy tale adaptation starring Mackenzie Foy (Interstellar).
All Clara (Foy) wants is a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a gift from her late mother. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer’s (Morgan Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key, which promptly disappears into a mysterious parallel world. It’s there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden Fowora-Knight), a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara’s key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world.



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Jack Tame explains why he believes Labour's free tertiary education policy is clumsy and ill informed, and even though he is personally happy to pay more in tax so people can have the same opportunities as he had, the policy is ill-thought-out. 
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This is my nana’s shortcake recipe (originally measured in ounces of course) that has been passed down to my mother and now me. It really is the best shortcake and the combo of strawberry and rhubarb is startlingly good.
Makes 1 x Swiss roll tin
6-8 stalks rhubarb, washed & chopped into 4cm lengths
1 tbsps sugar
2 regular punnets of strawberries, hulled & chopped
225g butter
1 cup) sugar + 1 tbsp
2 large eggs
2 ½ cups flour
2 tsps baking powder
Whipped cream to serve
1. Set the oven at 180 C. Line a Swiss roll tin with baking paper.
2. Roast the rhubarb with the first measure of sugar in the oven until tender. Once cool add strawberries.
3. Cream the butter and sugar (reserve the 1 tbsp sugar measure) until light and creamy, then beat in eggs.
4. Stir in the sifted flour and baking powder, mix well and chill.
5. You won't be able to roll this mixture (it’s too buttery) so with floured hands gently flatten half of the mixture into tin.
6. Spread the strawberries and rhubarb over base then cover with the other half of the shortcake and cook for 40-45 minutes hour until lovely and golden.
7. Sprinkle with extra 1 tbps sugar .
8. Serve warm or cooled slices with whipped cream.