Cape Town welcomes back the Open Book Festival in September 2022 in an exciting return to an in-person format. The Festival Director, Mervyn Sloman, joins Amy McIver to share the exciting festival programme.

Cape Town welcomes back the Open Book Festival in September 2022 in an exciting return to an in-person format. The Festival Director, Mervyn Sloman, joins Amy McIver to share the exciting festival programme.

The highlights from John Maytham's weekday show

Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

John Maytham is a trained actor who made the switch to radio over 20 years ago when he joined the news team at Radio 604.

He then swapped reporting for anchoring an AM drive time show at a national talk radio station.

Once he set the bar for South African news and talk radio he accepted the challenge to join Primedia Broadcasting and help establish the newly founded CapeTalk, fulfilling the role of both News Editor and Breakfast Host.

He was the first host to switch on the mic on 14 October 1997.

Years later, he was also the first radio broadcaster to do a Google Hangout in South Africa.

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Gabriel Gabi Le Roux, a multi-talented and multi-genred South African keyboardist, composer, and music producer, joins John Maytham on the Afternoon Drive show to talk about his roots in jazz and to preview a tracked titled “The best is love” from an upcoming compilation album

Gabriel Gabi Le Roux, a multi-talented and multi-genred South African keyboardist, composer, and music producer, joins John Maytham on the Afternoon Drive show to talk about his roots in jazz and to preview a tracked titled “The best is love” from an upcoming compilation album

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Guy Briggs, Partner & Executive Director at dhk Architects, who spearheaded CT2040. Briggs joins John Maytham on the Afternoon Drive show to highlight, "Bringing an Olympic Games to Cape Town could help catalyse and speed up the city’s spatial restructuring and regeneration, especially if we make the best use of our existing sports and other assets.

Guy Briggs, Partner &amp; Executive Director at dhk Architects, who spearheaded CT2040. Briggs joins John Maytham on the Afternoon Drive show to highlight, "Bringing an Olympic Games to Cape Town could help catalyse and speed up the city’s spatial restructuring and regeneration, especially if we make the best use of our existing sports and other assets.

CT2040

Sarah Hoffmann, a social media lawyer and co-founder of Klikd, a company dedicated to teaching responsible social media use to parents, children, and teens, joins John Maytham on the Afternoon Drive show to discuss how The Americans war on porn could fundamentally change the way we use the internet. 

Sarah Hoffmann, a social media lawyer and co-founder of Klikd, a company dedicated to teaching responsible social media use to parents, children, and teens, joins John Maytham on the Afternoon Drive show to discuss how The Americans war on porn could fundamentally change the way we use the internet.

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