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
Ask AIDescribes initiation practices at Horizon on Punting Road, including crawling when encountering one's initiator and memorising their full title.
“When you bump into your hawker, you just crawl.”
Tabang in Punting Road
947 · 947 Drive with Thando · 6 Oct 16:38
Listener call
Ask AIDescribes harsh school initiation practices and argues they were harmless traditions rather than bullying because participants had fun and could opt out.
“We made the grade eight swim in the grass.”
Jason
947 · 947 Drive with Thando · 6 Oct 16:24
Listener call
Ask AIDescribes being cared for by a helper for 16 years, maintaining contact with her, and learning games and Zulu from her.
“She was just really, really nice.”
Nabila
947 · 947 Drive with Thando · 6 Oct 15:47
Listener call
Ask AIDescribes being raised by her grandmother and aunt while both parents worked, including her grandmother’s Afrikaans expressions and discipline.
“I was raised by my grandmother and aunt.”
Letty in Kagiso
947 · 947 Drive with Thando · 6 Oct 15:38
Voice note
Ask AISays they can sleep with a door ajar but close cupboards because they fear what might appear when waking.
“I don't know what's waiting for me when I wake up in the middle of the night in there.”
A listener
947 · Afternoons with Zweli · 6 Oct 14:37
Voice note
Ask AISays a childhood superstition claims sleeping with an open cupboard causes nightmares, so they close cupboards.
“If you sleep with your cupboard door open, you will have a nightmare.”
A listener
947 · Afternoons with Zweli · 6 Oct 14:36
Voice note
Ask AISays closed wardrobe and bedroom doors feel safer, though the reason is privacy rather than fear of monsters.
“I cannot sleep with the door open because we are not anything keeping in inside the room.”
A listener
947 · Afternoons with Zweli · 6 Oct 14:34
