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
292 – 312

People of Note - Earl Gregory

A show which is doing incredibly well here in Cape Town, and which has been extended to the 2 February 2020, is Kinky Boots at the Fugard. It has a Tony winning score by Cyndi Lauper and the book by four time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein and has played to…
27 Oct 2019 56 min

People of Note - Andrew Newman

Children’s stories and children books are in the spotlight on People of Note this week. Rodney Trudgeon will be talking to author ANDREW NEWMAN whose books include breathing meditations, value rich stories and reflection pages meant to help parents and children to spend 20 minutes before bedtime reading. With titles…
20 Oct 2019 54 min

People of Note - Worbey and Farrell

Rodney Trudgeon will have two guests in the People of Note studio this week when he chats to the British piano musical comedy duo Steven Worbey and Kevin Farrell known as Worbey and Farrell. Both are internationally acclaimed concert pianists but with a wicked sense of humour and their show…
13 Oct 2019 56 min

People of Note - Pieter Schoeman

Rodney Trudgeon’s guest on People of Note this week is the distinguished South African violinist Pieter Schoeman who is currently the concert master of the London Philharmonic. He has performed as a soloist and recitalist in Amsterdam, Moscow, Berlin, Los Angeles and St Petersburg and his many recordings with the…
6 Oct 2019 55 min

People of Note - Robin Emsley

Rodney Trudgeon inviting you to this week’s edition of people of note where I spoke to Robin Emsley, a man who is an internationally famous and respected psychiatrist and who is also Professor of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University. But we spoke about a book he has written which, when I…
29 Sep 2019 52 min

People of Note - Night At The Musicals

Rodney Trudgeon will have two guests in the People of Note studio this week. Jonny Woo and Le Gateau Chocolat are internationally famous drag artists who, apart from their hectic schedules in London and elsewhere in Clubs and cabaret shows, have put together a collection of favourite songs from the…
22 Sep 2019 59 min

People of Note - Christoph Franke

This week’s edition of People of Note was recorded in the main control room of the Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall at the Philharmonie in Berlin. This year is the 10th Anniversary of the Digital Concert Hall and their subscriptions come in from all over the world enabling people to…
15 Sep 2019 58 min

People of Note - Lizette Chirrime

Rodney Trudgeon’s guest on People of Note this week is the Mozambican born, Cape Town based artist LIZETTE CHIRRIME whose works are held in a number of collections throughout South Africa, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Her pieces mostly take the form of detailed fabric collages which reflect her sometimes tumultuous…
8 Sep 2019 56 min

People of Note - Alexander Shelly

A recent visitor to Cape Town was the English conductor Alexander Shelley who was in town to conduct a concert with the visiting German National Youth Orchestra. Alexander is the son of eminent pianist Howard Shelley and is currently music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa as…
1 Sep 2019 56 min

People of Note - Andrew Pike

In August 1991, excited holiday-makers boarded the Oceanos at East London for what was meant to be a trip of a lifetime. Despite treacherous weather, rogue waves and hurricane force winds, the captain decided to set sail and this led to one of the biggest air rescue operations ever as…
25 Aug 2019 56 min

People of Note - Gina Beukes

Rodney Trudgeon’s guest in the People of Note studio this week is the distinguished South African violinist GINA BEUKES. Gina has been in town for concerts and many people will remember her as concert master of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra before she went to play in the London Symphony…
11 Aug 2019 59 min

People of Note - Peter Finlayson

Quality wines come under the spotlight in this week’s edition of People of Note when Rodney Trudgeon talks to PETER FINLAYSON of Bouchard Finlayson. Peter is renowned for pioneering South African Pinot, as well as putting the Walker Bay Wine Region on the map. He was the first winemaker in…
3 Aug 2019 54 min

People of Note - Mathew Baldwin

A gripping and absorbing play by Tennessee Williams called “In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel” is being presented in a restaurant and bar at the Vineyard Hotel. It is another in the hugely successful series of Hotel Plays directed by Fred Abrahamse and designed by Marcel Meyer with an…
28 Jul 2019 57 min

People of Note - Njabulo Madladla

The “Voices Of South Africa National Opera Singing Competition” returns to the Hugo Lamprecht Concert Hall in Parow at 3pm on Sunday 28 July. This is the sixth project in the series enabling the training and nurturing of young South African musicians, especially singers. The concert is preceeded by a…
21 Jul 2019 55 min

People of Note - Delia Sainsbury

The Waterfront Theatre School is presenting the rock musical SPRING AWAKENING at the Artscape Arena Theatre until the 20th July. The show is described as “a celebration of rebelliuon – an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock and roll”. DELIA SAINSBURY is the power behind the hugely successful Waterfront…
14 Jul 2019 55 min

People of Note - Sven Ruygrok

The latest production at the Theatre on the Bay is a play by Enrico Luttmann called “Family Secrets”. It’s a two hander which stars Dorothy Anne Gould and Sven Ruygrok. In this week’s edition of People of Note, Rodney Trudgeon will be talking to Sven Ruygrok about the play as…
7 Jul 2019 55 min

People of Note - Brendan Argent and Sarah Boyd

A new and fascinating CD has just been released called “Echoes of Sophiatown”. It is a re-creation of a number of the songs which became famous in the jazz clubs of Sophiatown before the apartheid machine declared it a white area. The CD is dedicated to preserving, celebrating and reviving…
30 Jun 2019 51 min

People of Note - Debbie Turner

This week’s edition of People of Note features the new CEO of Cape Town City Ballet, DEBBIE TURNER, who was appointed in October 2018. Debbie founded the Cape Dance Company and the Cape Academy of Performing Arts but had a long and successful career as a dance in many genres…
23 Jun 2019 59 min

People of Note - Marc Lottering

Rodney Trudgeon’s guest on this week’s edition of People of Note is one of the country’s most successful and much loved comedians, MARC LOTTERING, who has won multiple Fleur du Cap Awards and a Vita Award and his full ensemble musical Aunty Merle The Musical played for three sold out…
16 Jun 2019 54 min

People of Note - Daniel Ciobanu

Rodney Trudgeon’s guest on this week’s edition of People of Note is the exciting young Romanian pianist DANIEL CIOBANU who was in Cape Town recently to perform with the Cape Town Philharmonic and at the Cape Town Concert Series. Daniel won the prestigious UNISA International Piano Competition in 2014, but…
9 Jun 2019 55 min
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