East Coast Gold

EAST COAST RADIO | Podcast , ±4 min episodes every 14 weeks | Broadcast schedule |

East Coast Gold plays classic hits from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Shows are hosted by legends in South African radio: Damon Beard, Alex Jay, Jane Linley-Thomas and Gordon Graham. East Coast Gold also has up-to-date news and traffic during prime time. Listen via the East Coast Radio app or https://www.ecr.co.za/ecr-gold-listen-live/.

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AUG

2022

Dave Guselli pays tribute to Olivia Newton-John

1 min

Dave Guselli pays tribute to Olivia Newton-John.

Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, who gained worldwide fame as high-school sweetheart Sandy in the hit musical movie "Grease," died Monday, her family said. She was 73.

The entertainer, whose career spanned more than five decades, devoted much of her time and celebrity to charities after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992.

Newton-John "passed away peacefully at her ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends," said a statement from her husband John Easterling posted on her official social media accounts. (AFP)

JUL

2022

Gordon's soap box moment on wages

2 min

Gordon's soap box moment on wages. He reckons business owners shouldn't wait for staff to ask for a raise, they should be a leader and pay them more to help with inflation!

JUL

2022

Dave Guselli's tribute to Kevin Savage

3 min

Dave Guselli has paid tribute to a good friend, a mentor and a South African radio legend Kevin Savage, who sadly died on Saturday after a battle with cancer.

NOV

2021

New UK travel ban to SA scuppers Damon Beard's first trip 'home'

8 min

New UK travel ban to SA scuppers Damon Beard's first trip 'home'. Britain has announced it is banning travel from six southern African countries, including South Africa, after SA detected a new Covid-19 variant with a large number of mutations. It is suspending flights from noon today. Britain will also require anyone arriving from banned countries from 4:00 am on Sunday to quarantine in hotels.
The news means that East Coast Gold's 2pm to 6pm weekday presenter Damon Beard will have to cancel his first holiday 'home', planned for mid-December. He chatted to Gordon Graham about the impact of the news in Gordon's More Music Breakfast Show this morning.

OCT

2021

Are we humans fussing too much? Some useful information from Gordon Graham!

1 min

"I feel like we complain too often and it comes off as self-entitled, let’s try gratitude for what we do have instead of expecting someone else to fix things for us..."

Gordon Graham's More Music Breakfast Show

OCT

2021

Gordon Graham on life returning to 'normal'

1 min

Almost 20 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Gordon reflects on life retuning to some sort of normality. He speaks about a cycle event in Cape Town that he recently attended.

Gordon Graham's More Music Breakfast Show

OCT

2021

Here's something great to do during loadshedding

1 min

Loadshedding has returned and this is what happens in the Guselli household.
What does your family do when loadshedding happens?

Dave Guselli tells us what happens in their household...

Dave Guselli on East Coast Gold

FEB

2020

Coronavirus – the facts!

11 min

Coronavirus – the facts! Gordon Graham chatted to the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Dr. Veron Ramsuran about the coronavirus. Dr Ramsuran is Group Leader: KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP); Senior Lecturer: Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences (CHS) and Associate Scientist: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA). Gordon asks him how big of a threat coronavirus is to us in South Africa; who is most vulnerable - and also to share the latest information. Listen here.

FEB

2020

Lions returned to Africa, touch grass for first time

8 min

It took 76 hours of travel, but four lions - Luke, Demira, Diya and Frieda - are back where they belong on African soil after living in terrible conditions in the Ukraine. Gordon Graham chats to The Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization's Yvette Taylor about this incredible rescue which has taken many months to arrange and which was spearheaded by Lionel De Lange - who runs the NGO's Ukraine chapter.

The lions will now see out their lives at the beautiful Love Lions Alive Project - a sanctuary - near Harrismith.

NOV

2019

Gordon chats to Jane about gold music memories

5 min

Breakfast host Gordon Graham had fellow East Coast Gold presenter Jane Linley-Thomas on the show to talk about what it's been like to be part of East Coast Radio's new digital radio station. Jane says the music on East Coast Gold evokes such amazing memories of special times. But she's also found that it resonates with her young children. "The whole house was singing," she tells Gordon. Gordon also tests Jane's memory when he puts her on the spot to identify three songs from TV shows from years gone by! Listen to their chat here.

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