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Fine Music Radio Plus

The beauty of radio is the immediacy. The beauty of a podcast is the longevity. Fine Music Radio Plus brings you the best of both with selected programmes and features based on popular demand.

Fine Music Radio Plus brings you selected programmes and features which you can listen to at your leisure.
Occasionally English South Africa Music
45 Episodes
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Pretty Women Live Broadcast - Christopher Jaftha

This special live broadcast celebrated the African premier of Bryan Adams’ and Jim Vallance’s hit show, “Pretty Woman: The Musical” at Artscape. It featured songs from the show, and interviews with the two lead actors, Leah Mari and Christopher Japhta, the director and choreography re-creator Rusty Mowery, the music supervisor…
24 Mar 7 min

Pretty Women Live Boroadcast - Will Van Dyke

This special live broadcast celebrated the African premier of Bryan Adams’ and Jim Vallance’s hit show, “Pretty Woman: The Musical” at Artscape. It featured songs from the show, and interviews with the two lead actors, Leah Mari and Christopher Japhta, the director and choreography re-creator Rusty Mowery, the music supervisor…
24 Mar 5 min

Pretty Women Live Broadcast - Leah Mari

This special live broadcast celebrated the African premier of Bryan Adams’ and Jim Vallance’s hit show, “Pretty Woman: The Musical” at Artscape. It featured songs from the show, and interviews with the two lead actors, Leah Mari and Christopher Japhta, the director and choreography re-creator Rusty Mowery, the music supervisor…
24 Mar 7 min

Pretty Women Live Broadcast - Rusty Mowery

This special live broadcast celebrated the African premier of Bryan Adams’ and Jim Vallance’s hit show, “Pretty Woman: The Musical” at Artscape. It featured songs from the show, and interviews with the two lead actors, Leah Mari and Christopher Japhta, the director and choreography re-creator Rusty Mowery, the music supervisor…
24 Mar 5 min

Pretty Women Live Broadcast- Hazel Feldman

This special live broadcast celebrated the African premier of Bryan Adams’ and Jim Vallance’s hit show, “Pretty Woman: The Musical” at Artscape. It featured songs from the show, and interviews with the two lead actors, Leah Mari and Christopher Japhta, the director and choreography re-creator Rusty Mowery, the music supervisor…
24 Mar 9 min

Pretty Women Live Broadcast

This special live broadcast celebrated the African premier of Bryan Adams’ and Jim Vallance’s hit show, “Pretty Woman: The Musical” at Artscape. It featured songs from the show, and interviews with the two lead actors, Leah Mari and Christopher Japhta, the director and choreography re-creator Rusty Mowery, the music supervisor…
24 Mar 56 min

The Choral Life - 22 February 2026

Conductor Yolanda Botha visited the Fine Music Radio studios to talk about her Canticum Novum concert choir and symphony orchestra who will present the South African debut of Dan Forrest's Jubilate Deo in two separate concerts on Saturday the 21st March 2026 in the Endler Hall and Sunday 22 March…
4 Mar 14 min

Sunday Breakfast - 8 February 2026 - Mikhaila Smith

Cape Town born pianist and composer Mikhaila Smith, who is based in New York, is spending some time in the Mother City with family and friends. She paid a visit to the Fine Music Radio studios on the Sunday Breakfast show and told Otto van der Walt about her music,…
12 Feb 12 min

The Choral Life - 7 December 2025

The Quava Vocal Group from Johannesburg had quite a busy year. Otto van der Walt caught up with their Public Relations Manager Kagiso Zwane to hear all about winning the Grand Prix prize in Poland and finding a replacement conductor, and of course their new album called So Breaks the…
8 Dec 2025 12 min

The Choral Life - 23 November 2025 - Michaelangelo Cloete

Michaelangelo Cloete is the conductor of the Amici de Lumine choir and he had a long friendship with the late composer Dr Martin Watts who was his lecturer and mentor. Michaelangelo came into the studio to talk about Dr Watts' influence on his career and the work that Amici de…
25 Nov 2025 16 min

The Choral Life: 16 November 2025 - Warren Vernon-Driscoll

He has just returned from a year abroad touring in the concert series Queen: It's a Kind of Magic as Freddy Mercury and is spending some well deserved R & R time at home before heading out again next year to continue on the tour. But Warren Vernon-Driscoll took some…
17 Nov 2025 18 min

The Choral Life - Franco Prinsloo's Miracle Tree

Otto van der Walt spoke to Franco Prinsloo about a new production he wrote called Miracle Tree based on a poem by Bongekile Mbanjwa called "Isihlahla Sezimanga". Extracts from this interview were featured on the episode of the 12th of October 2025 of The Choral Life.
13 Oct 2025 8 min

The Choral Life 5 October 2025 - Cape Town Camerata

Cape Town Camerata conductor Leon Starker and choir member Gavin Wild visited the Fine Music Radio studios to talk about winning the William Byrd prize recently, as well as performing at the upcoming Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees.
8 Oct 2025 19 min

The Choral Life (24 August 2025) - Patrick Cordery from True Voices

Co-founder of True Voices, Patrick Cordery came into the Fine Music Radio studios to talk to Otto van der Walt on The Choral Life, about the ensemble turning 25 and the big celebratory concert in September. The concert will include a reimagining of Vivaldi's Four Seasons composed and conducted by…
24 Aug 2025 17 min

WOMEN ZONE 08 AUG 25

The Artscape Women’s Humanity Festival is an annual event that sees Woman Zone present a very special Woman’s Day Show on Fine Music Radio. Reflecting the  ethos, artists and activities of the venue, and the commitment that FMR has to women, it is an absorbing and inspiring hour.   
8 Aug 2025 56 min

The FMR Benefit Gala

The FMR Benefit Gala was something special. A fine selection of music brought FMR live to the stage. The only people we missed were all those listeners who couldn’t attend. Which is why, in celebration of our 30th birthday, we are bringing you the full concert.
11 Jul 2025 2 hr 20 min

The 22nd Artscape Youth Jazz Series soloist concert

The beauty of radio is the immediacy. The beauty of a podcast is the longevity. Fine Music Radio Plus brings you the best of both with selected programmes and features based on popular demand. Fine Music Radio Plus brings you selected programmes and features which you can listen to at…
10 Jul 2025 1 hr 58 min

Schmidhauser Int - 19 May 25

Mike Mills speaks to Daniel Schmidhauser, one of FMR's first advertisers, from Schmidhauser Construction, Electrical & Plumbing where no job is too big or too small.
19 May 2025 3 min
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