Ampersand Mixtape 9: Celluloid Heroes
/ 4 December 2023

Ampersand Mixtape 9: Celluloid Heroes

Dim the lights, open the popcorn and let Charles Leonard play you his favourite songs about movies and actors on this mixtape, with tracks dedicated to celluloid heroes, villains, aliens, vampires, lovers, fighters and sex bombs

Ampersand Mixtape 7: Food and feasting
/ 21 September 2023

Ampersand Mixtape 7: Food and feasting

This mixtape, packed with tasty tunes from around the world, will titillate your palate and ears with music about veggies, fish and stews, as well as fruit, dessert and cake. There’s even a song with a recipe for a Brazilian shrimp stew

This is Jo’burg Season 1 Episode 10
/ 28 July 2023

This is Jo’burg Season 1 Episode 10

Between 1936 and 1975 a radio station subverted young Jo’burgers all the way from Mozambique. LM Radio’s highly effective ad department came for their money, but it was its DJs that took their souls with the freewheeling “hippy” music that they played. Historian Charles van Onselen explains how that made the apartheid elders at the SABC spitting mad

This is Jo’burg Season 1 Episode 9
/ 21 July 2023

This is Jo’burg Season 1 Episode 9

In the 1980s Capital Radio 604 was more than just a cool station broadcasting from the hippy haven of Port St John’s on the Wild Coast. It’s small, but effective news team was based in Jo’burg, from where they tackled the state, one bulletin at a time

This is Jo’burg Season 1 Episode 1
/ 10 May 2023

This is Jo’burg Season 1 Episode 1

In the first episode of “This is Jo’burg”, the poet, educator, mother, memoirist, activist, Nelson Mandela’s former chief of staff and ambassador to the US and France, Barbara Masekela goes on a road-trip with Leonard of her beloved Johannesburg. She tells the stories, recounts the memories and expresses hopes for her city