http://www.702.co.za Talk Radio 702 - The Podcasts en-us 2006 24 August 2010 2 702webmaster@702.co.za Jenny chats to Prof Mercédès Pavlicevic, Director of Research at Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy in the UK about the growing use of music therapy to stabilise, sustain and support. 2010/08/24 11:52:29 AM Anne Till, registered dietician, came to chat to Jenny following her mention of Leslie Kenton’s Raw Juicing book and the subsequent call she got from Geoff who says a glass of fresh lemon juice each day beat his acid reflux. 2010/08/05 01:07:05 PM The former head of the Joburg Development Agency recently moved on to a job at Standard Bank but Jenny makes a point of paying tribute to the hard work she has invested at the JDA. 2010/07/30 08:24:03 AM Jenny read with interest about "Globish" in a recent edition of the Financial Times. The article mentioned that the South African English accent was the worst in the world - but what is the local English accent? 2010/07/28 09:26:01 AM James Brabazon is the only journalist to have published or broadcast about the Liberian Civil War from behind rebel lines. His book - My Friend the Mercenary - is billed as a firsthand account of the most infamous coup attempt in recent history. 2010/07/26 08:51:43 PM There is an interesting debate between animal welfare, on the one hand, and animal rights, on the other. Overlapping that debate is the question whether the animals which are more sentient, such as whales, dolphins, great apes and elephants, should be treated more humanely. In the Going Green feature Jenny is joined by Prof Bonita Meyersfeld, Associate Professor at the Wits School of Law to try make sense of the arguments. 2010/07/20 08:34:13 AM Jenny talks about the shape of pasta in relation to pasta sauce - and how their varying combinations can influence a meal. This entertaining theme is inspired by the new book Geometry of Pasta. Jenny chats to the dynamic team behind the book and taps into some local expertise from Gianni Mariano. 2010/07/16 10:39:26 AM Jenny chats to Dr Jenitha Badul, of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism about the carbon footprint of the 2010 FIFA World Cup - said to be six times higher than Germany’s in 2006. 2010/07/06 11:09:00 AM Jenny speaks to Mariette Liefferink, CEO at the Federation for a Sustainable Environment to get an update on their progress with Gauteng's impending acid mine drainage problems. 2010/06/29 10:41:21 AM Jenny chats to Kate Wilson and Ridwaan Bawa, editors of Women’s Health and Men’s Health respectively about some of the intriguing results from a new sex survey released in their publications this week. 2010/06/25 11:54:25 AM Peter’s book, Laduma! explains how soccer - a sport imported with colonialism - came to be a mainstay of black sporting experience. It explores the localisation of the game with the introduction of rituals and magic and the emergence of distinctive playing styles. But how has it changed so much since then, and what (or who) were the forces behind the change? 2010/06/23 11:04:07 AM Jenny chats to Lesley Perkes of Art at Work and Strijdom van der Merwe, an artist, about the yellow hands and orange wrapped trees now decorating Gillooly’s Interchange and the route going up to Ellis Park. 2010/06/22 08:14:57 AM Jenny explores the South African experience from the perspective of visiting Mexican football fans. She even gets treated to authentic Mexican music! 2010/06/21 12:28:46 PM Jenny chats to Nicolas Eliades Vesga, Press Information Assistant at the US Embassy in Bogota – who insists he has Africa “jammed in his veins”. 2010/06/18 11:16:39 AM In a special themed Q&A Jenny chats to Dr Barbara Jensen, communication executive for Gautrain and Errol Braithwaite, marketing executive at Bombela Concession Company about Gautrain operations – ticketing, parking, retail and schedules are just some of the topics covered! 2010/06/14 11:48:11 AM In Going Green speaks to Claire Janisch - sustainability and innovation advisor, environmental educator and biomimicry professional about why biomimicry is the science of the future. 2010/06/08 08:20:55 AM The results of a survey made known last week show that crime and employment are still the leading issues for 702Land residents. What is being done about it? And why is it taking so long? To grapple with some of these issues Jenny was joined by Prof David Everatt, Executive Director of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory - the thinktank which did the research. 2010/06/02 11:29:49 AM Wits and Idasa have invited 702Landers to a memorial service on Thursday afternoon commemorating the life of a man who played such a key role in developing South Africa’s democracy. As our contribution to his memory, we feature audio from his last archived chat - from a Tuesday Interview back in 2004. 2010/05/28 08:40:00 AM Jenny looks at the latest attitudes towards treatments of Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity. Up to 60% of children diagnosed with ADHD in early childhood continue to demonstrate notable ADHD symptoms as adults. Her guest is Margie Barry, Chair of ADHASA. 2010/05/26 05:05:53 PM Simon Gear speaks to Anne-Katrin Bicher, curator and programme coordinator of the Khanya History Programme and Migrant Workers Project, Luli Callinicos, founding member of the Workers Library and member of the Khanya College board and Henry Paine, Heritage architect involved in the revamp to find out more about the overhaul of the worker’s compound into a wonderful museum. 2010/05/14 10:05:06 AM Dr Mireille Toledano, co-principal investigator of the COSMOS study from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London tells us more about their new decades-long study to investigate whether there is a link between the use of mobile phones and long-term health problems such as cancer. 2010/05/11 08:19:51 AM Jenny finds out more about aromachology, psycho-graphics and kinesthetics and how they interplay in the realm of perfumes. These disciplines combine into a new service designed to find your perfume personality... Ascent. 2010/05/04 08:46:19 AM In the Going Green feature, Jenny found out more about a new initiative to rehabilitate 65km of the Jukskei River by creating small enterprises that would service specific lengths of it. 2010/04/27 04:29:37 PM Dr Martha Beck is the New York Times’ bestselling author of Expecting Adam, Finding Your Own North Star and Steering by Starlight, and is one of the best known life coaches in the world. She is visiting South Africa at the moment and joined Jenny to give a taster of the latest motivation advice she’s passing to her clients. 2010/04/23 08:21:03 AM Barrie Trower is a retired British military intelligence scientist who for decades worked in microwave and stealth warfare. His particular expertise is on the impact of this radiation on health and brain functioning and shares with Jenny issues we need to be aware and careful of with regards to local wi-fi networks and cellphones. 2010/04/19 04:53:59 PM Jenny chats to analysts Chris Yelland (Managing Editor at EE Publishers) and Andrew Kenny (Energy Journalist) about whether the Medupi Power Station spells the end to our long term power supply problems and to get insights into the wind farm that was included in the deal. 2010/04/13 08:21:57 AM The tool Dr Assamagan is using for in his search is the Large Hadron Collider. Not only is it the world’s largest particle accelerator, just one-eighth of its cryogenic distribution system would qualify as the world’s largest fridge. 2010/03/30 09:33:07 AM Louis Itumeleng Seeco undertook a consumer insights journey across our country - living in stranger’s homes - almost like a fly on the wall, observing the way people interact with brands. The brand pilgrimage, detailed in his book Marketing the Same Difference, explains how they go about their lives, and exposes the relationships the immediate community has with households in the area. 2010/03/25 08:56:05 AM She covers the importance of philanthropy in a country’s development and also finds out more about Alexandra’s first Early Childhood Development Centre, currently under construction. 2010/03/18 08:37:39 AM In the context of all the political infighting, Jenny has decided that because we are in the 2010 Fifa World Cup death zone, everyone needs to put the country's wellbeing ahead of their party and personal agendas. 2010/03/17 09:14:51 AM Geoff is the founder and executive director of the South African Faith Communities Environment Institute, resolute in his belief that faith communities – be they Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Baha'i or Buddhist – have a major role to play in saving the environment. 2010/03/16 08:37:24 AM Ian Cruickshank, SAA 2010 Project Leader and Josh Bustos, Head of Pricing and Revenue Management Department at SAA join Jenny to give her an insight into how the upcoming global event will affect operations of our national carrier 2010/03/12 10:55:41 AM Barry joins Jenny for the annual Oscars Bitch Show – not a movie review in sight, but they do give you expert opinion on outfits, acceptance speeches and the offscreen behaviour of celebrity couples. 2010/03/10 09:57:51 AM In Going Green Jenny got an update on the granting of the coal mining licence near the Mapungubwe National Park - it’s the oldest known large settlement in Southern Africa, and the precursor to Greater Zimbabwe. It’s also the only home to the Small 5… the Rhino Beetle, the Buffalo Weaver, the Elephant Shrew, the Leopard Tortoise and the Lion Ant. 2010/03/02 12:49:00 PM “Parky” is in the country to support SAS’s Inaugural Sport Relief Mile on Sunday 21st March 2010, where 5000 people will hit the streets of Cape Town. 2010/02/22 12:15:54 PM Jenny chats to Wilna about her book The Way of Stars and Stones. It offers practical advice and information about walking the Camino, an 850km pilgrimage route in Spain. 2010 is the Holy Year of the Camino and it is estimated that more than two million people from all over the world will be walking this ancient pilgrimage… Wilna did it in winter! 2010/02/10 09:07:26 AM Jenny chats to diviner, transformative guide and keeper of traditional medicine Mbali Creazzo. She is the inspiration behind the book “29 Gifts” and is widely known as the mother of the giving movement. 2010/02/02 10:22:56 AM Last week Eskom announced increases subsidies on solar geyser installations to encourage further electricity saving. Jenny chats to Eskom’s Andrew Etzinger about other plans they might have to incentivise customers to cut consumption. 2010/01/28 10:45:48 AM We take thousands of digital pics while on holiday and her three guests Hugh Fraser, Jerome Maggerman of OneCom Digital and Marlize Lotz Craft and Décor Editor of Ideas Magazine help with a variety of ideas. 2010/01/21 09:52:00 AM Jenny chats to Jacob Dlamini about his book Native Nostalgia. He is currently based in America but in the book Jacob writes about growing up in Katlehong in Gauteng. Using fragments from his own childhood, he examines the nostalgia that many black people feel for the past – their lives under apartheid. 2010/01/20 08:49:19 AM Jenny speaks to William Gumede and Leslie Dikeni about their latest book Poverty of Ideas: South African democracy and the retreat of intellectuals. In the book they examine how South African intellectuals have regressed from drivers of change in the apartheid era to disenchanted ghosts that appear to fear critical engagement. 2010/01/19 10:04:14 AM Simon chats to Shabeer Jhetam, General Manager of The Glass Recycling Company and hears about the amazing increases in the amount of glass collected for recycling purposes. 2010/01/12 08:43:35 AM Sam Cowen (standing in for Jenny) deciphers the intricacies of male relationships (and the pros and cons of them) with Mark van Dijk, Deputy Editor of Men's Health and Narina Exelby, Senior Editor of Women's Health. 2009/12/17 07:58:21 PM Jenny's panel of technology experts; Aki Anastasiou, Toby Shapshak and Xabiso Dlungwana review some of the hottest gadgets that make great value gifts this Christmas. 2009/12/11 08:24:28 AM Jenny reviews the year that was with special panellists Stephen Newton of Google SA, Bongani Bingwa of Carte Blanche, Aspasia Karras the newly appointed Editor of Marie Claire and Mike Freedman of Freedthinkers. 2009/12/09 10:33:04 AM Jenny chooses great animal adoption gifts for this Christmas - from a grass owl and a riverine rabbit to a tiger shark and a white bellied korhaan. 2009/12/09 09:05:59 AM Jenny chats to Karen Heese, Municipal IQ’s economist and an expert on local government financial issues on how although the City of Joburg faired well in the National Productivity Index, it still faces some serious finanical and sustainability problems. 2009/12/04 10:02:39 AM Jenny speaks to Wilfred Tshuma, MD of Heli-Air Sandton about his plans for a helicopter transfer service from Sandton to OR Tambo airport. 2009/11/25 12:24:57 PM More than five out of every 100 000 children who are born in South Africa probably have both male and female genitalia. Recent research has shown that exposure to certain chemicals - which includes DDT - can cause hormonal disruptions in humans and animals. Jenny asks Dr Anthony Turton and Bettina Genthe, Senior Researcher at CSIR Natural Resources and the Environment Division if we are doing enough to protect our water? 2009/11/24 11:45:35 AM It’s becoming more and more imperative for companies to be able to assess their impact on the environment. In the Going Green feature we hear from Kevin James of Global Carbon Exchange and Michelle Sampson, Chief Financial Officer at Primedia Broadcasting on the carbon auditing process for businesses. Then for tips on a good domestic green audit, Kerry Davis of Green Touch joins us. 2009/11/16 04:48:05 PM