Chapter 30 - 31st December 2019

Shanthini Venugopal/Jyotsna Prakash/Ghafir Akbar/Ann Lee/William De Cruz/Anne James

Wishing all our listeners a Very Happy New Year!!

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Poem by Shanthini 'New Year’s Day', accompanied by music composed by Jyotsna Prakash titled 'Sukhi'.
Ghafir Akbar with an excerpt from Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, 
Ann Lee with The Road not taken by Robert Frost
William de Cruz with his composition God’s Little Graces(music)
Anne James with Grandmother’s Button Jar by Naomi Schakowsky 

Chapter 29- 24th December 2019

December 24, 2019

Sukania Venugopal/Shanthini Venugopal

Today’s Chapter with Christmas stories is dedicated to our listeners, friends and family from all over the world –Wishing you a Blessed Christmas and Compliments of the season.

SUKANIA VENUGOPAL -One Christmas Night
SHANTHINI VENUGOPAL - Reindeer's First Christmas
SUKANIA VENUGOPAL - One Magical Christmas

Gift a Story 2 16th December 2019

Jo Kukathas/Sukania Venugopal/Ghafir Akbar/Yasmin Yusuff/Tina Issacs

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Why not Gift a Story for a momentous occasion be it a birthday, anniversary, festivals or just to say ‘you’re in my thoughts today’. 

Gift a Story has 14 award winning writers and performing artists who are our readers for your stories

Today you’re listening to soundbites for Jo Kukathas, Sukania Venugopal, Gaffir Akbar, Yasmin Yusuff and Tina Isaacs. 

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Gift a Story 1-13th December 2019

GIFT A STORY

Looking for a Unique Gift?

Why not Gift a Story for a momentous occasion be it a birthday, anniversary, festivals or just to say ‘you’re in my thoughts today’.

Gift a Story has 14 award winning writers and performing artists who are our readers for your stories

Today's Chapter features Chacko Vadeketh, Ann Lee, Manomaniam, Dr Lee Su Kim & Dauk Zahim Albakri Visit our website www.storytimejjb.com, click Gift a Story to fill out a short questionnaire and you're halfway there to gift a story to your loved one.

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Chapter 28 - 27th November 2019

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The Selfish Giant and other stories

Sukania Venugopal (Malaysia) with an Oscar Wilde classic ‘The Selfish Giant’ about what happens when you open your heart and let love in.

Jennifer Pahl Otto (US) ‘How the pig came to stay at my house’, she wrote this when she had insomnia one night and an image of a Pig hijacked her brain and by morning she had an almost reliable story

Isaac Ho (Malaysia) with his song ‘Sanctuary’ where you want to be close to someone but you're afraid that you’ll get hurt by getting too close but you still want to try.

Chapter 27 - 14th November 2019

'The Birthday Wish' and other stories

Patrick Teoh/Yasmin Yusuff/Oba William King
Azmyl Yunor/Anna Fancett

CELEBRITY HOST: Patrick Teoh

Yasmin Yusuff (Malaysia) poem by Rod McKuen, 'The Coming of the Rain' about relationships

Oba William King (US) ‘The Birthday Wish’ to encourage the listener and uplift a spirit that might be wondering if wishes ever come true. 

Anna Fancett (UK) 'Death under a Tree' from Chaucer’s Canterbury tales. Its humour and simple moral make it accessible for children, but the message remains shocking even to an adult audience 

Azmyl Yunor (Malaysia) story and song 'Bersenderilah' translates to ‘Solitary’ in English. It is about being yourself and not following the herd. It’s a rallying call against herd and mob mentality which often plague societies! 

Chapter 26 - 31st October 2019

‘The Black Cat of Getliffes Yard’ and other stories

Johnny Gillett/Host ShanV

It’s Halloween at StoryTime with The Jumping JellyBeans!.  

Warlock Johnny Gillett is with us & he has 3 spooky tales from the UK.
‘The Witch of Kelsall’- listen to what happens to a young man who interrupts the bed time of an old woman, Alice Cawley. 

‘The Black Cat of Getliffes Yard’ about 2 witches –one who is a baker and the other a fortune teller 

‘Ginny Green Teeth’ about what happens to some boys when they wander off to a lake and encounter Ginny Green Teeth!

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Chapter 25 - 14th October 2019

‘FRANGIPANI’ and other stories

                                         Manomaniam/NupurAggrawal/Isaac Ho

HAPPY DEEPAVALI TO ALL OUR LISTENERS!

Manomaniam (Malaysia) Story titled ‘Frangipani’ written by Dr. Lee Su Kim. Frangipani is a story about a taxi driver who picks up a passenger in the dead of the night. It’s like an episode from The Twilight Zone.

Nupur Aggrawal (India) Folktale from China titled ‘The Empty Pot’. It’s about an ageing Emperor who needs to find a successor

StoryTime Music has Isaac Ho (Malaysia) with his story and song ‘Island Life’

CHAPTER 24 - 1st October 2019

Dhiya Menon (Malaysia ) ‘The Magic Waterfall’, Hiranya Menon (Malaysia) ‘The Drought’, Shobha Janardanan (Malaysia) ‘The Artist’, Shobha Janardanan her story and song ‘Oru Nodiyil’(translation-In the Blink of an Eye)

Dhiya Menon/Hiranya Menon/Shobha Janardanan

8 year old Dhiya Menon (Malaysia ) with ‘The Magic Waterfall’ about how one should be careful when making a wish as it just might come true but with dire consequences.

11 year old Hiranya Menon (Malaysia) with her original story ‘The Drought’ about how animals in a forest work together to overcome a drought.

Shoba Janardanan (Malaysia) tells a story titled ‘The Artist’ about connections made between an artiste and fan, showing the depth of relationships forged through learning music.

StoryTime Music features Shobha Janardanan her story and song ‘Oru Nodiyil’ (English translation ‘In the Blink of an Eye’)

CHAPTER 23 20th September 2019

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Our storytellers today are Oni Lasana (USA) who tells her story ‘Love must fall’ about how some people fall in love to fulfil their fantasy.

Johnny Gillett(UK) with a Brazilian folktale ‘Monkey and the Fruit’ which is about a luscious fruit that is desired by all the animals in the forest and the great lengths they go to, to taste it.

Rona Mentari (Indonesia) with her folktale ‘The Story of Ma’. It is has a young man Manana Makardi falling in love with a young lady Insoraki and how their Love heals all Pain.

StoryTime Music features Heerraa (Malaysia), with her original song titled ‘Victorious’ about never giving up until you reach your destiny.

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Chapter 22 - 11th September 2019

‘What a song’ and other stories

 Shanthini Venugopal/Roger Jenkins/Sonia Bareja Punhani/Square Circles

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Shanthini Venugopal (Malaysia) about Onam Festival

Roger Jenkins (Singapore) with a story from India titled ‘Two Indian Brothers’. A tale about 2 brothers and how they carried out their father’s wishes which he told them from his deathbed.

Sonia Bareja Punhani (India) with her folktale titled ‘What a song’ . It’s about a lady who never sang. She wanted to sing but she didn’t know and songs. She asks her husband to buy her a song from the market as she doesn’t know any. When she finally does get a song, find out what happens when she starts singing.

Square Circles (Malaysia) is on StoryTime music about some robbers that wanted to rob a house, titled ‘When the robbers came’

CHAPTER 21 - 28th August 2019

                                            August 28, 2019

Yasmin Yusuff/Rebecca Lemaire/Shreedevi Sunil/Sheela Haran/ Beverly Matujal

Celebrity Guest Host, Yasmin Yusuff (Malaysia)

Rebecca Lemaire (UK) with her story ‘Anansi’. An Akan folktale character, Anansi is the King of Stories. Listen to how we all became storytellers!

Shreedevi Sunil (India) with ‘Tiki Tiki Tembo’. A tale from China which tells us why the Chinese have short names.

Sheela Haran (Malaysia) with ‘The Island’ This story, was inspired by the prompts Hungry and Sunset. The story is about people who wanted things to happen, but when they were tasked with doing certain things to make it happen, suddenly the excuses started coming out

StoryTime Music features Beverly Matujal (Malaysia) with her story and song ‘Escalate’

Chapter 20 - 21st August 2019

Jackie Kerin/Johhny Gillett/Chelsia Ng

Jackie Kerin  (Australia) with ‘Edith’s Lyrebird’ which is based on the true story of a special trust that developed between Edith and a wild bird in the 1920s.
Johhny Gillett (UK) with ‘Turtle’s Shell’ from the Caribbean Islands. It tells you why turtles have a cracked shell.

Chelsia Ng (Malaysia) with her story and song titled- ‘Come back home’

CHAPTER 19 - 14th August 2019

Dance exponent January Low (Malaysia) tells her story ‘The Dance that Flows through my Veins” where she recounts the moment it dawned on her that she was born to dance. 
Oni Lasana (USA) tells her story ‘I dreamt Martin Luther King Jr., presented through Spoken Word Song. Her story is inspired by Martin Luther King's speech "I had a dream'- She draws parallels of his dream to her own dream of present day life. 
StoryTime Music features Amrita Soon with her story and song titled ‘Patterson’.

CHAPTER 18 - 7th August 2019

Jennifer Pahl Otto (USA) with her original story ‘Molly’s Bubble’, Johnny Gillett (United Kingdom) with ‘Birds and Colours’.

 Storytime music, Chelsia Ng (Malaysia) with her story and song, ‘Here with You’ 

CHAPTER 17 - 31st July 2019

We have two professional storytellers, Sowmya Srinivasan (India) with folktale ‘The Fly who forgot his name’ and Shreedevi Sunil (India) with 'The Why Why Girl’

Storytime Music has Chelsia Ng (Malaysia) with her story and song ‘Ku Rela’

CHAPTER 16 - 24th July 19

Anne Shimojima from the US with her Japanese folktale, ‘Luck from Heaven and Earth’, Gina Fernandez from Malaysia  with an excerpt from ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’

On Storytime Music, Square Circles from Malaysia with the story and song titled ‘Paint it in Grey’.

CHAPTER 15 - 17th July 2019

Stories from professional story tellers Jackie Kerin from Australia with ‘Phar Lap the Wonder Horse’ and Antonio Rocha from the US with ‘Uncle Pepe’s Alligator’. Storytime music features a Malaysian band, Square Circles with the story and song titled, Shades of Indigo. 

CHAPTER 14 - July 10th 2019

Banumathy from India with ‘How Patil’s buffalo turned into a cockrel', her daughter Yazhini Hariprasad with ‘Birbal the Cleverest’, Carolina Quiroga- Stultz from Argentina with ‘The Eternal Wanderer of La Pampa’ and Chelsia Ng with her song 'Pick up the Phone'.

CHAPTER 13 - July 3rd 2019

Anne Shimojima with 'The Crane Wife' and Lopamudra Mohanty with 'The Dissatisfied Tree'.

StoryTime Music - Amrita Soon with her original composition “Midnight in Paris”.