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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
611 Episodes
20 – 40

Romance or Nomance novel?

Apparently romance novels are making a bit of a comeback. So to help you prepare for your potential new found interest in saucy books, we thought we'd play a game of "Is it a romance novel or not?"
12 Mar 4AM 4 min

Elderly pets bring all the sass and attitude

Ryan went on a mission to find the oldest pet in the Western Cape. We loved hearing about your senior dogs, cats, and birds. We may have found the oldest pet in Cape Town.
11 Mar 4AM 5 min

When is it a bad idea to lend someone money?

That awkward period between the monthly debit orders and payday might find you in a place very few people like to find themselves - when people ask you for money. It's always a difficult question but we thought we'd unpack it this morning. When is it a bad idea to…
10 Mar 3AM 4 min

Ryan's School Run 2025 Ep 5 - Bellpark Primary School

In the latest edition of Ryan's School Run we found ourselves next to the N1 in Bellville visiting Bellpark Primary. There are just over 800 students at the school. The school is well known for their mascots Buddy and Bella. Famous Bellparkers include rugby players – Carlu Sadie, Ricardo Duartee,…
7 Mar 3AM 7 min

Another R50 000 gets cracked!

Another noise means another listener is R50 000 richer! Beverly correctly identified Ryan's latest R50 000 Noise as "a blade scraping the side of an incense stick".
7 Mar 12AM 1 min

Happy birthday, Ryan & Success

It's the only breakfast radio show with half the team sharing a birthday. Ryan and Success both celebrate on the 6th of March and it's a party every year. Today they got so much love from the listeners and had a surprise call from Kurt Darren. Even Eddie Murphy, Snoop…
6 Mar 5AM 6 min

Mozambique - SA Global Explorer Episode 2

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 Sixolisiwe who is originally from South Africa but now lives…
5 Mar 4AM 3 min

Robby Takac from The Goo Goo Dolls

The Goo Goo Dolls are coming to town and added a second show to their concert at Kirstenbosch Gardens on Wednesday 26 March. Phil caught up with Robby Takac - bassist and vocalist. We asked him about life on the road; 'Iris' recently going 7x platinum; and what to look…
4 Mar 2AM 4 min

The Oscars goodie bag is something to behold

The 97th Academy Awards took place last night with Anora winning five awards including best actress for breakout star Mikey Madison, and a record-breaking four prizes for its director Sean Baker. Despite it being a night of glitz and glam on the big screen, something around the Oscars that always…
3 Mar 3AM 4 min

Sevens stars Ayanda Malinga and Shiniqwa Lamprecht

The Springbok Women's Sevens claimed third place in the first leg of the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025 at Athlone Stadium in Cape Town yesterday. They now head into this weekend’s second tournament at the same venue. Two of the stars from the South African team, Ayanda Malinga and…
3 Mar 3AM 6 min

Paul 'Chow' Sampson

We visited Muizenberg Junior School as part of Ryan's School Run. It's where South African surfer Paul Sampson attended his junior schooling days. Paul recently just won the African Surfing Confederation Africa Surf tour and is now ranked the best surfer in Africa.
28 Feb 3AM 2 min

South Korea - SA Global Explorer Episode 1

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 Athina who is originally from Cape Town but now living…
27 Feb 5AM 5 min

Is too much of Kenny G really a problem?

It's Michael Bolton's birthday and that somehow got us thinking of Kenny G (Kenny and Michael go hand-in-hand). Good or bad, everyone in Cape Town seems to have an experience with Kenny G!
26 Feb 3AM 8 min

Imagining a brandewyn, biryani, and bokkom vapes

Ryan was curious about whether or not people who vape get away with sneakily having a puff where they shouldn't. We also let our imagination run wild with South African flavoured vapes.
24 Feb 3AM 4 min

The non-functional toilet spray

40% of households have an air-freshener at home that doesn't work. That's almost half the people in your office - worth a informal poll with the colleagues isn't it? Go around and ask them all and see what they say.
24 Feb 3AM 3 min

Photos can be both memorable and blackmail material

Apparently Gen-Zs have helped create a surge in photographs being printed again. In terms of numbers - printed photos still have nothing photos that we hoard on our devices. We spoke to a listener who admitted to having a digital hoarding problem.
19 Feb 3AM 5 min

The things Capetonians would ban

U.S. President Donald Trump has been in office for 29 days and has already signed 65 executive orders. He has signed more than any president in U.S. history. So we imagined for second what it would be like if we had the power to enforce certain bans or rules in…
18 Feb 3AM 4 min
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