The Drive with Roland Gaspar

You CAN influence how your tax money is spent

A must-listen podcast, the Executive Mayor of NMB, Retief Odendaal, on why concerned citizens need to get actively involved in the IDP process.

20 Oct 2022 6 min

Jay Tobias on the Friday Music Club

Jay Tobias is a homegrown rapper, songwriter, and record producer whose passion for the industry started at the tender age of 14. Roland caught up with the talented youngster who has a new single out titled 'Complicated'.

17 Oct 2022 6 min

Matt Ranger on the Friday Music Club

A singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Ranger's latest single, Lonely Sunshine, was recorded in his kitchen! Originally from Port Alfred, he currently resides in Stellenbosch.

10 Oct 2022 7 min

Tobie Cronjé LIVE on the Drive

As Roland so aptly puts it, Tobie is a cultural icon, and so very humble for his legendary status. In the friendly city for a production of 'My Boetie se Sussie se Ou', he was not getting away without a trip to our studio!

7 Oct 2022 11 min

CHOC Cancer Survivor shares his journey of triumph

Diagnosed at the age of eight with a form of bone cancer, Luviwe Tekule is one of CHOC's greatest success stories. Now a university graduate, he wants you "to celebrate every step" with him in this year's Big Walk for Cancer.

3 Oct 2022 4 min

Alexis on the Friday Music Club

Third-year Stellenbosch B Comm student, Alexis, is a passionate singer /songwriter. Starting at the tender age of ten, her work today is a unique blend of jazz and blues - her new single 'Sky is Only Grey' is already proving to be a hit.

3 Oct 2022 5 min

Wax Beach on the Friday Music Club

This electronic music group is five years old and big on collaborations - their latest is with Ryan Cunningham. Called 'Slip Away', it dropped on The Drive with Roland and Roch-Lé.

26 Sep 2022 4 min

The legendary Bats LIVE on The Drive with Roland and Roch-Lé

There were laughs aplenty as the longstanding group popped into the studio to talk touring the Eastern Cape with their "unique blend of memorable music and hilarious humour".

22 Sep 2022 6 min

Tripper on the Friday Music Club

Up-and-coming George-born artist, Tripper, joined the Drive for a first-time play of his latest single and to chat about future projects.

19 Sep 2022 4 min

Chizzy LIVE on the Friday Music Club

Hailing from George, singer/songwriter and producer Chizzy was in our neck of the woods to shoot a music video and joined Roland and Roch in studio to talk his latest music.

12 Sep 2022 7 min

'Steinheist' - SA's biggest corporate scandal now a documentary series

Director Richard Gregory weighs in on the making of the Showmax three-part series on the shocking Steinhoff crash that wiped more than R200bn off the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and knocked the pension funds of millions of ordinary South Africans.

7 Sep 2022 9 min

Dillon John on The Friday Music Club

Talented multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, and producer, Dillon joined the Drive to talk about his new release and the road ahead.

5 Sep 2022 7 min

Algoa FM listener wins R100 000 on the Drive with Roland and Roch-Lé

This is what winning a whopping R100 000 courtesy of McDonald's sounds like! Congrats Melody!

31 Aug 2022 4 min

Will Linley on the Drive

Will Linley live from Amsterdam in the Netherlands chats to the Drive team about his latest single.

26 Aug 2022 9 min

British actor - Mark Stanley on the Drive

Mark Robert Speight, known professionally as Mark Stanley is an English actor. He portrayed Grenn in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He is also known for his roles in the films Kajaki and Our Kind of Traitor, and the series Dickensian.

19 Aug 2022 8 min

Arnold Vosloo stars in Netflix's first Afrikaans series

The Drive team caught up with South African and American actor - Arnold Vosloo. He is famous for roles such as Imhotep in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, Colonel Coetzee in Blood Diamond, Pik van Cleef in Hard Target and many more blockbuster movies. Arnold Vosloo will star in…

12 Aug 2022 9 min

Carli-J Meyers LIVE on The Drive

With plenty of number one hits on the station, having Carli on the Friday Music Club was like catching up with an old friend. The talented muso shared her excitement at having her single 'Authentically Yours' remixed by Locnville.

8 Aug 2022 7 min

Game of Thrones star Conleth Hill on The Drive

The affable Olivier-winning actor, known for his role as Varys in Game of Thrones, joined Roland and Roch-Lé to chat about his starring role in the new ITV four-part series Holding. The series is based on a novel by the inimitable Graham Norton.

5 Aug 2022 7 min

Fasten your seatbelts - Cathy Specific LIVE on The Drive

Everyone's favorite air hostess, Cathy Specific, AKA Brendan van Rhyn, is back to titillate and entertain Gqeberha. Roland and Rochlé caught up with the statuesque 'Queen of the Skies' ahead of her performance in the Bay.

3 Aug 2022 6 min

Celso Fabbri (Friday Music Club)

The Drive team were joined in-studio by Celso Fabbri. He's a producer, songwriter and he's been making waves within the music industry.

29 Jul 2022 7 min