The Lance Armstrong of Writing

Tash Aw is interviewed on The Fairly Current Show this week :

Preeta on PopTeeVee

So here's Preeta Samarasan, author of Evening is the Whole Day, chatting to Fahmi Fadzil on PopteeVee!

Chye on Pop TV

Kee Thuan Chye is interviewed on The Fairly Current Show this week by Fahmi Fadzil about his latest book March 8: The Day Malaysia Woke Up.

The big questions how much have things actually changed since March 8th and are those winds of change still blowing?

Danny, Fahmi, Toyols and Orang Minyak

Did Toyols come from pre-Islamic Mecca?

Is the Orang Minyak just an overlubricated serial rapist?

How did the Al-Arqam movement spawn one of our most recent hantus - the Hantu Kum Kum (: as in Assalamualai-Kum)?

Fahmi Fadzil gets writer /photojournalistDanny Lim on the PopTeeVee couch to talk about The Malaysian Book of the Undead.

My Friends on Pop TV

Have you discovered The Fairly Current Show yet?

This is a great new venture by Fahmi Fadzil and Mark Teh (both well know theatre practioners and much more), a new weekly Internet TV programme which features interviews with well known Malaysian personalities though not the kind of celebs talking about the usual kinds of things that you would get on terrestrial TV :

The show is part of PopTeeVee, a new media network initiated by Hardesh Singh (composer, producer, music entrepreneur & all-round good fler) and friends. In the very near future, PopTeeVee will also feature other channels, including a local music channel (The Wknd Sessions) and a youth/student-generated campus news channel.

You can watch and download all episodes here, and if you subscribe to the group on Facebook you will know when next episode is up.

The latest episode features award-winning journalist Jacqueline Ann Surin*, author of Shape of a Pocket, talking about press freedom and those "spiked" columns.

Previous episodes have featured Ng Sek San (our friend who kindly lets us use his gallery for our readings) talking about the cutting of trees in his part of Bangsar, Adrian Yap of KLue/Junk, on Urbanscapes, the 'user-generated', day-long creative arts fest which happened last Saturday, and Shanon Shah, musician and activist, talking about his first play Air Con (which, hurray, I'm going to see tonight!).

Watch for the PopTV sign behind the speakers in these episodes. Hilarious!

*(I decided not to embed the link on the page because the recording starts automatically ...)