Lunch with Pippa Hudson

As part of National Wills Week, we speak to Alex Simeonides, CEO of Capital Legacy – the largest provider of Wills in the country.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In April this year when ginger prices had shot through the roof, you may recall we chatted to gardening guru Jane Griffiths about the possibility of growing our own and just how time-consuming and tricky a job that would be. Jane is a writer, TV producer, and artist who has produced an array of best-selling books on food gardening, growing herbs, urban gardening, and cooking with the resulting produce.

Her latest book has just hit the shelves, published by Sunbird, and it’s all about tapping into the nutritional possibilities of our food gardens and how to make your produce nourish you well and last you a long time. The book is called Jane’s Delicious Superfoods for Super Health, and it’s a pleasure to have her with us again to chat about the new book.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Previously on the show, Pippa has spoken about water issues in the City such as sewerage leaks impacting our major waterways and spills at Zandvlei, Rietvlei, and Zeekoeivlei. Each time the City of Cape Town says residents are dumping waste into our waterways and they cannot cope. But neither apparently can the city’s clean-up and repair teams, because it’s been more than a month now since Glen Beach and Maiden’s Cove were closed due to a collapsed sewerage that was causing overflow onto the beach. We speak to Dr. Kevin Winter, an environmental and geographical scientist at UCT, about water pollution in the city.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In our weekly update on restaurants, we speak to Tessa Purdon, Head of Content at Food24 and Eat Out.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guests

Rafiq Wagiet | Cape Talk producer

Chanel September | EWN reporter

Craig Falck | Deputy editor of TVPlus magazine

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pippa is joined on the line by Samantha Nicholls who is the Executive Director of the Organ Donor Foundation. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Madwomen's Ball is a very intriguing debut novel by a young French writer named Victoria Mas. Called the Madwomen’s Ball, it’s a fictionalised story based on actual events around a famous mental asylum in 19th century Paris. It’s dark and gothic and full of tragic injustice to women, and it’s a story I’m going to remember for a long time. 

Victoria is a graduate of Sorbonne University where she studied Contemporary Literature.  

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jennie Reznek is a co-director of the Magnet Theatre, a Cape Town-based NPO that has been using theatre as an outreach tool since the last 1980s.  She is also the playwright behind the one-woman piece “I turned away and she was gone” which enjoyed huge acclaim when it was first staged from 2016 onwards.  During the lockdown, she has written a companion piece called Snapped, which premieres at the Baxter Theatre next week.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The 50th birthday celebrations are continuing at the Artscape, with an exciting jazz festival taking place this weekend. Launched in 2003, The Youth to Masters Jazz Festival focuses on skills development within the Jazz genre and promotes the fresh, up-and-coming talent in jazz music.

The festival kicks off tomorrow with seven young, aspiring Western Cape-based jazz musicians and instrumentalists who have made the cut following auditions that were held earlier this year.

Pippa chats to SA's jazz artist Gloria Bosman who is featuring at the event.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Peter Cato | The CEO of Cafda

Cafda book store has a long history, dating back to 1961 when it opened up in Wynberg.

Most recently, the store was situated in Warwick street in Claremont, was struggling to stay afloat after being forced to close in the early months of lockdown. But in the last month, it's found a new, much bigger home in Kenilworth.  Now called the Cafda Book Warehouse, it's situated in Glosderry Road, Kenilworth.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.