Fusion View Podcast Podcasts

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A cross-cultural view on writing, culture and the arts including interviews with filmmakers, poets and writers and discussion of cross-cultural issues Primary Format : Ethnic Also Listed as: Ethnic City : LONDON State/Province : Unknown Country : United Kingdom Country : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Fusion View Podcast Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Fusion View Podcast Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Fusion View Podcast Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Not allowing blogging to kill me 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UK earthquake - an exciting non-event? Some personal thoughts on the big news of the day - the UK earthquake on 27 Feb 2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preethi Nair, Author of Gypsy Masala 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Xavier Salomon and Canaletto's 18th century fusion art 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 Ital ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Theory of Everythig - Interview with poet James Wood 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Actor's Life - Walter Plinge Interview 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 th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Voice from the Post (podcast from 30 years ago) 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advice from UK Literary Agent, Lucy Luck 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hope: Dana Roskey and the Tesfa Foundation 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mahdi Mozaffari, Iranian-Welsh film student Yang-May Ooi, cultural commentator and creator of Fusion View, the East/ West blog on writing, culture and the arts at www.fusionview.co.uk talks to film student Mahdi Mozaffari about being Iranian and Welsh and the portrayal of Iran by filmmakers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website True Grit and a Pair of Scissors - Winnie Loo Interview 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, Mala ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Voices - Yang-May Ooi 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Tell a Good Story - in conversation with Terry Bailey 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? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Tell a Good Story - in conversation with Terry Bailey 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? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dishad Husain Interview - Director of award-winning short film"Holly Bolly" 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pey Colborne Interview 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website