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
427 Episodes
240 – 260

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

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
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