

Best of 2025: Ed McKnight unpacks how easy it is to live off the pension
Nearly a million people in New Zealand are currently receiving Superannuation, getting payments of between nearly $600 and just over $1000 every fortnight. But in this cost of living crisis, how easy is it to survive on the pension? Ed McKnight tried living on it for a week and came to a coupl…

Best of 2025: Guy Sebastian talks career, creative process, latest album on Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
"A snapshot in time": Guy Sebastian discusses his creative process, latest album Guy Sebastian is an Australasian icon with a career that’s nothing short of extraordinary. From winning the first season of Australian Idol back in 2003, to carving out a place on the charts, to mentoring new talen…

Best of 2025: Nici Wickes' King's Birthday Lamington Cake
"Fit for a King": Nici Wickes' Lamington Cake If you ever need to produce a celebration cake, this is it! Serves 8-10 Ingredients: Sponge cake 130g unsalted butter, softened 1 cup caster sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 3 large eggs 2⅓ cups self-raising flour 1 pinch s…

Best of 2025: Ed McKnight's brutally honest money advice you need to hear
Ed McKnight has been working in personal finance for a fair few years and although he typically tries to be encouraging when giving advice, he does have some more brutal truths to tell. He joined Jack Tame to offer up the three brutally honest pieces of money advice that most Kiwis will need to h…

Best of 2025: Jack Tame - My takeaways from the birth of my son
In the end, it was just over an hour. Just over an hour between being asleep on the floor of Auckland hospital, to standing, bewildered under the delivery suite lights, helping to dress my newborn son. Mava had been induced on Sunday – the scans had suggested that all was ok but that our baby was…

Bozoma Saint John: Marketing great shares what led her to become a Real Housewife of Beverly Hills
There’s no more iconic a reality franchise than The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills – which is back for its 15th season. And there is perhaps no Housewife in history that has a heftier and more prestigious CV than that of Bozoma Saint John. Boz joined the series last year off the back of a 20-y…

Jack Tame: Christmas as a touchstone for change and generational cycles
As a little kid, I always slept terribly on Christmas eve. I’d try and go to bed early. I’d tell myself that the sooner I went to sleep, the sooner I’d wake on Christmas morning. But sure as anything I’d be up all night, listening for any sound of activity on the roof. Together with my three lit…

Mike Yardley: Lapping up the Causeway Coast, Northern Ireland
Who doesn’t love a great roadie? Self-drive adventures rank highly in my pantheon of golden travel experiences and Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast touring route is a show-stopper. Bookended by Derry~Londonderry and Belfast Lough, this sublime 185km drive threads together a stirring mosaic of fish…

Dougal Sutherland: The phobia of Christmas
Whilst many of us are decking the halls and merrily celebrating, spare a thought for those who suffer from Christougenniatikophobia. Literally translated from Greek means Christ-related-birth-fear i.e., a phobia of Christmas. Is it a real phobia? Not really. Dougal Sutherland of Umbrella Wellbe…

Full Show Podcast: 20 December 2025
Listen to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 20 December. Get the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast every Saturday on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.