Welcome to the first podcast of the year, on the first day of the year. 1 January 2024. Happy New Year to all of you, wherever you are.
Let’s take a look at 2023.
Episode 01 of African Couch Potato - the Mash-up entered the digital arena on the 18th of July, Nelson Mandela's birthday.
It is now listened to from Johannesburg to San Francisco, from Toronto to Tokyo, Across Africa, the United States, through Europe and into Asia - not bad for six months.
We are available on over 15 different streaming/podcast platforms and so far have featured 14 in-studio guests - not bad for six months.
We already have a good list of recommendations from you, the listener, and we will get to them as soon as we can. Keep sending them in - it is good to keep Gino busy.
Our local recommends while you are still doing the holiday vibe include:
On Netflix,
The Queenstown Kids
Can You See Us
Love, Sex and 30 Candles
Miseducation, Netflix
Runs In The Family
Yoh! Christmas
Magenta Coal
Six In The City
On Prime,
My Girlfriend’s Father
Courting Anathi
The Honeymoon
On Showmax
Adulting 2
1802
We wish you all a very Happy New Year, and trust that one of your New Year's resolutions is to keep on binging.
Let us know what you think, what movie or series you would like to see featured, or just to tell us how brilliant it all is:
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Produced by Ted Loukes and A10 Consulting
ted@aten.co.za
Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
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