GUEST: CAROLINE McCANN- Harvesting Heritage

Interview: HUMBLE HERITAGE CROPS IMPRESS FOODIES AT NEW CULINARY COMPETITION

Guest: Nico Smith, Petrol Head

GUEST: LAUREN van NIJKERK – Director Marketing Communications at Wildlands Conservation Trust

Interview: Campaign Connects South Africans with Sharks and Rays on World Ocean Day

GUEST: DR. ALISON BENTLEY - Sleep Expert

Interview: #JSBHEALTH: Are you struggling with insomnia

Guest: PHILIP du TOIT - Project Architect at BPAS Architects

Interview: A new lens for viewing our cities

GUEST: Marie Snyman – Drip AM Co -Founder

– Interview: Decorex Africa

Green spaces are good for people – but in South Africa many cannot access them. This is a finding from researches at Rhodes University in the department of Botany and Anthropology.

GUEST: SUSANNE VETTER - Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Rhodes University

GUEST: VALERIE MOLLER - Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University

GUEST: MICHELLE COCKS - Associate Professor of Environmental Anthropology, Rhodes University

The benefits of experiencing nature for physical, psychological and spiritual well-being are widely documented. But much of the research on these benefits has been done in relatively affluent countries in the global North. There’s little research that has been done in developing countries on the benefits of being in nature.

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Monday 5th June is World Environment Day. A day commemorated by the United Nations encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment.

Guest: Catherine Constantinides - •Environmental & Climate Activist

Note: Catherine has just returned from France, where she visited the Maison Moët & Chandon to learn about Moët & Chandon’s Natura Nostra sustainability programme and attended the ChangeNOW summit in Paris.

· Key sustainability initiatives that form part of this programme.

· So it’s all about the terroir and about biodiversity.

· What are some of the sustainability initiatives each Maison is championing. -

Workshop Week is organised by the Open Book Festival and takes place from 5-10 June 2023 at Bertha House in Mowbray. GUEST: FRANKIE MURREY - Event curator for the Open Book Festival “We piloted Workshop Week in 2022 to offer aspiring and experienced writers the chance to participate in practical workshop sessions with experienced writers. It turned out to be very popular and sessions were fully booked at a rapid rate. It therefore made perfect sense to bring this event back for 2023,” says Frankie Murrey, event curator for the Open Book Festival.

THE BOOKISH DR. Is back with a call to grow our involvement as parents and guardians in encouraging reading in our homes as regular practice. She has selected 2 titles to consider for your children’s book collection list & the book news.

GUEST: DR. NOKUTHULA MAZIBUKO- MSIMANG - University of Pretoria

based researcher and writer of children’s books and historical novels.

ABOUT DR. Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang

Dr NM Msimang is a writer, academic, producer and broadcaster who holds degrees from the University of Cape Town (UCT), the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and has a PhD in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). DR NM Msimang is also the Director of Special Projects and Fundraising for PUKU