Lunch with Pippa Hudson

The world's largest timed cycle race, the Cape Town Cycle Tour, is taking place this coming Sunday after a hiatus of a year and a half due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, it was the last major event to take place in 2020 before the shutdown and is the first to take place since the easing of restrictions under Level 1. There will be a field of 18 thousand cyclists, mostly South African, and about 850 registered internationals. 

To find out more, we speak to Dave Bellairs, director of the Cape Town Cycle Tour Trust.

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Johannesburg-born, but Cape Town-bred singer, songwriter, and actor, Emma Van Heyn,  has just released her latest single. It's the 4th since her first album, which she produced in 2016 when she was a drama student at Stellenbosch University.

Emma grew up around music.  Her father was an opera singer, and her grandparents were quite well-known musicians back in the day.

She started playing the piano at the age of four and composed her first song at the age of 6.  By 13, she was also writing the words to her music.

But the song we're talking about today, "Looking for Amanda" is her first in exactly year, and she's hoping to have a second album out by around March next year.

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October is World Mental Health Month which aims to raise awareness of the issues surrounding our mental well-being. The Cape Town International Kite Festival has been the flagship event for Cape Mental Health since 1994, and every year the festival flies kites for hope and mental wellness.  Although this year there isn't a physical festival due to Covid-19, there are 2 pop-up fly events.

The first one is on Sunday 10 October at Dolphin Beach and the second is on Saturday 23 October at Zandvlei Nature Reserve. There will be professional kiters at both events, but people are most welcome to pop to bring their own kites along.

We speak to Barbara Meyer, public education PR, and communications officer for Cape Mental Health.

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Time now for our Legal Talk and this week we are speaking about Family Trusts with Nicolene Schoeman-Louw, Managing Director of Schoeman Law Incorporated.

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Food scientist and author Annelien Pienaar's first book, "Boerekos with a Twist" was a huge success running into the 5th edition in Afrikaans and second in English.

And her new book "Meat", which came out in June in English and Afrikaans, is also doing very well all over the world.

It's basically a comprehensive guide to all the different cuts of meat and how to cook them to their best advantage.

Published by Human and Rousseau, it’s available in stores now at R380 a copy at all good bookstores. We speak to her about the book.

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Award-winning chef Bertus Basson and co-owner chef Drikus Brink have opened a new spot called “Geuwels” at Vergenoegd Löw Wine Estate. 

Eat Out partnership with Restaurant Week, which runs twice a year - in Spring and in Autumn. 

Guest: Tessa Purdon |  Head of Content at Food24 and Eat Out

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These last 19 months have been trying for everyone, with lockdown meaning that our lives have been more separate from one another - our friends, family, and colleagues. Well, Nicci Cloete, a professional life coach with a passion for mindfulness practices has come up with an idea to help people who are feeling lonely and isolated.

She uses mindfulness as a tool to facilitate, support, and sustain meaningful positive change in her clients and offers a free weekly online meditation sitting each Monday evening as a way to encourage a sense of ‘ubuntu’ – togetherness – during these times of unprecedented change and uncertainty.

She's offering free online meditation sittings every Monday evening as a way to encourage a sense of ‘ubuntu’ – togetherness – during these times of unprecedented change and uncertainty.

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Guests

Producer Rafiq Wagiet offers a podcast suggestion

EWN's Chanel September looks at the movies

TVPlus magazine's Deputy Editor Craig Falck shares all the updates from the small screen.

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In our health and wellness segment today we want to take a closer look at the use of skin lightening products, and particularly the question of their side effects if used incorrectly.  These products are among the world’s top-selling skincare treatments, used in some cases for treating blemishes and age spots, but in many cases speaking to a very complex social history around the perceived value attached to fairer skin. 

Guest:Dr. Farzana Rahiman | A lecturer at the University of the Western Cape and the lead researcher in the Department of Medical Biosciences’ Skin Lab. 

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It’s Film Club rather than Book Club today, and as the latest Bond movie No Time To Die launches on circuit today, what else could we talk about but Daniel Craig’s swansong in the role of 007? 

Joining Pippa to chat about the film is Stefan Rheeder who is a Marketing Manager for United International Pictures in South Africa. 

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