Listener calls
When a listener phones a show, or sends a voice note that gets played, we log the call: the topic, their view in a sentence and their own words, with a clip of the call as it aired. Browse the last 7 days by station, show or topic.
Listener call
Asks how intelligent crows are compared with a ten-year-old and describes them befriending or targeting people based on how they were treated.
“Tell me what their intelligence rate is compared to, say, a 10-year-old.”
Martin
Cape Talk · The Clarence Ford Show · 2 Oct 09:54
Listener call
Asks whether long-term alcohol consumption, beginning early in life, affects cognitive performance in older age.
“What is the effect of long-term alcohol consumption on the brain?”
Anne in Thornton
Cape Talk · The Clarence Ford Show · 2 Oct 09:44
Listener call
Asks how non-African big cats arrived in South Africa, whether artificial insemination was used, and how involved local veterinarians are in importing them.
“How did they land here in South Africa?”
Stephen in Pretoria West
702 · The Aubrey Masango Show · 1 Oct 21:40
Listener call
Asks which primate has the closest equivalent to human language and argues that velvet monkeys use distinct sounds to describe different predators.
“Is which primate has the closest example of language, as in words, to humans?”
Margaret in Tamboerskloof
Cape Talk · Afternoon Drive · 1 Oct 17:36
Voice note
Asks why cancer still has no cure despite modern technology and expertise, and suggests pharmaceutical companies profit substantially from cancer treatments.
“How come we do not have a cure for cancer yet?”
A listener in Cape Town
SAfm · The Daily Discourse · 1 Oct 10:32
Voice note
Argues that climate change has always driven evolution, rejects fear-mongering, and urges people to love nature rather than fear it.
“So this fear-mongering about climate change is absurd.”
A listener
SAfm · The Meeting Point · 30 Sept 20:33
Listener call
Questions the study’s methodology, arguing that it should compare emissions, population data and causes of death before linking pollution to premature deaths and asthma.
“I think it was premature for them to conclude that it causes those deaths.”
Nkangala in eThekwini
SAfm · The National Briefing · 30 Sept 07:56
