Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Rugby League, international cricket, the Olympics, Super Rugby – you name it, Laura McGoldrick is there.
She’s one of the country’s best-known broadcasters, and has had quite a diverse career, working as a TV presenter, radio host, MC, and an actress.
McGoldrick has just returned from the official ICC broadcast of the Women’s T20 World Cup, and joined Jack Tame for a chat about her life as a sport’s broadcaster.
"I don’t think sport’s going anywhere,” she told Tame.
“It’s the freest entertainment you can get, and I think one of the things I love so much about it is that I can turn up on any given day, and I have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen, and neither do you as the viewer.”
“That's what makes it very exciting.”
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What do you do to pass the time on a plane?
Kevin Milne has just returned from another trip to Christchurch, flying back home yesterday after attending a family funeral.
The flight path takes them right alongside the Southern Alps and Kaikoura Range, a stunning view that much to Kevin’s surprise, was being mostly ignored by other passengers.
He joined Jack Tame with a question: why do people read books and magazines when there are astonishing views outside the window?
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The Rolling Stones continue to roll on.
They’ve just released their 25th studio album, ‘Foreign Tongues’, a 14-track record that was recorded in just under a month in West London.
It reunites the band with producer Andrew Watt and features guest appearances from Paul McCartney, Robert Smith, Steve Winwood, and Chad Smith, as well as a song recorded with Charlie Watts prior to his passing.
Chris Schulz has been listening to the album, and joined Jack Tame to share his thoughts.
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The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
In her letters to family and friends we come to know the life of Sybil Van Antwerp: stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated, always steadfast in her belief in the power of the written word.
But as the clock begins to tick for Sybil, the need for a few post-scripts to the life she’s led becomes apparent. Fixing her difficult relationship with her children. Taking a final chance at romance. Atoning for an old legal case which has come back to haunt her. And finally, reckoning with a devastating loss that she has spent the last thirty years holding close to her chest.

Daughters of the Sun and Moon by Lisa See
In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is entrancing and innocent, poised to fulfill her role as a daughter with an arranged marriage to a much older merchant. Petal, the big-footed daughter of peasants, is arriving on the shores of Gold Mountain—America—after being sold into servitude by her parents. And Moon, married to a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, is educated and beautiful, yet her failed foot binding as a child has left her with a limp that lessens her value in the eyes of many.
Each woman has her own desires. Dove wants to love and be loved, Petal desires freedom, and Moon seeks justice. Together they face a ruthless society, devoid of goodwill and increasingly hostile to all three women, despite their different backgrounds. Set during a period of rampant anti-Chinese sentiment in Los Angeles, Daughters of the Sun and Moon is a gripping tale of an exhilarating but tumultuous society in a fever pitch, and three women who must navigate its unique challenges. In the wake of the real-life Night of Horrors, a long-forgotten, bloody episode of American history, Dove, Petal, and Moon are brought together by hardship and heartbreak, and they must use their bravery, endurance, and ability to “eat bitterness” to discover their voices, find freedom, and connect through solace and friendship. Together they are daughters of the sun and moon.

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