Leonie dropped anchor in Howick in the KwaZulu Natal midlands in April to do some laundry and catch her breath. She gave a talk to some interested locals, which got a punt in the Village Talk newspaper.

Leonie joins Marnie Chesterton and the Unexpected Elements team on the BBC podcast as a guest presenter to talk all things fast and curious.

Leonie contributes to a collage of sound experiences woven together by Erika Heilman for her award-winning podcast Rumble Strip. Listeners sent in recordings of what ‘now’ sounded like for them in January 2025. Leonie had dropped anchor in the New England area of the Eastern Cape when she captured a moment.

Where most clivia species — otherwise known as bush lilies — get a touch of the vapours outside of a cool, damp forest understory, the ‘punk’ lily can take a 45°C day on the chin. But the remarkable miracle clivia is being poached to the edge of extinction from its home - a single gorge on the Bokkeveld Plateau in the Northern Cape, South Africa. Leonie and Clarence Ford are once again in conversation, looking for solutions to today’s pressing problems on his show Views & News on Cape Talk.

Leonie talks about the inspiring story of the amaMpondo community who have been fighting extractive mining and industry on their ancestral lands on the South African Wild Coast for two decades. Another uplifting conversation with Clarence Ford on his show Views & News on Cape Talk, discussing the approaching launch of the project as the good ship Story Ark gets ready to tohoist anchor in Cape Town and sets sail.

Story Ark goes Off Track: veteran Eastern Cape journalist Mike Loewe gives Story Ark a punt in his Daily Dispatch column Off Track.

Leonie in conversation with Clarence Ford on his show Views & News on Cape Talk, discussing the advancing dust bowl conditions in the Richtersveld on South Africa’s western desert.

Leonie shooting the breeze with Clarence Ford on his show Views & News on Cape Talk, discussing the approaching launch of the project as the good ship Story Ark gets ready to tohoist anchor in Cape Town and sets sail.