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| Yang-May Ooi / Dishad Husain Interview | 0:14:25 | 128kbps | 44100 | 13.21 MB | |
 | Dishad Husain, the British-Asian director, talks to Yang-May Ooi about making his award-winning short film "Holly Bolly". He made the film over weekends and evenings while holding down a full-time job and funded the costs himself. The film has won awards in the UK, USA and Canada. He is now working with a Canadian production company in the making of a multi-million dollar feature-length movie about the Asian community in New York. keywords: | ||||
| Yang-May Ooi / Pey Colborne Interview - aromatherapist and poet | 0:23:10 | 32kbps | 22050 | 5.3 MB | |
| Pey Colborne talks to Yang-May Ooi on Fusion View at www.fusionview.co.uk, the East/ West blog on writing culture and the arts. Pey is an aromatherapist and poet whose experiences of living in Malaysia and America have influenced her work and her writing. keywords: | ||||
| Yang-May Ooi / How to tell a good story - in conversation with Terry Bailey | 0:24:08 | 32kbps | 22050 | 5.52 MB | |
| Terry Bailey, lecturer in scriptwriting at the University of Aberystwyth, in conversation with Yang-May Ooi, novelist and creator of Fusion View, the cross-cultural blog on writing, culture and the arts. What are the elements of a good story? How important is structure for a novel or screenplay? keywords: | ||||
| Yang-May Ooi / Two Voices | 0:08:41 | 32kbps | 22050 | 1.99 MB | |
| Yang-May Ooi, novelist and cultural commentator, talks about her English voice and her Malaysian voice and how these express the two aspects of her character and culture. Yang-May grew up in Malaysia and now lives in London. keywords: | ||||
| Yang-May Ooi / True Grit and a Pair of Scissors - Winnie Loo Interview | 0:22:38 | 32kbps | 22050 | 5.18 MB | |
| Yang-May Ooi, novelist and creator of Fusion View at www.fusionview.co.uk talks to Winnie Loo, founder and creative director of A Cut Above salon, how she built up her brand to become the Vidal Sassoon of Malaysia. You can also get the chance to win a copy of her motivational book "A Cut Above, Built on Hard Work, True Grit and a Pair of Scissors" - details at the end of the podcast.
Winnie built up her hairdressing salon, A Cut Above, over 30 years from a small unit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to become the premier brand in hair styling in Malaysia. She has opened the A Cut Above Hairdressing Academy, a training centre of excellence for stylists in Malaysia and across Asia. She is also a motivational speaker and author.
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| Yang-May Ooi / Advice from UK Literary Agent, Lucy Luck | 0:26:52 | 32kbps | 22050 | 6.15 MB | |
| UK literary agent Lucy Luck talks to Yang-May Ooi, writer and creator of Fusion View, an East/ West blog on writing, culture and the arts at www.fusionview.co.uk about how to get published. She answers questions emailed by Fusion View readers and listeners about the process of submitting your manuscript, how an agent can work with an author and what's genres are hot right now in the literary world. If you would like to submit your manuscript to Lucy, details are in the podcast and on Fusion View - please mention Fusion View in your covering letter. keywords: | ||||
| Yang-May Ooi / Hope: Dana Roskey and the Tesfa Foundation | 0:21:46 | 32kbps | 22050 | 4.98 MB | |
| Dana Roskey transformed a personal tragedy into a vision of hope for hundreds of children in Ethiopia. He founded the Tesfa Foundation to provide schooling for young kids there to help them break the cycle of poverty. When he passed through London recently, he spoke with Yang-May Ooi on Fusion View at www.fusionview.co.uk. He talked about culture shock arriving in Ethiopia for the first time, coffee and the path that led him to fulfill the dreams of the woman he loved. keywords: | ||||
| Yang-May Ooi / A Voice from the Past (podcast from 30 years ago) | 0:38:46 | 32kbps | 22050 | 8.88 MB | |
| Onc Christmas, thirty years ago, when I was thirteen, I asked my Grandfather to tell us the story of my family. We all gathered round on the verandah after dinner and I taped the story on a cassette recorder. The story of my family begins with a bandit raid in a village in China and a boy captured by the robbers. It is also the story of three sisters who married the same man and a young girl given away to pay a debt. My Grandfather died the following year but our story has been recorded for the next generations. keywords: | ||||
| Yang-May Ooi / Walter Plinge - An Actor's Life | 0:41:03 | 32kbps | 22050 | 9.4 MB | |
| Actor Walter Plinge talks to Yang-May Ooi on Fusion View about his life as an actor during the golden age of English theatre in the 1950s. That was a time when an actor might be playing Shakespeare one week while rehearsing for a Noel Coward play the next week and audiences might see Laurence Olivier in the lead role one night and as the second spear carrier the next night. It was also a key transition point as John Osbourne's kitchen sink drama Look Back in Anger burst onto the scene to the challenge the established expectation of what theatre should be about.
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| Yang-May Ooi / The Theory of Everythig - Interview with poet James Wood | 0:29:29 | 32kbps | 22050 | 6.75 MB | |
| Poet James Wood talks to Yang-May Ooi about the inspirations for his very modern, urban themed poetry, downshifting from a high-powered City job to devote more time to writing and the poetry scene in Edinburgh. James's first collection of poetry, The Theory of Everything, has just been published and he has generously donated three copies to be won by email subscribers to Fusion View at www.fusionview.co.uk. Poet James Wood talks to Yang-May Ooi about life as a poet and wordsmith keywords: james wood poetry poems edinburgh writing author literature theory everything yang may ooi fusion view malaysian | ||||
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