On March 21, World Poetry Day is celebrated across the globe, with the aim according to UNESCO ‘of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard’. It’s also Human Rights Day in South Africa and the day on which the day on which Yesterdays and Imagining Realities: An Anthology of SA Poetry is to be launched at the Time of the Writer Festival.
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Book Stories People is a podcast for people with an appetite for the story behind the story. Whether a book, a play, a movie, poem, song, a blog – or even a tweet, there’s always a back story – more to it than meets the eye. Or the ear. And that’s often where the gold lies. So that’s what I hope to bring you on BSP, the less well-trumpeted tales, the inside intel – from wordsmiths of all disciplines – known, unknown celebrity or completely unheard of. And who am I? You might well ask. Just an independent journalist from the tip of Africa with an appetite for stories that matches your own. Nancy Richards, yours in stories.
The works of Shakespeare have seen any number of incarnations over the centuries. Actor and associate director Buhle Ngaba, talks about performing in the very newest, a reading of a very South African version of Hamlet – online.
The flames that swept the slopes of Table Mountain in April this year also took a devastating toll on the nearly 80,000 strong collection of books and material in the University of Cape Town’s historic Jagger Library – some of it irreplaceable. The ashes settled and tears dried, a librarian tells the tale. http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/jagger-recovery
From climate change threats to the scorched Kalahari for National Geographic, to a curious pangolin, the Psychonauts and the parlous state of public mental health, science scribe Leonie Joubert has a lot on her mind.
Into its second year and third season, the Daily Maverick podcast Don’t Shoot the Messenger is making waves both locally and across the world. Dawjee and Davis, producer and host respectively share its origins, its thinking and its lickability!
