Reading
Every book South African radio talked about this month: the authors interviewed, the titles recommended, and what was said about each, with the audio.
127 titles · 250 airings · 5 stations · last 30 days
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Book · non-fiction
Vosier Tembaguayo and Michael Hinton
The authors discuss their book about small players who became business titans, told through 13 stories from Africa and elsewhere. Each chapter ends with questions for readers to reflect on, and the authors hope readers will make notes and relate the stories to their own lives.
Book · non-fiction
bell hooks
A guest says they are reading bell hooks' book All About Love, which she describes as a theorist and academic's take on love. The guest argues society does not talk enough about what love means today.
Book · non-fiction · South African
Tembi Boutelle
A practical business book for professionals who want to build businesses while still employed. The author explains how to test a business idea with customers and reduce upfront costs using deposits and outsourced delivery.
2 airings · Power FM
Book · non-fiction
Michael Gerber
A business book that argues it is a myth that a brilliant technician can run their own business simply by selling technical skills. The speaker raises it as an example of why people are forced into business without being suited to it.
Book · South African
Sol Plaatje
Discussed as a novel Sol Plaatje finished writing in 1920, examining relationships between Black and white people and between men and women. Some readers call it South Africa's first feminist novel.
Book · non-fiction · South African
Sol Plaatje
Discussed as the written record of Sol Plaatje's response to segregation and the 1913 Natives Land Act. The speakers argue it preserves his view of events and offers a more optimistic vision of what was happening.
locl transcribes six South African radio stations as they air. Every hour a model reads the stretches that name a book, film or series and records each titled work that was discussed, reviewed or recommended, with the verdict and who gave it. Quiz clues, name-drops and the stations’ own programmes are left out. Titles and names are as the transcript heard them, so a spelling can be off. Opinions belong to the speakers. Press play to hear the opening window of the conversation; the transcript link has the rest. Only conversations whose audio is still held are listed, so a title leaves the page with its audio.
Updated Wednesday, 28 October at 12:51 SAST. Showing 30 days.