Once upon a time, there was a man. Then came woe. Hence the word wo-man. Then came a snake. But that’s a different story… It was decreed by some external force that many believe exists, but most have never seen (rather like baggage handlers), that man and wo-man should look vaguely similar, but act [...]
The Joyride | 9:00 – 12:00 (Saturday) Nick Plummer hijacks the Taxi on the weekend and takes it on a cultural joyride with friends around the block. It does what it says on the tin. Rarely staying in one place long enough to get boring, The Joyride gives you a 3-hour dash around the [...]
Technical glitches are part and parcel of 21st Century existence. Windows doesn’t always work (shouldn’t that be “windows don’t always work”?), the internet trips itself up – wouldn’t you, if you were carrying several trillion pages of data around the globe every day? Power supplies (when you find them) don’t always behave, and mobile signals [...]
Is it a claustrophobia thing? Is the management trying to tell us something? Or are we just rolling out of the terminus, getting out and about with the Great Unwashed listeners, and all those people who haven’t yet heard us (or heard OF us…) I think it’s the latter. I HOPE it’s the latter… But [...]
An old chestnut phrase to describe radio is “theatre of the mind”. How true. Especially when applied to some of the goings-on on The Green Mamba Joyride each Saturday morning. For those of you who may have been passed by this steamroller of a show, we do things a little differently on the Joyride. Entertainment [...]
What, who, how, when, where… One of my favorite post-Apartheid speeches was Thabo Mbeki’s ‘I Am An African’ address of 8 May 1996. Since then that particular African has been treading a very rocky road indeed, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t touch me, move me and make me ‘verlang my ma’. [...]
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