Name: Phumlani Pikoli on Radio 702 with Africa Melane by Pan Macmillan South Africa
Duration: 18 min 56 s
Description: Phumlani Pikoli chats to Africa Melane about his latest novel, #BornFreeloaders. Born Freeloaders captures a political and cultural moment in the city’s and South Africa’s history. Interwoven is an analogous tale of the country’s colonisation and the consequences that follow: https://www.panmacmillan.co.za/authors/phumlani-pikoli/born-freeloaders/9781770106796

Read by Arthur Morey, John Lee, Dylan Moore and Kirsten Potter. 

The instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel investigates the idea of parallel worlds and possibilities, and plays with the very line along which time should run.

'So wise, so graceful, so rich' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power
'Ingenious' - Guardian

Lives separated by time and space have collided, and an exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and a girl destined to die too young, have each glimpsed a world that is not their own. Travelling through the centuries, between colonies on the moon and an ever-changing Earth, together their lives will solve a mystery that will make you question everything you thought you knew to be true.

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven.

A Best Book of 2022 - Oprah Daily, Barack Obama, Glamour, LA Times
'Brilliant and fiercely original' - Observer
'One of her finest novels' - New York Times
'Transcendent' - Wall Street Journal

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

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Listen to an excerpt of Alan M. Dershowitz's DEFENDING ISRAEL audiobook, read by Fred Berman with an introduction read by the author.

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

World-renowned lawyer Alan Dershowitz recounts stories from his many years of defending the state of Israel. 

Alan Dershowitz has spent years advocating for his "most challenging client"—the state of Israel—both publicly and in private meetings with high level international figures, including every US president and Israeli leader of the past 40 years. Replete with personal insights and unreported details, Defending Israel offers a comprehensive history of modern Israel from the perspective of one of the country's most important supporters. Listeners are given a rare front row seat to the high profile controversies and debates that Dershowitz was involved in over the years, even as the political tides shifted and the liberal community became increasingly critical of Israeli policies.

Beyond documenting America's changing attitude toward the country, Defending Israel serves as an updated defense of the Jewish homeland on numerous points—though it also includes Dershowitz's criticisms of Israeli decisions and policies that he believes to be unwise. At a time when Jewish Americans as a whole are increasingly uncertain as to who supports Israel and who doesn't, there is no better audiobook to turn to for answers—and a pragmatic look toward the future.

Buy the audiobook

Defending Israel by Alan M. Dershowitz, audiobook excerpt

Phumlani Pikoli chats to Africa Melane about his latest novel, #BornFreeloaders. Born Freeloaders captures a political and cultural moment in the city’s and South Africa’s history. Interwoven is an analogous tale of the country’s colonisation and the consequences that follow: https://www.panmacmillan.co.za/authors/phumlani-pikoli/born-freeloaders/9781770106796

Phumlani Pikoli on Radio 702 with Africa Melane

Author, Phumlani Pikoli speaks and shares more on his book titled Born Freeloaders, with Phemelo Motene.

Phumlani Pikoli on SAfm's Life Happens

This is not a perfect take (many fumbles), and yet it is also perfect. No vocal effects (some reverb okay okay but a tiny amount). This is my voice and it sounds like it does in my living room where this was recorded with my cat as audience. 

This is heartfelt, and a lovely song to sing. Thank you Bob Marley. And thank you Gus Silber for suggesting it. 

Please share, please care, please be kind to each other.

Redemption Song Nechama Brodie

What if we could have babies without having to bear children, eat meat without killing animals, have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise or choose the time of our painless death?

To find out, Jenny Kleeman has interviewed a sex robot, eaten a priceless lab-grown chicken nugget, watched foetuses growing in plastic bags and attended members-only meetings where people learn how to kill themselves.

Many of the people Kleeman has met say they are finding solutions to problems that have always defined and constricted humankind. But what truly motivates them? What kind of person devotes their life to building a death machine? What kind of customer is desperate to buy an artificially intelligent sex doll – and why? Who is campaigning against these advances, and how are they trying to stop them? And what about the many unintended consequences such inventions will inevitably unleash?

Sex Robots & Vegan Meat is not science fiction. It's not about what might happen one day - it's about what is happening right now, and who is making it happen. In the end, it asks a simple question: are we about to change what it means to be human . . . for ever?

Jenny Kleeman 20 July 2020

Pan Macmillan SA is one of the largest general book publishers in South Africa, with a growing local list of titles published under the Picador Africa and Macmillan imprints. 

Pan Macmillan represent a number of group company imprints in South Africa including Macmillan, Pan, Picador, Tor, Kingfisher, Macmillan Children’s Books, Macmillan USA and Priddy Books. In addition the company also represents some major international publishers including: Orchard Books and Hodder Children’s Books; Walker Books; Guinness World Records; Frances Lincoln and Barefoot Books.

Through the publishing of a diverse range of titles and authors, Pan Macmillan aims to engage readers of all ages and diverse backgrounds.

Phumlani Pikoli on Radio 702 with Africa Melane

Pan Macmillan South Africa

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