Smile FM Ryan O'Connor Breakfast Show

Ryan O'Connor Breakfast Show

Cape Town wakes up to the Ryan O' Connor Breakfast Show every weekday morning 6am - 9am with a chance to crack Ryan's R 50 000 Noise! Sucess Lekabe on traffic, Ricky Shroeder on sports, Merentia van der Vent on News and Producer Phil De Lange.
Daily English South Africa Comedy Interviews Narrated by Success Lekabe, Ricky Schroeder
618 Episodes
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Talk Like Shakespeare Day

Talk Like Shakespeare Day is observed annually on April 23rd to celebrate the works and language of William Shakespeare. The day encourages people to speak and write in a way that mimics his style, using his famous quotes, vocabulary, and phrases. Someone should NEVER have told Ryan that.
23 Apr 5AM 3 min

Unseen star Gail Mabelane in conversation with Ryan

After a smashingly successful first season, acclaimed South African crime thriller Unseen is set for a second season next month. Gail Mabalane who stars as Zenzi Mwale joined us to talk about what fans can expect in the 6 part 2nd season.
22 Apr 5AM 10 min

The benefits of hospitality insurance

Hospitality owners can't predict that guests might misbehave or natural disasters might happen. Fortunately there are options for coverage in any unlikely event that causes damage to boutique hotels or guesthouses. We spoke to Julian Chetty from Auto & General who gave us the lowdown of hospitality insurance.
17 Apr 4AM 4 min

When guests go wild

A lot of us will be travelling this weekend. We talk a lot about our getaways and holidays; but we don’t often think about the owners of bed & breakfasts or small guesthouses or boutique hotels – when something goes wrong. So we spoke to a few hospitality owners about…
17 Apr 4AM 4 min

India - SA Global Explorer Episode 8

SA Global Explorer, brought to you by FNB Private, celebrates South Africans living, working, and traveling abroad. Every Wednesday on the Ryan O’Connor Breakfast Show, we connect with inspiring Global Explorers who share their adventures. This week we connected with Shaun - a South African who visited India.
16 Apr 5AM 3 min

Relationship red flags

Part of life is learning what you like and don't like in a romantic partner. In the process you often learn about things, petty or otherwise, that just make you run. So we asked you what some of your relationship red flags are.
14 Apr 5AM 6 min

The stories and creativity behind a middle name

We have middle names for different reasons. It could be to honour family members, because of family traditions, and to tell people apart who might share a first name. We spoke about it this morning and it turns out, everyone in the team has an interesting story to tell when…
9 Apr 5AM 4 min

United Kingdom - SA Global Explorer Episode 7

SA Global Explorer, brought to you by FNB Private, celebrates South Africans living, working, and traveling abroad. Every Wednesday on the Ryan O’Connor Breakfast Show, we connect with inspiring Global Explorers who share their adventures. This week we connected with Azeemah - a South African who is currently based in…
9 Apr 4AM 3 min

The different ways people jippo the system

Some people call them life hacks. Some people call it cheating. Some of listeners have looked for ways to jippo the system somewhere in life. (Disclaimer: we do not condone any actions presented by our callers)
8 Apr 5AM 6 min

Ryan 'Swiftie' O'Connor

We all hide parts of ourselves out of fear of embarrassment. In Ryan's case, he came clean about something very out of character and joined about 300 million people worldwide. That's right folks...Ryan is officially a Taylor Swift fan.
7 Apr 4AM 4 min

Botswana - SA Global Explorer Episode 6

SA Global Explorer, brought to you by FNB Private, celebrates South Africans living, working, and traveling abroad. Every Wednesday on the Ryan O’Connor Breakfast Show, we connect with inspiring Global Explorers who share their adventures. This week we connected with Lebogang who spent some time in the vibrant country of…
1 Apr 7AM 4 min

Marc Lottering full interview on Smile FM

MARC EUGENE LOTTERING is Marc Lottering’s newest solo show. In this show Lottering shares personal stories with the audience that he has never shared before. Lottering also shares his findings on where he thinks his colourful family tree stems from. As is to be expected, his viewpoints are hilariously outrageous…
27 Mar 6AM 11 min

Greece - SA Global Explorer Episode 5

SA Global Explorer, brought to you by FNB Private, celebrates South Africans living, working, and traveling abroad. Every Wednesday on the Ryan O’Connor Breakfast Show, we connect with inspiring Global Explorers who share their adventures. This week we connected with Bailey who spent some time in the beautiful country of…
25 Mar 6AM 4 min

The family photographer and the Instagram model

A lot of couples have 2 types of people in - one who needs the perfect Instagram picture; and the other who hates taking photos. You'll often see them in public where one poses for a photo and then immediately telling their partner they took the picture wrong.
24 Mar 4AM 5 min

Ralf Schumacher joined us for a chat

There was lots to talk about around this past weekend's Chinese Grand Prix. Broadcaster and former Formula One racing driver Ralf Schumacher joined us on the show this morning to help unpack it all.
24 Mar 4AM 5 min

The stereotypes about the car you drive

You've heard them all before - certain cars don't have indicators and others seem to automatically gravitate towards the fast lane at a slow pace. There are certain stereotypes about the cars we drive. Even though they're not all true, they're still funny to talk about.
20 Mar 4AM 5 min

Ghana - SA Global Explorer Episode 4

SA Global Explorer, brought to you by FNB Private, celebrates South Africans living, working, and traveling abroad. Every Wednesday on the Ryan O’Connor Breakfast Show, we connect with inspiring Global Explorers who share their adventures. This week we connected with Brandon who spent some time in the vibrant country of…
20 Mar 2AM 3 min

The case of Gabriel's missing box

We were talking about items that you borrowed from someone but haven't returned yet and got a VERY interesting call from someone. Gabriel told us that an old friend had borrowed something very peculiar at a cricket game. Josh doesn't seem to want to return it.
19 Mar 3AM 5 min
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