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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

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#023 The Fourth Plinth

In today's show: My running is back on track - hurray! I talk about my aim to enjoy the process of running and not set any race or marathon goals in case my overly goal-focused personality hijacks the whole purpose of this hobby - which is to have fun! Inspired by Matt's You Are There segment, over at his rundiggerrun podcast, I start an occasional series My Local London, where I share with you some places in London which I find interesting, curious or are just plain nice to hang out in. Today...

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[ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:41:09 +0100 ]

Sunday in the Allotment with Mick

In today's show: I'm still not able to run but fortunately, have a lot of other fun things to distract me. My sister and I take my mum to Strasbourg for her 70th birthday treat - that's Strasbourg in France, not Salzberg in Austria - and find few tourists and a lot of great shopping in the city's lovely medieval streets. Back at home, we watch Running the Sahara, a documentary about three guys who run across Africa from Senegal to Egypt and the Red Sea. Our friend Mick, the beekeeper, gives...

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[ Fri, 22 May 2009 13:12:59 +0100 ]

Not Running but Socializing

In today's show: I check out the live phoneblogging platform Ipadio - http://www.ipadio.com - with some live phoneblogs on my mobile phone. I'm feeling sorry for myself as I have done something to my leg and can't run - to my great dismay. But socializing with friends keeps me entertained. Some of the sites and friends I mention are: # Kenny who blogs at http://lifeforbeginners.com/, visits from Malaysia and tells me about "foodcrawls", the greedy person's equivalant of pubcrawls # An energ...

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[ Thu, 14 May 2009 15:34:00 +0100 ]

The Fun Run of Life

In today's show: It's the day of my first 5k fun run in aid of Goodrich Primary School (http://www.friendsofgoodrich.com/index.html )and also the day of the London Marathon http://www.london-marathon.co.uk/site/. I share my experiences of the day and also discover an insight into an aspect of my personality during the fun run - which shows me a trait in my character that is with me in my life outside of running....

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[ Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:59:22 +0100 ]

Running Stream of Consciousness

In today's show: I take a look inside Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novels and question how they fare alongside the stream of consciousness style of running podcasts. Yes, Fusion View is all about high culture and fitness...! The running podcasts I mention are: http://runningfromthereaper.blogspot.com/ - Running from the Reaper http://texafornia.squarespace.com/ - Zen and the Art of Triathlon http://parkedthoughts.com/ - Running with the Pack http://www.rundiggerrun.com/Run_Digger_...

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[ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:34:12 +0100 ]

Candlelight and Starting Running

In this episode of the Fusion View podcast, I report back on how we spent Earth Hour the other Saturday. Also, how I got started running - and how I hope to keep on running! I'd love to hear from runners about how they got the running bug and how they kept going - you can send me an email or voicemail by going to my Contact page at http://www.fusionview.co.uk/contact. If your message is right for the show, I'll read it or play in on the next Fusion View podcast!...

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[ Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:40:43 +0100 ]

Phoneblog - Pocket PC versus iPhone for mobile blogging

Phoneblogging without internet connection - using Pocket PC mobile phone without much success but an iPhone saves the day....

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[ Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:29:41 +0000 ]

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...

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[ Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:22:37 +0100 ]

UK earthquake - an exciting non-event?

Some personal thoughts on the big news of the day - the UK earthquake on 27 Feb 2008...

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[ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:43:33 +0000 ]

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....

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[ Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:04:31 +0100 ]

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 Italian a...

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[ Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:45:55 +0000 ]

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. ...

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[ Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:33:48 +0000 ]

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 the cha...

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[ Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:58:54 +0000 ]

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 the ...

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[ Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:48:08 +0100 ]

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 View...

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[ Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:13:50 +0100 ]

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....

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[ Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:36:59 +0100 ]

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....

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[ Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:33:07 +0100 ]

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, Malaysia ...

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[ Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:15:46 +0100 ]

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....

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[ Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:50:16 +0100 ]

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?...

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[ Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:35:01 +0100 ]

How to Tell a Good Story - in conversation with Terry Bailey

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[ Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:19:32 +0100 ]

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....

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[ Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:29:50 +0100 ]

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....

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In the Garden and Earth Hour

I've revitalised the Fusion View podcast with some new theme music and a fresh energy.This episode, I talk about gardening and hammering snails to death. Also, join me - and the global community - inEarth Hour, coming up 8.30pm local time (wherever you are in the world) Saturday 28 March 2009....

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Getting Physical

In today's show:Getting Physical - April and the London Marathon is coming up. An old friend Matthew emails to say that will be his second marathon this year already! I experience the joy of physicality as my running stamina improves but still can’t help ordering lots of books. Commuter Dead Time - What do youdo to pass the dead time during your daily commute? Read? Shave? Put on make-up? Blog? Lazing on the Sofa - Taking the time to loaf around doing nothing on a rainy long weekend, I feel ...

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