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Saturday, 10 October 2026
A warm, rambling Saturday afternoon of classical favourites, with host Dino pausing repeatedly on Navi Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize as the episode's standout talking point.
- 16:28
Judge Pillay is the fifth South African to win the Nobel Peace Prize, after Chief Albert Lutuli, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Presidents Mandela and de Klerk, who shared the 1993 award.
- 16:28
Her interest in human rights was reportedly kindled by schoolteacher N.G. Moodley, father of an anti-apartheid activist and Robben Island prisoner, before she rose from humble beginnings in Durban.
- 16:29
Dino said Donald Trump is sounding bitter after the Nobel committee passed him over for the Peace Prize and chose Pillay instead, calling it a case of salty reaction.
- 16:18
Dino noted Beethoven's fondness for C minor and its relative E flat major, then played the first movement of Symphony No. 5 in C minor, which he called a lovely, tight performance.
- 17:22
Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, also called Fingal's Cave, was inspired by a boat trip from the Scottish mainland to the Isle of Staffa, a musical memento of his travels in Scotland.