The best of BVG: Recent Episodes
Tom
My Dad was many things: scientist, teacher, adventurer, inventor, mountaineer, activist, mischief maker... but above all, he was a storyteller.
These are a selection of my favourites, recorded in 2013, just before he died.
They’re a small snippet of a remarkable life, I hope you enjoy them.
An attempt to climb the Inner Mweni Pinnacle in the Drakensberg with two friends, one of whom freezes up halfway up the climb...
The story of how Dad and a few mates set out to paddle the Orange River from its source in Lesotho... in homemade canoes.
In which Dad, age 9, sets off across the local sewage dam in pursuit of birds eggs. What could possibly go wrong?