Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Resident reviewer Tara Ward talks all things television.
Picnic at Hanging Rock: the classic 1975 movie has been rebooted into a six part drama beginning on Soho this Sunday (8.30pm)
Safe: this new British thriller about a widower searching for his missing teenager was created by best-selling crime author Harlan Coben (Netflix)
Rosehaven: a quirky Australian comedy about two best friends who move to a tiny Tasmanian town (TVNZ OD)
Royal Wedding fever: prepare yourselves for Harry & Meghan’s big day with some highlights from the many, many royal related shows screening this week!
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Wars have always been about propaganda but today’s battles are increasingly between ideas, and the media has become part of the battlefield.
Peter Greste spent two decades reporting from the front line in the world’s most dangerous countries before making headlines himself following his own incarceration in an Egyptian prison. He speaks to Jack Tame about his new book ' The First Casualty' A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Global War on Journalism.
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Nine million 'Little Garden' seedlings were sent home with New World shoppers last year. Kevin Milne asks what happened to them all? 
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Jack Tame talks about a 1980 accident in a small US town and the sheer luck that prevented it from becoming a major nuclear incident. He then asks: Has Donald Trump just made a big mistake?
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Catherine Raynes joins Jack Tame to review her latest favourite fiction releases, including The Fallen by David Baldacci, and The Perfect Mother Amy Molloy. 
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Resident reviewer Tara Ward talks all things television.
Love, Nina: a charming comedy written by Nick Hornby and starring Helena Bonham-Carter (Lightbox)
Trust: drama delving into the trials and triumphs of the Gettys, one of America's wealthiest and unhappiest families (Soho, 7 May)
The Rain: a Danish drama that's different to your your typical scandi-noir (Netflix)

We made compost a few weeks ago and discussed autumn colours last week. Now it’s time for gathering all the fallen leaves and storing them for years to come as “leaf-mould”
 I’ve been known to do this in my dressing-gown in the dark, raking copious amounts of my neighbour’s leaves and processing them for my own garden, before they blow away or get washed away in a flooding event!
 Gather the leaves and stuff them in an empty wheelie-bin; the largest one is the best
Literally compress them into the bin, if need-be: stand on them to squeeze them as hard as you can.
Keep your balance and be safe!
 Wheel this bin – when it’s full – to a dark, back-block of your garden (under trees in the corner somewhere); you really don’t want to see this pile for a year or so, so you might as well hide it from view
 Gently tip the compressed leaves out of the wheelie bin and try to stack it in such a way that the pile of leaves stays in one piece; preferably “standing up”
 You’ll notice that all these leaves are “layered” from the downward pressure; This is exactly how they are slowly starting to decay in the next year or so.
 Remember they are mostly veins and cuticular leaf-skins, and thus largely contain Carbon C.
That in itself makes them almost impossible to compost; they’ll keep their shape and layered constitution.
The interveinal leaf surface will decay somewhat, but the structure remains the same
 18 months or so, later, when spring commences, it will be the most brilliant leaf mould you can put on your garden to cover the still cold soil.
The dark matter will gather heat from the feeble spring sun; it helps to heat your soil
It shades the soil, so weed seeds have no show of germinating
The leaf mould will keep moisture in for months to come (summer-drought will be less severe)
And contact with the soil will create access to more Nitrogen for further composting into one of the finest compost (leaf mould compost) you’ll have ever seen:
 It creates humus that will fluff-up your soil and give nutrients a lot of places to attach itself: N, P, K etc.
 Once you’ve done this for the first time, you’ll be gathering leaves every autumn and create two, three, four piles of leaf mould …
You might even be seen in your dressing gown, gathering the stuff under the cover of darkness:
Black Gold!

New Zealand Herald movie reviewer Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to talk about the latest releases, including:
The Breaker Upperers starring Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek, James Rolleston & Rima Te Waita
Isle Of Dogs directed by Wes Anderson. Voices of Bryan Cranston, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDomand
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Is it OK for the government to remove the current rebate available to middle income earner property investors? Financial Advisor, Hannah McQueen, from Enable Me thinks not.
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Charles Sabine is an Emmy winning journalist and former war correspondent for NBC. His life changed when he was diagnosed with what is described as the deadliest disease known to man, Huntington’s. He spoke to Newstalk ZB's Jack Tame about the diagnosis and why he is travelling around the world trying to change what he says is an outdated stigma caused by misinformation around the disease.
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