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Latest Podcast Episodes
Phoneblog - Pocket PC versus iPhone for mobile blogging
25 Nov 2008 @ 03:29 am
Phoneblogging without internet connection - using Pocket PC mobile phone without much success but an iPhone saves the day.
Not allowing blogging to kill me
21 Jun 2008 @ 07:22 am
Thoughts inspired by:
# The Guardian’s blog post > "Is writing this blog killing me?" - http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/…ing_m.html
# The New York Times articles "In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop" - http://www.nytimes.com/…sweat.html shaw&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
UK earthquake - an exciting non-event?
27 Feb 2008 @ 05:43 am
Some personal thoughts on the big news of the day - the UK earthquake on 27 Feb 2008
Preethi Nair, Author of Gypsy Masala
7 Jul 2007 @ 02:04 am
Preethi Nair, Author of Gypsy Masala, talks to Yang-May Ooi on Fusion View about self-publishing and what it takes to make a success of the business side of publishing your own book. This is part of the Fusion View series on The Writer as Entrepreneur on www.fusionview.co.uk, in conjunction with Mslexia, the journal for women writers. Preethi created an alter ego Pru Menon to market her book and Pru was so good at her job, she was shortlisted for a publishing industry aware for best publicist of the year. Preethi tells her astonishing story with candour and humour in this lively interview.
Xavier Salomon and Canaletto's 18th century fusion art
11 Mar 2007 @ 08:45 am
Xavier Salomon, the curator of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, talks to Yang-May Ooi on Fusion View, the cross-cultural blog on writing, culture and the arts at www.fusionview.co.uk, about his pan-European roots and Canaletto's 18th century fusion art. Canaletto, a Venetian, came to England in 1746 and stayed for 10 years, painting scenes of English life with his Italian eye. Xavier talks about what Canaletto might have seen in the England of his time and also about his own experiences of Italian art, growing up in Rome and living in New York and London.
The Theory of Everythig - Interview with poet James Wood
7 Jan 2007 @ 06:33 am
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.
An Actor's Life - Walter Plinge Interview
10 Dec 2006 @ 11:58 am
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.
The London Theatre Blog was created by Andrew Eglinton and is full of information, reviews and opinions about all aspects of theatre, with a special focus on the London theatre scene. To find out more, go to www.londontheatreblog.co.uk.
Fusion View was created by me, Yang-May Ooi and is a magazine style blog on writing, culture and the arts with a cross-cultural perspective. It includes guest writers, podcast interviews and prize draws to win books and other gifts. To find out more, go to www.fusionview.co.uk.
A Voice from the Post (podcast from 30 years ago)
26 Oct 2006 @ 07:48 am
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.
Advice from UK Literary Agent, Lucy Luck
20 Aug 2006 @ 06:13 am
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.
Hope: Dana Roskey and the Tesfa Foundation
12 Aug 2006 @ 07:36 am
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.
