S3 Ep57 Deborah Richards on “Shaken & Stirred"

S3 Ep57 Deborah Richards on “Shaken & Stirred"

Author: Gino Shelile August 3, 2026 Duration: 31:26
“A Bartender is the aristocrat of the working class.” So goes the line from Tom Cruise's Cocktail. The latest ACP is dialling in to Vegas to find out what went into the mix of Shaken & Stirred: The Story of Flair Bartending which is currently streaming on Apple TV. 4 x Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and flair champion herself, Deborah Richards, directed this documentary with the help of Emmy-nominated producer and documentarian, Patrick Wirtz. Gino grabbed a Zoom call with the award-...

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S3 Ep47 Movie Book Club: “The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:44
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S3 Ep46 Waleed Al-Yamani and Richard Gau on “Martyrs” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:19
Welcome to ACP, the number 1 film and television podcast to listen to in S.A. according to Feedspot.com, and this week do we have news for you! Coming soon; not just a brand new totally South African action series, but h…
S3 Ep45 Dowelani Nenzhelele on “The People vs VBS” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:53
Imagine waking up to find your life savings are gone forever. Well, that's what happened to thousands of people in 2018, many of them from rural and low-income communities. who had deposited or invested with VBS Mutual B…
S3 Ep44 Jason Jacobs & Devon Delmar on “Variations on a Theme” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:24
Variations on a Theme, a South African drama by directors Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar, just won the coveted Tiger Award for best competition film at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in The Netherlands, and has…
S3 Ep42 Zenobia Kloppers on a Double Premiere ("180" and "Hive") [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:24
Big fanfare! We have hit another first. This week sees the very first time we have featured a return guest. Welcome back Zenobia Kloppers, and she is here to do the double on ACP as she is doing the double in the film wo…
S3 Ep40 Sean Radford on Foley and Sound [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:51
Footsteps, glass breaking, punches, door slams, clothes swishing, rain on the windscreen. How would your TV or film be if all these sounds and many more like them were missing? In the world of production it is not always…
S3 Ep39 News, Views and Reviews [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:57
A quarter of the way through 2026 and it's another Monday morning and another episode of African Couch Potato. Welcome to the latest news, views and reviews. Sadly, we kick off with the loss of Chuck Norris. Probably mos…
S3 Ep38 Jonty Acton on “The Reconciliation” (Film) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:23
Over the last 30 years or so, we have seen many films and TV productions that have, in different ways, looked at the issues of South Africa's troubled past, but very few have looked from the white, English-speaking persp…