Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Frank Bunce is an All Blacks legend.
His 55-cap career spanned six seasons before he retired from the team at age 36 – the second oldest All Black in history.
While he was done with the black jersey, he wasn’t done with rugby, playing for the Chiefs as well as having a stint in Europe before hanging up his boots properly in 1999.
But that wasn’t the last time Kiwis saw him on the screen, as Bunce was one of the first contestants on Celebrity Treasure Island – all the way back in 2001.
This year sees him back on the Island for a second attempt at digging up the treasure, but what prompted his return?
“It’s not really the challenge,” he explained to Jack Tame.
“I don’t mind the challenge and all of that ... I think it’s the people, y’know, you enjoy yourself, you have the challenge.”
“It’s something totally different.”
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Sir David Attenborough isn’t the only broadcaster to reach 100 within the last week or so.
One of New Zealand’s greats, Allan Martin reached his century last week.
Throughout his life he was the former Director General of TVNZ, producing some of their greatest current affairs shows, as well as a pilot, a farmer, and even a multi-gold medal winner at the World Masters Games in swimming and track and field.
Kevin Milne decided to pay tribute to him whilst chatting with Jack this week.
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Mysterious Kiwi musician Aldous Harding has released a new album.
Train on the Island is her fifth studio album and is filled with her trademark intricate style of lyricism, full of strange and unique turns of phrases.
Chris Schulz has been listening to the album, and joined Jack Tame to share his thoughts.
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Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.

Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the Republican equivalent of a Kennedy? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it.

Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a brutal reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.

True Crime by Patricia Cornwell
The jaw-dropping, moving memoir from the godmother of forensic crime and creator of Kay Scarpetta.

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"No matter the season, the mesmerising lakeside setting of Wānaka is a supreme body of beauty. Clad in floor to ceiling windows, I was staying at Marina Terrace Apartments on Lakeside Road, waking up to the yolky dawn of a new day as the first rays of sunlight torched the sprawling sweep of Lombardy poplars strutting the western shoreline, beneath Roy’s Peak. Gazing across to the gilded glory of the morning light show, it vividly underscored to me Wānaka’s elemental brag-power as one of our greatest natural playgrounds. And it beats to a less frenetic tempo than the throb of Queenstown. Unsurprisingly, most of the locals look strikingly fit, lithe and active. I guess it becomes second nature – as does using the Mt. Iron loop track as your open-air gym."
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