Lunch with Pippa Hudson

Ultra-Trail Cape Town is one event that has grown from strength to strength since its

inaugural event in 2014. With 460 participants in 2014, this year's event will see over 1700 runners traverse sections of the mountains surrounding the city, including Table Mountain, Lion’s Head, Signal Hill, and Devil's Peak.  There are four races, of 100km, 65km, 35km, and 21km over some extremely technical trails within Table Mountain National Park and surrounds.

Joining Pippa on the line is Stuart McConnachie, the race director for Ultra-Trail Cape Town.

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A few weeks ago the new Diabetes Research Centre opened its doors at the institution’s Faculty of Health Sciences . This is the first exclusive research centre of its kind to be located in a public academic institution in this country, and will offer scientists the chance to collaborate and share their research across different departments like never before.

Joining Pippa on the line is the university’s Professor Paul Rheeder who is the centre director

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On the line is Mervyn Sloman of The Book Lounge in Roeland Street. He actually hosted Damon on his podcast Readers Community earlier this year, his first interview about the winning novel The Promise before it even hit the shelves.

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The book in question is called Black Lion – Alive in the Wilderness, and it is written by wilderness guide Sicelo Mbatha with co-author Bridget Pitt. Sicelo happens to be visiting Cape Town this week so we are delighted to have him with us in studio today – a long way away from your usual stomping grounds of KwaZulu-Natal Sicelo

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Our listener Glenn messaged Pipa about a week ago asking whether we knew anything about reports of mass seal deaths along our coastline.

Joining Pippa on the line is Tess Grindley who is a specialist in marine mammals and the Director of Operations at Sea Search – they’re a scientific organization that aims to conduct internationally recognized research in the marine realm, to help feed back into both education and policy development around marine conservation. With a base in Muzienberg, and a field site in Walvisbaai, they work throughout southern Africa with a particular focus on South Africa and Namibia.

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Pippa in an exclusive one on one with South African music icon Sipho “Hotstix “Mabuse who celebrated his 70th birthday on 2nd November 

Hear stories about that seminal song Burnout ,Paul Simon in SA and how Graceland came about , Matric at 60 and growing up and still living in Soweto as well as a tribute poem by poet Siphokazi Jonas , a reach hour of stories from the man himself 

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Guest: Belinda Abraham | Communications, Resource Development & Education Manager at Cape Of Good Hope SPCA

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Our life hack for today is find out everything you need to know about home loans, but felt too shy to ask

Joining Pippa on the line is Justin Easthorpe who is Provincial Sales Manager of ooba home loans

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