Mixtape 6: Changes
From the pop-up studio in his cupboard, Charles Leonard plays songs in this eclectic mixtape to reflect the changes we’ve all felt with the coming of the coronavirus.
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Episode 10: Hunger and Covid-19 | Brazil’s Bolsonaro virus
There are almost a billion hungry people in the world. We look at how the Covid-19 pandemic is going to make this situation far worse. Also, Brazil is a scary case study of what happens when a president doesn’t take the coronavirus seriously.
Mixtape 5: Heroes and villains
Times of crisis such as the world is now seeing produce heroes and villains. In this week’s mixtape, Charles Leonard uses songs to praise the good guys and call out the baddies.
Episode 9: Is SA’s Covid-19 plan sufficient? | Humour and coronavirus
Will the government’s financial relief plan be enough for South Africa’s impoverished citizens? Also, the desperation of living in a shack settlement with Covid-19 in the air and how comedy has changed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Mixtape 4: At home
This week’s eclectic Mixtape is about staying at home, with sad songs about loneliness, drugs and alienation; and happy songs about baking powder, table tennis, potholes and flowers.
Episode 8: HIV lessons for Covid-19 | Chicago love song
In responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa can draw on how it tackled HIV and Aids. Also, a Chicago musician pays tribute to the doctors and nurses of his city with a beautiful song.
Mixtape 3: Journey by songs
How do you travel around the world when you are locked down? Simple – you use your mind and music. This Mixtape takes you on a global musical trip.
Episode 7: After Covid-19 | Mandla Langa turns 70
Will it be business as usual for the global economic order after the coronavirus pandemic? And, how poet and writer Mandla Langa has responded to a Covid-19 reality that’s far stranger than fiction.
Mixtape 2: Telling Stories
In this week’s Mixtape: South African township funk, uplifting jazz, African guitar music, conscious soul, inspiring hip-hop, rebel reggae and a special feature on songs that tell stories.
Episode 6: Domestic workers under Covid-19
Domestic workers are left exposed by Covid-19 at their workplaces – will they be covered by the law? Travelling under the threat of infection. And, we take a philosophical look at school. What it is and what it should be.
Mixtape 1: Songs of Solace
In these trying times you can’t ask for a better antidote than music. That’s why we’re introducing the Radio New Frame Mixtape – an eclectic mix of music from around the world.
Episode 5: The spy who cried | Fanon on football
Former South African spy boss, Moe Shaik, has just published an amazingly frank account of his life. Also, anti-colonial thinker Frantz Fanon not only loved football, he was a fine player too.
Episode 4: Coronavirus in my country
The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated the globe, with the number of infections and resulting deaths exploding. We speak to an Italian journalist who gives us a taste of a day in the life of a country in lockdown.
Episode 3: Women on the mines | Working-class food
Women have been working underground alongside male mineworkers in South Africa’s mines since 2004. We go down a mine to find out if the repressive macho culture has changed. Also on our menu today, the food that working-class people around the world eat has a lot in common. We find out what’s for lunch.
Episode 2: Race and Rugby | Lebanon Uprising
South African rugby is redressing its racist past with support from unexpected quarters, and we question if the uprising in Lebanon five months ago can still effect change.
Episode 1: Taxi drivers exploited | Indian street theatre
Many see South African minibus taxi drivers as untouchable, but they are some of the most exploited workers in the country. Left-wing street theatre is huge in India – we hear how a performance on New Year’s Day 1989 ended in tragedy.