Woman Zone's annual Women's Day show, broadcast this year on August 8th on FMR, radio station based at Artscape,  features Dr Marlene le Roux, CEO of Artscape; details of the performance Broken Crayons with disability and social justice activist Nothukela Makohliso; Cindy Buske, CEO of Soil for Life; Nina Geraghty of the Life Righting Collective and finally Beryl Botman, author of With (-out) You. If you weren't able to tune in on the day, here's a chance to catch it again. Presented by Theresa Smith and produced by Beryl Eichenberger. 

Grief is an inevitability of life, and each of us handles it differently. It took Beryl Botman some years before she was able to process hers following the death of her husband Prof Russel Botman in 2014. In her book With (-Out) You, she shares in first hand detail how she felt, coped, struggled and ultimately survived. She spoke at her launch at the opening of Artscape's Women's Humanity Festival. (intro song: Beautiful Woman by Tina Schouw)

Twenty-one years ago, Karen Lazar, academic and language lecturer suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed down one side and disabled. It doesn't define her, but has impacted her life dramatically. A champion of gender and disability, in her books Hemisphere - Inside a stroke and Echoes an anthology she describes how. (Intro song, Beautiful Woman is by Tina Schouw)

We start this special series of Woman Zone podcasts for the Women's Humanity Arts Festival 2022 with Artscape CEO, Dr Marlene le Roux who shares her personal messages of care, concern and Covid. 

First time novelist, but well practiced feminist researcher, Joy Watson's The Other Me (Karavan Press) is an eye-opening book with a damaged but fascinating central character. Writer, editor, publisher Karina Szczurek digs deeper to get the back story...

Natasha is one of ten women home food gardeners whose stories feature in a book celebrating 10 years of Woman Zone and 20 of Soil for Life. Beginner gardener turned passionate trainer, Natasha shares how learning and working with Soil for Life has changed her whole outlook. 

Writing her latest novel, The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers (Kwela), brought author and poet Finuala Dowling to tears on occasion. It's the story of her father, Paddy Dowling, but laced with fiction, creative licence and a lot of love and experience, it makes for a memorable read, that may well bring a reader to tears too. 

A featured chef at the Plant Powered Show in Cape Town, life-long foodie and author of Veggielicious Mokgadi Itsweng shared her journey as committed plant-based food evangelist. 

In her debut novel, Lightness of Air (Texture) Angela Miller-Rothbart weaves the real life reminiscences of a holocaust survivor into a piece of art.

Kenyan born Rose Ssali tells the remarkable tale of how she traded her attorneys gown for the writers pen and publishers passion - across the world.