Books Stories People
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
MICHAEL KING, KARINA SZCZUREK & MASANDE NTSHANGA – By complete Contrast
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last year New Contrast, one of SA’s very first literary journals, celebrated 60 years in print. With two editors and a many-hatted admin, we take a ...
ASHRAF KAGEE – By the Fading Light
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A psychology professor uses his imagination, personal and professional experience to paint a picture of the soul of Salt River in the sixties.
BRIDGET MCNULTY - Giving you grief
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It seems that never before has death been so prevalent as the pandemic cuts a swathe across the world. And with death comes grief. To help you at the ...
Buhle Ngaba - Hamlet Lines Online
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The works of Shakespeare have seen any number of incarnations over the centuries. Actor and associate director Buhle Ngaba, talks about performing in ...
Mandy Noble - Books on Fire
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The flames that swept the slopes of Table Mountain in April this year also took a devastating toll on the nearly 80,000 strong collection of books and...
Leonie Joubert – The Planet, A Pangolin and Peace of Mind
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From climate change threats to the scorched Kalahari for National Geographic, to a curious pangolin, the Psychonauts and the parlous state of public m...
Haji Mohammed Dawjee & Rebecca Davis: Don't Shoot the Messenger
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Into its second year and third season, the Daily Maverick podcast Don’t Shoot the Messenger is making waves both locally and across the world. Dawje...
Daniella Djan: Going Crazy
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this Lupus Awareness month of May, a young woman describes in a book called Crazy Became Me, how this unpredictable disease took hold of her life. ...
Leslie Swartz: How I Lost My Mother
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A clinical psychologist shares his journey of caring for his dying mother and takes a look at the 'invisibilisation' of the caring profession.
Lesley Beake: Once Upon a Time – Writing for children
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's World Book Day on April 23, but if Lesley Beake had her way, it would be Children's Book Day every day. A teacher and author of over 90 books her...
Andrew Putter: The Artist and The Fynbos
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For a Cape Town artist, inspiration has sprung from the ground beneath his feet. For him the Cape Flats Sand Fynbos represents so much more than a bun...
Tiisetso Mashifane - A Play Reading On Race
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With a gestation period of many years, bright young theatrical Tiisetso Mashifane has created a play about two women that cuts right to the race quick...
Dbongz & Alexandre Tilmans - Art in the Open
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the 5th year The International Public Art Festival took place recently in Cape Town with 20 local and international artists bringing the walls of ...
Frankie Murrey – The Day of the Poet
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the 5th year <a href="https://ipafest.co.za/">The International Public Art Festival</a> took place recently in Cape Town with 20 local...
Jamie Marais - Self-Determination
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the man who summited Table Mountain 22 times in almost as many hours, who cycled the Sani Pass in crazy climatic conditions. Who went from drug-t...
Tammy Langtry - Exhibiting the Mother
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Nashada Ndango & Marlene Makina
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stories in the First Place: Storytellers from the San indigenous peoples centre At a place called !Khwa Ttu, up in the hills of the West Coast of Sout...
Dan Retief - Golf in the Sunshine
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunshine Tour is a professional golf tour based in South Africa – a country which has proven itself by producing some of the world’s finest pl...
Rachel & Jonathan Ancer - Sharing a second Chance
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Three years ago, a bone marrow transplant gave eight year old Rachel Ancer a new life. In Rachel’s Second Chance, the book that she wrote with a lit...
Mike Abel - Advertising in Crisis
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With 30 years in advertising behind him, ten of them in a time of deep economic crisis, Mike Abel founder of the M&C Saatchi Abel Group of Compani...
Jocelin Kagan - Wild Dog Woman
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Love at first sight for the highly endangered African Wild Dog has turned into a burning passion for photographer Jocelin Kagan. She has dedicated her...
Patric Tariq Mellet - The truth of ‘The Lie of 1652’: A decolonized history of land
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The slaves in Patric Tariq Mellet’s ancestral line were from Angola, Madagascar, India, Myanmar, Sulawazi and Makassar. Locally he’s a descendant ...
Mervyn Sloman: The Story of a Bookshop – Changing Cape Town’s reading culture
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Books Stories People, I talk to Mervyn Sloman, owner of one of Cape Town’s best loved book stores. As a youngster Mervyn had...