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’.