Ed Gamble is a man of many hats.

Champion of the Taskmaster UK, podcast co-host, author, television host, standup comedian – on top of this, he’s an absolute food fanatic.

He’s bringing a feast of comedy to New Zealand with his new show ‘Hot Diggity Dog’, filled with his classic “ranting, raving and spluttering”.

Gamble told Jack Tame he describes the show as a collection of things that have happened to him since he last did a show, including a bit about his disastrous honeymoon and one about buying a cat with his wife.

“It’s a lot more exciting than my description of it makes it sound,” he reassured.

“I promise you’ll be on the edge of your seat, even though it sounds incredibly tedious and middle class.”

He’ll be performing live in Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland – tickets available on TicketMaster.

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Samantha Fish is offering up nine new powerhouse songs on her latest album ‘Paper Doll’.

It’s Fish’s 13th album, and the first she’s recorded with her touring band, leaning into her strengths as a musician in a way she hasn’t before.

Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the new release.

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The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose

Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine. It's been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress.

The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue

Europe is racing towards the future. Steam travel is the emblem of progress; industry and invention are creating ever greater wealth and ever greater deprivation; and on an autumn day in 1895 a young woman determined to make her mark on history boards the Granville to Paris Express with a bomb.

With her travel the train crew and her fellow passengers: the men who run the engine, who have built a life together away from their wives; a little boy travelling alone for the first time; a wealthy statesman and his ill daughter; an artist far from home and in search of a muse; and another young woman with a secret of a very different nature hidden beneath the layers of her dress . . .

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