People of Note

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY PIETER TOERIEN PRODUCTIONS. People of Note is broadcast on Sunday evening at 6 pm on Fine Music Radio with a repeat on Thusday afternoon at 1 pm, presented by Rodney Trudgeon.

Says Rodney: “There are a number of fascinating people who pass through Cape Town and I’ve always felt there to be a need for a programme that allows an in-depth discussion with these personalities. Whether their fields are music, literature, theatre, dance, opera or even politics and economics, we’ll invite them into the studio to talk about their lives, inspirations and role models, among other things.
“Rather like the famous BBC programme, Desert Island Discs, I’ll ask my guests to bring with them their six or seven favourite pieces of music to share with us.”

Among the long list of guests on the programme so far have been people such as Rhoda Kadalie, Lord Robin Renwick, Petronel Malan, Pieter Dirk Uys, Ruby Wax, Jonathan Roxmouth, Imam Rashied Omar and many more.
Weekly English South Africa TV & Film
465 Episodes
272 – 292

People of Note - Rashid Lombard

This is Rodney Trudgeon and, even though the Jazz Festival has been cancelled, I managed to talk to the founder of the festival all those years ago RASHI LOMBARD, a name which certainly has clout in Cape Town’s music circles. He is the man who put our jazz scene on…
22 Mar 2020 59 min

People of Note - Gary Matthewman

Rodney Trudgeon’s guest on People of Note this week is one of the UK’s leading song pianists and, more recently, a conductor as well. Gary Matthewman is a regular artist at London’s Wigmore Hall as well as Carnegie Hall in New York and Vienna’s Musikverein among many other international venues…
8 Mar 2020 57 min

People of Note - David Bester

The Woordfees festival opens in Stellenbosch on 6 March and there is a wealth of music on offer apart from many other genres. One of the performers at the festival is the violinist DAVID BESTER who, apart from his recitals and concerts, is senior lecturer in violin and viola at…
1 Mar 2020 57 min

People of Note - Arno Carstens

In this week’s edition of People of Note, Rodney Trudgeon’s guest will be the award winning singer-songwriter and fine artist ARNO CARSTENS. During his career as the lead singer of the Springbok Nude Girls, and subsequently as a solo artist, Arno has released multiple albums in both English and Afrikaans…
23 Feb 2020 55 min

People of Note - Joseph Pitcher

Pieter Toerien’s production of the Mel Brooks comedy musical THE PRODUCERS has opened at the Theatre on the Bay with an all-star cast led by Alan Committee, Earl Gregory and Terrance Bridgett. The show is directed by Joseph Pitcher who has directed major productions in the UK and internationally and…
16 Feb 2020 58 min

People of Note - Shimmy Isaacs

Rodney Trudgeon’s guest on People of Note this week is the exciting and dynamic young actress, writer, producer and comedian, SHIMMY ISAACS who has won many awards and became the youngest appointed lecturer at the African Film, Television and Live Performance University. Shimmy obtained an international Certificate from the acting…
9 Feb 2020 58 min

People of Note - Bruce Jack

Rodney Trudgeon’s guest on this week’s edition of People of Note is the well-known and much respected wine maker BRUCE JACK who shot to fame with his urban brewery called Flagstone but who is now the owner and winemaker of a more boutique enterprise called The Drift Estate in the…
2 Feb 2020 54 min

People of Note - Terence Bridgett

The next exciting production at Pieter Toerien’s Theatre on the Bay is the musical The Producers, adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from the 1967 fil of the same name. As in the film, the musical concerns two theatrical producers who decide to get rich by overselling interests in…
26 Jan 2020 59 min

People of Note - Dr Jamie McGregor

On People of Note this week, Rodney Trudgeon will be talking to Dr Jamie McGregor of Rhodes University about a lecture he delivered recently at the UCT Summer School. The lecture was entitled “A Composer’s Midlife Crisis: Wagner before and after Schopenhauer”. It is generally thought that Wagner was never…
19 Jan 2020 56 min

People of Note - Grant McLachlan

The UCT Summer School opens this week with the usual vast array of fascinating lectures. Among them is a series of lectures entitle “A Brief History of Harmony, the Universe and Everything” which will be delivered by Grant McLachlan along with performers such as Vox cape Town, Albie van Schalkwyk…
12 Jan 2020 57 min

People of Note - John Hammer

For the first edition of People of Note for 2020, Rodney Trudgeon has decided to repeat an edition of the programme done some years ago which created great interest at the time and in fact many listeners have asked us to repeat it. The interview was with JOHN HAMER who…
5 Jan 2020 58 min

People of Note - Cathy Specific

For the last programme of 2019, Rodney Trudgeon invited one of Cape Town’s most glamourous women into the People of Note studio. Cathy Specific is the undoubted Queen of the elegant supper club known as Gate 69 where she holds court on show nights both in the theatre, on stage…
29 Dec 2019 54 min

People of Note - Christopher Luscombe

The Rocky Horror show is playing to packed houses here at Artscape with Craig Urbani in the role of Frank n Furter and Kate Normington as the narrator. This all new, fast, Slick production is the London production which has been touring for the last 13 years, but with an…
22 Dec 2019 55 min

People of Note - Wouter Kellerman

Rodney Trudgeon’s guest on this week’s edition of People of Note is the multi-award winning South African flautist Wouter Kellerman, who is also the winner of a Grammy Award. Not only is Wouter a flautist, but he is also a producer and composer and part of his mission is to…
15 Dec 2019 58 min

People of Note -Craig Urbani

The iconic musical The Rocky Horror Show is playing during the festive season here at the Artscape Opera House. Since it first opened in June 1973 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstair’s, Richard O’Brien’s musical has achieved cut status and Pieter Toerien’s production is the new, world-wide success directed by…
8 Dec 2019 57 min

People of Note - Count Natale Labia

A new project was launched recently at the imposing Casa Labia in Muizenberg when the Butterfly Art Project joined forces with Fondazione Labia. The Butterfly art Project is a non-profit Public Benefit organisation that encourages healing and creativity through the arts for children in under-resourced communities. Fondazione Labia is the…
1 Dec 2019 58 min

People of Note - Styli Charalambous

The month of November sees the 10th anniversary of the exciting daily, on line newspaper, The Daily Maverick which has become a major player in the media in South Africa and which has attracted some of the country’s finest journalists and influential readers. Rodney Trudgeon’s guest on People of Note…
24 Nov 2019 58 min

People of Note - Jaco Griessel

The seminal masterpiece by Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Managerie”, has received rave reviews for its production at the Artscape Arena. It is directed by Fred Abrahamse who commissioned a special music score for the production from the young South African musician and composer, Jaco Griessel. The result is haunting music…
17 Nov 2019 53 min

People of Note - Anthony Marwood

This week’s edition of People of Note is a repeat of a programme that was broadcast a couple of years ago when the distinguished British violinist Anthony Marwood was visiting Cape Town on holiday. Now, Anthony is back in town, this time to give a recital for the Cape Town…
8 Nov 2019 53 min

People of Note - Barry Salzman

A photographic exhibition called “The Other Side Of Christmas” opens at the Deepest Darkest Art Gallery in Cape Town on 7 November. The works document every day scenes across the American south during the 2014 mid-term elections in the USA which were the precursor to the divisive 2016 Presidential elections…
3 Nov 2019 53 min
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