Lunch with Pippa Hudson

Mesopotamia restaurant celebrates its 30th anniversary. Baran wanted to pay tribute to Kurdistan with his Mesopotamia experience. The menu, music and style of the restaurant tell you a story about the Kurdish people.

The Mesopotamia experience offers outside seating right on the square and with amazing views over the city from its upstairs terrace.

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Guest: Dr Cleeve Robertson CEO NSRI

Drowning is a serious public health concern and according to statistics Low-and-middle- income countries are the most affected by drowning, as they carry 90% of the global drowning burden.

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ENTERTAINMENT - FRI 16 DEC

THEATRE: Independent theatre critic Marina Griebenauw has this week’s selection...

MUSIC: Grace Newton

PODCASTS: Rafiq Wagiet has this week’s selection

MOVIES: EWN reporter Chanel September has the rundown on what’s happening on circuit

TV CONTENT: Craig Falcke

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In today's Health & Wellness, we want to focus on the topic of palliative care.

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It's day 1 of the ANC's 55th elective congress, taking place at Nasrec in Johannesburg.

We've sent our Cape Town based EWN news anchor and seasoned reporter, Graeme Raubenheimer to join our Joburg colleagues in covering the event.

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She's getting ready for a very cool (cold) trip.

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CHRISTMAS GIFTING 10 – Cape Town experiences: Africa Melane

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Joining us on the Couch today, is an incredibly talented lady by the name of Isabella Jane. At only 24 this dynamic young lady has accomplished so many wonderful things – she was a runner up of SOUTH AFRICA’S GOT TALENT as a singer/ventriloquist/comedienne. She won a Fleur du Cap Award for her performance in the world tour of Andrew Lloyd Webbers Evita and now she is creating a role in an original South African musical inspired by the life of Elizabeth Klarer.

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You’ve probably guessed from listening that Book Club is my favourite feature on the show, so I made an executive decision that I wasn’t going to miss the chance to share the final edition with you and hear YOUR input on your favourite books this year. A big thank you to all of you who sent in voicenotes musing on your 2022 reading – our team had a lot of fun listening to them, and a really difficult time narrowing down the list to decide which ones we would play on air. In the end we’ve gone for a mix of fiction and non-fiction in the hopes that almost everyone will find at least one of the recommendations appealing.

And after we’ve played them out, we’ll announce which of those voicenote senders has won our big book hamper, valued at R6500.

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GREENER CHRISTMAS: Lorna Pretorius

Several of our gifting guests in the past fortnight have reminded us of the need to contain the consumerism and manage the impact of your Christmas celebrations, and today we thought we’d dive deeper into that topic for our final Life Hack of the year. We’re contemplating how to have a generally greener Christmas that is full of meaningful connection and sharing, without being detrimental to the planet. I’ve invited the team from sustainable living site Faithful to Nature to share some thoughts

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