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Dan chats with British superstar Becky Hill about her years-in-the-making debut album, 'Only Honest On The Weekend'. Having been a global hitmaker since her teenage years, Becky decided it was time for an official album. Her debut single off the album 'My Heart Goes' sets the tone for what is going to be an album to remember.

We received a surprise 'Caraoke' submission for Mumford and Son's Little Lion Man which absolutely blew us away. 10 Year old Mckayla from KZN was such a sensation on the whatsapp line that we simply had to find her in person, and we did! This is our interview with her own unique version of Dua Lipa's Levitating.

Dan get's his second jab live on air completing his full covid 19 vaccination. Lisa from Medirite guides him through the whole process and chats a little bit about why we need to push our vaccination numbers up.

The team chat about words that are untranslatable. Each member of the team comes from a different language and cultural background and they ask us to guess what certain words mean in their language.

Our favourite newsreader, Mathapelo Moloi is back after an extremely difficult 7-week struggle with Covid 19.  After being hospitalized in High Care for 2 weeks and suffering a variety of different traumas associated with long Covid she has the bravery to speak about her experience to the nation.

Nurse Letitia vaccinated both Xoli and Marli live on the radio in front of thousands of people at the CTICC convention center in Cape Town. She talks the team through the process and explains the potential side effects.

Dan and the team chat with the incredible Katherine Swanepoel who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in her third year of university. She finished her degree and works as an Occupational Therapist while also being one of our star Paralympians.

Dan and the team chat with Paralympic physician Dr Carolette Snyders about the challenges that Paralympians face in competing at such a high level.

Dan and the team chat with extreme adventurer Chris Bertish on his return from his Trans-Atlantic SUP adventure. He talks about the release of his new movie entitled Last Known Co-ordinates which is all about the adventure.  

SA rocker James Deacon did a phenomenal cover of the 'Get Vaccinated Parody Song' that everyone needs to hear.

Dan chats with Rosa Karoo who has run a variety of projects in the online and theatre space helping people unlock their truth and Queerness. She speaks about her own coming out story and how difficult it can be for queer women. Rosa also highlights a few key differences between coming out as a man vs as a woman.

It's 5 Breakfast Producer Nic's birthday and he has always considered himself a Leo, but Astrologer Nina Bloch has something else to say.

Dan and the team chat with clinical psychologist Emily Knott about common mental health issues that affect young women everyday. 

It's Bloem vs Durban and there is everything to win.

5 Breakfast brings you the biggest general knowledge quiz in the country. Each city will represent themselves in a winner takes all quiz spanning everything in general knowledge, current affairs, sports, arts & culture and history you name it. Our elected cities are: Pretoria Middleburg Cape Town Gqeberha Johannesburg Durban Bloemfontein  Stellenbosch

Dan chats with Associate Professor Shamil Jeppie from the Historical Studies Department at UCT. He explains the historical context of the Taliban in Afghanistan, America's involvement in the country and the Taliban's complete takeover of the country in just 10 days after the US pulled it's forces after 20 years of occupation.

The team introduces a brand new feature called The Massive Music Mashup Challenge. We play a mashup clip of 5 songs and ask the listeners to guess it. If they get all of them correct they get to announce the next rack live on air for the nation.

Dan and the team introduce a brand new feature called 'The Best Thing I learned In A Varisty Lecture'