This Organ Donor Month, we bring you A Gift of Life, a podcast series taking an in-depth look at the organ and tissue donor landscape in South Africa, and introducing you to the people whose lives are affected by it.

In today's episode, we chat with two women who are both organ recipients.  Tanya Bothma is a little over 5 years post a double lung transplant – the first of its kind to be performed in a state hospital anywhere in Africa. Tina Beckbessinger is 12 years post-surgery for a heart and bilateral lung transplant -  one of the first to have the op, and one of the longest surviving patients.  They speak to us about growing up with chronic serious illness, about the experience of transplant surgery and recovery, and about how they honour their donors who gave them a second chance at life.

This Organ Donor Month, we bring you A Gift of Life, a podcast series taking an in-depth look at the organ and tissue donor landscape in South Africa, and introducing you to the people whose lives are affected by it.
In today's episode, we chat with two women who are both organ recipients.  Tanya Bothma is a little over 5 years post a double lung transplant – the first of its kind to be performed in a state hospital anywhere in Africa. Tina Beckbessinger is 12 years post-surgery for a heart and bilateral lung transplant -  one of the first to have the op, and one of the longest surviving patients.  They speak to us about growing up with chronic serious illness, about the experience of transplant surgery and recovery, and about how they honour their donors who gave them a second chance at life.

Lunch with Pippa Hudson. Time to catch up on what's been happening in the City for both lifestyle and news subjects.

Lunch with Pippa Hudson. Time to catch up on what's been happening in the City for both lifestyle and news subjects.

Lunch with Pippa Hudson

Afternoons with Pippa. Time to catch up on what's been happening in the City for both lifestyle and news subjects.

Pippa Hudson completed her Honours degree in English at the University of Witwatersrand.

Pippa trained in radio news at Johannesburg’s ABC Ulwazi broadcasting school.

Her on-air career started in 1998 as a news reporter at Classic FM, and a year later she moved to Cape Town to join a commercial radio station where she was later promoted first to News Editor and then to Station Manager in 2003.

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