The Dan Nicholl Show

A kid from Despatch with a love for football discovered a rare talent in another sport - and today Danie Gerber is widely regarded as the greatest Springbok rugby player ever.

Having marched for Mandela in London and watched his inauguration as a teenager, American Jacob Lief arrived in South Africa for a job that didn’t exist - and ended up on a train to Zwide that changed his life.

As a junior provincial number 10, Francois van Coke harboured the Springbok dreams of many young South Africans - but fate had a different path to success lined up for hugely popular musician

Turning down a weekend with Steven Spielberg, inspiring the ’95 Springboks, and creating theatre on the edge in apartheid South Africa: the extraordinary life of stage veteran Paul Slabolepszy.

What prompts the frontman of one of South Africa’s biggest rock bands to walk away and start over? Ross Learmonth 2.0 looks back on life with Prime Circle, and the new adventure that’s just beginning.