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People of NotePeople of Note - Ashley DowdsAn exciting Agatha Christie thriller has just opened at Theatre on the Bay. It’s called Black Coffee and, as always with Agatha Christie, you’ll be guessing right to the end with all the usual red herrings. The play is directed by Alan Swerdlow with Allan Committee as Hercule Poirot and Ashley Dowds is Captain Hastings. I spoke to Ashley on People of Note this week to find out more about this play and its large cast, and we were careful not to give anything away.
People of Note. Sunday at 6pm and again on Thursday at midd...2025-03-3059 min
On the Couch with MEXOn the Couch - #169 - MEX in conversation with Ashley Dowds - Part 2Ashley is a Cape Town based actor, known for various TV roles on shows such as Scandal!, Isidingo and Binnelanders.
His international work includes ‘Warrior’ for HBO, and ‘Deep State’ for UK- based Endor productions and as Mickey Purvis, Scottish husband of the endearing Tannie in the series 'Recipes For Love And Murder' for Mnet (SA) and Acorn TV (Scotland).
He played the Milli Vanilli talent manager ‘Girl You Know It’s True’ released in SA cinemas June 2024.
Recent theatre work includes: Paul Slabolepszy’s ‘The Return of Elvis Du Pisanie'.
‘The Curious Incident...2025-01-3133 min
On the Couch with MEXOn the Couch - #168 - MEX in conversation with Ashley DowdsAshley is a Cape Town based actor, known for various TV roles on shows such as Scandal!, Isidingo and Binnelanders.
His international work includes ‘Warrior’ for HBO, and ‘Deep State’ for UK- based Endor productions and as Mickey Purvis, Scottish husband of the endearing Tannie in the series 'Recipes For Love And Murder' for Mnet (SA) and Acorn TV (Scotland).
He played the Milli Vanilli talent manager ‘Girl You Know It’s True’ released in SA cinemas June 2024.
Recent theatre work includes: Paul Slabolepszy’s ‘The Return of Elvis Du Pisanie'.
‘The Curious Incident...2025-01-2431 min
Discover Your Day With A Vivid Full Audiobook.Undercover with Mandela’s Spies by Bradley Steyn, Mark FinePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/46355to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Undercover with Mandela’s Spies
Author: Bradley Steyn, Mark Fine
Narrator: Ashley Dowds
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
Release date: 12-13-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Politics & Government
Publisher's Summary:
1988 South Africa teeters on the edge of a state of emergency. Seventeen-year-old Bradley Steyn crosses Pretoria’s Strijdom Square and walks straight into a massacre. Barend Strydom, the notorious white supremacist ‘Wit Wolf’, is mowing down black bystanders relaxing in the square during their lunch break. Bradley cradles a dying man in his arms and, later...2024-12-138h 31Experience The Game-Changing Full Audiobook Now, Curious Minds!Undercover with Mandela’s Spies by Bradley Steyn, Mark FinePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/25630to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Undercover with Mandela’s Spies
Author: Bradley Steyn, Mark Fine
Narrator: Ashley Dowds
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
Release date: 12-13-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Africa
Publisher's Summary:
1988 South Africa teeters on the edge of a state of emergency. Seventeen-year-old Bradley Steyn crosses Pretoria’s Strijdom Square and walks straight into a massacre. Barend Strydom, the notorious white supremacist ‘Wit Wolf’, is mowing down black bystanders relaxing in the square during their lunch break. Bradley cradles a dying man in his arms and, later, with r...2024-12-138h 31Relish The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Critically-Acclaimed!Undercover with Mandela’s Spies by Bradley Steyn, Mark FinePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/46355to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Undercover with Mandela’s Spies
Author: Bradley Steyn, Mark Fine
Narrator: Ashley Dowds
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
Release date: 12-13-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Politics & Government
Publisher's Summary:
1988 South Africa teeters on the edge of a state of emergency. Seventeen-year-old Bradley Steyn crosses Pretoria’s Strijdom Square and walks straight into a massacre. Barend Strydom, the notorious white supremacist ‘Wit Wolf’, is mowing down black bystanders relaxing in the square during their lunch break. Bradley cradles a dying man in his arms and, later...2024-12-138h 31
That 80s Show SAThat 80s Show | Retro FOMO | A monkey's memoir | Beverley Hills Serge | Magnum's gotta water his avos.Dori rouses herself up from her old person injury to bring you the latest episode of The Hoff's favourite podcast*.
There's so much to catch up on so strap in for Cyndi Lauper at Glastonbury, Bubbles' retirement, Steve Miller magically throwing shade, a not so Happy Day in Ireland, game over for the Thompson Twins, Beverley Hills Serge, Milli Vanilli but even more handsome, Tom Selleck: Water Thief and David Hasselhoff's unwelcome singing.
*Not The Hoff's favourite podcast!
**The absence of the show (00:00:16)**
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LandmarkEPISODE NINE: Surviving the DeepI've been digging into the archives to find this story again - the one I usually reference as a Good Story told by a true raconteur.
I'd met him in the Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape, where he was overseeing the maintenance of an accommodation site.
He'd arrived in South Africa en route a Commonwealth Games event, having sailed from St Helena island (where Napoleon Bonaparte had been banished) and had stepped off the ship at the foreshore in Cape Town. Within hours he'd met the woman he was going to marry...
The intriguing...2023-06-1515 minLandmarkEPISODE EIGHT: Africa UniteAFRICA UNITE
SYNOPSIS: We keep to ourselves most of the time. It’s convenient. When you’re put into a position of DIScomfort, something outside of your experience or culture or environment, you’re challenged to look at the reasons for discomfort. Uniting is not all roses and unicorns - it calls for an objectivity and openness that is a necessary aspect of personal development inside of your own community - which goes a long way to finding a sense of that Unite wherever you travel.
Thanks to the Africa Unite team and all of the in...2023-05-0724 minLandmarkEPISODE SEVEN: Bells For TutuLANDMARK EPISODE: 'Bells For Tutu'
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On the Couch with MEXOn the Couch - #59 - In Conversation with Ashley DowdsAshley Dowds is a South African actor, television presenter and director best known as a continuity presenter for SABC3, and for co-presenting the reality travel show Going Nowhere Slowly, also on SABC3.
He is also known for his role as advertising executive Andrew McBain on the e.tv soapie Scandal!, since the show began in January 2005.
We discuss the current state of the Entertainment Economy in 🇿🇦.2022-12-0930 minLandmarkEPISODE 6: 'Living Heritage'On Freedom Day in April 2021, we listened to the plea from the Khoi first nation for a recognition that was effectively stripped from them since the beginning of the arrival of the Dutch in South Africa. The underlying question is: what does it mean to find meaning in culture? Does THAT offer a way to find a sense of who you are - a sense of belonging? And how far back do you go? Is ancient tradition always valid? So I went back to someone I met on freedom Day, at the Khoi resistance march: Deirdre Prins Solani, who h...2022-01-1046 minLandmarkEp 5: Inside Out/Outside InThree land artists from Tankwa Artscape 2020 residency reveal illuminating concepts about identity and landscape.The Tankwa Artscape is an artists' residency in the Northern Cape region of the Tankwa Karoo desert: https://tankwaartscape.co.za"Imagine a desert floor, undisturbed by human traffic. It’s not the absence of life that is so dramatically visual. It is a few million years old retrospective of ancient seabed and cataclysmic geological events in Earth history, and the footprint of storms and water flow in the riverbeds. Vast pans nudge aside scrub and vlei and gentle hills and lan...2021-11-2936 minLandmarkEPISODE 4: Searching for The Hero What we learn from history is that no one seems to learn from history: What if we were to embrace epic literature again, with its eternal lessons from the past and rebounding tropes of greed and empire that we still see in politics today? Can it still teach us about what constitutes heroism? Or more specifically, can we learn to find our own sense of heroism, which comes down to the most basic level of consciousness: to be present and attentive. That’s what we’re searching for here on ‘Landmark’: a sense of owning who we are.This mo...2021-11-0228 minLandmarkEPISODE THREE: Guardians of the CapeSUMMARYLandmark: episode 3“Guardians of the Cape”SummaryThe tombs of Indonesian spiritual leaders surround the Cape (Western Cape, South Africa). The Holy men or Tuans, whose bodies are in these tombs, were heroes in the Cape Muslim community. They provided hope and kept the practice of Islam alive in a society where it was outlawed.In this episode, Fatima Holliday interviews Sheikh Fakhruddin Owaisi on Cape Muslim History. He tells us of the first muslims brought to Cape...2021-10-0127 minLandmarkEPISODE TWO: Nation BuildingLANDMARK: episode two“Nation-Building”DATE: 01.09.2021SUMMARY:A National Identity seems as illusory as the concept of ‘Self’. When there are eleven official languages, and many others which didn’t make the cut, it seems impossible to find what forms that halo of belonging. Especially if your historical identity was obliterated by historical genocide. As early as 1510, the first nation Khoi faced off with a Portuguese viceroy on the Western Cape coastline. The legacy of that event still resonates amongst the leaders and communities who trace an ancestry back to the peo...2021-09-0127 min
Talking Voice-OversAshley Dowds - Podcasting and The Guild of ActorsTelevision presenter, podcaster, actor, and of course, voice-over artist Ashley Dowds, we chat about the local voice-over landscape, the art of podcast storytelling, what you need to build your home studio - and the state of our industry laws and regulations with SAGA, the South African Guild of Actors. www.saguildofactors.co.za
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/lAnOSlWRmts
Some audiobook platforms other than ACX:
- www.audioshelf.co.za
- www.findawayvoices.com
- www.beeaudio.com
Contact Ashley:
IG: @story2voice...2021-08-3032 minLandmarkThe SourceA 'South African nation' is a term that resonates with complexity. It is within that complexity that stories are found. Stories of individuals- artists, explorers of various kinds, traditional healers as well as historical voices -reflect a universal notion of what we mean by 'South African'. It is the emotional connection to a nation that highlights our universal humanity. In hearing, for example of springbok fly-half Makazole Mapimpi's rugby jersey having no pictures of people who had stood by him on his rise to the top of the league because he was the only one left of his family, t...2021-08-0126 min
SpotlightFatal Attraction & Ruda LandmanThe intense thriller 'Fatal Attraction' takes to the stage, and in studio we have its stars Ashley Dowds and Jo da Silva. Ruda Landman launches her new book - 'Tell Me Your Story', LAMTA Musical Theatre Academy opens its doors, and 'Puppet Guy' Conrad Koch has us in stitches.2018-04-1957 min