Evening Edition

VAX is an exhibition for local creatives to showcase their work, and giving them to platform and opportunity to expand their services and market their products to markets outside Malaysia. We speak to the masterminds behind such an event to find out more about VAX's potential in boosting the visual arts industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the revelation of our poor standard of the English language displayed in high school workbooks recently, we ask the question: Should the Malaysian government implement English as the medium of instruction in all public schools? We hear the pros and cons from this month's guest debaters.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight, we have yet another name tied with the Malaysian theatre scene, she would be directing one play, whilst acting in another and also spending a bit of time writing another one, she is none other than, Marina Tan!   Marina started out with singing with the Selangor Philharmonic Society Choir. She stayed with an acapella group, Six2Eight for a few years before head diving in the world of...

On Talkback today, we're doing something special. We're going to open up our lines and take in song requests. Give us a call and tell us what songs best describes how you feel about Malaysia today.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight, we’ve had another woman whose name is synonymous with the words Miss Malaysia, in fact, she is the titleholder for Miss Malaysia 2013 and is now the national director of Miss Universe Malaysia Organization; it’s no other than Carey Ng! Born in Putrajaya, the now 27 year old, Carey Ng didn’t venture in the in beauty line till the end of her degree studies. During high sch...

This week on Untitled, we're featuring James Taylor's 1970 studio album, 'Sweet Baby James'. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The May 2015 earthquake in Nepal has not only caused people to be left displaced without homes but has also created a real opportunity for traffickers to carry on with their child trafficking activities. The 'Nepalese Resilience' is a photo exhibition with a focus to raise awareness on the child trafficking problem in Nepal. We spoke to the photographers behind the exhibition to find out more abou...

Tonight we’ve had a talented lady in front of the cameras, when she’s not busy hosting television show for a good part of the week, she’ll be dropping beats and rhymes that’ll defy her small figure. It’s no other than Hunny Madu! or aka Hani Hatim.   Hunny’s talent was shaped way back in school when she was known for singing a lot of R&B during her scho...

Neal Adams. He would define The Bronze Age. He would leave his stylistic mark on the X-Men, Green Lantern, and Superman. He would take Batman, who had become a campy joke at the end of the 1960s, and bring back the brooding Dark Knight long before Frank Miller. He would give us Ra's Al Ghul. He would give us that marvelous fight between Superman and Muhammad Ali. This week - the first in a two par...

After de facto law minister Nancy Shukri announced that marital rape is not a crime, the backlash received was massive and understandably so. We explore marital rape, the laws and the social factors that are holding us back. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight we’re joined by a highly regarded man who had a big hand in shaping the local comedy scene for both Malaysia and Singapore, Jonathan Atherton! This Australian had one heck of a life where his travels since young from the US, Asia, Australia, Central and East Africa.   Jonathan hails from Brisbane, Australia but he grew up in a United Nations housing areas at Queens, New York Cit...

Investigative journalism goes beyond the mere passing on ‘news’ that already exist. It seeks out news, which would be otherwise unavailable without any journalistic intervention. Woodward and Bernstein may be a fading memory, but journalists all over the world continue to breaking blockbuster stories, one after another, taking great risks to shine much needed light on shadowy wrongdoin...

Tonight, we got the slick tongued, freedom of speech advocate, the humorous rap battle fighter, Tang Eu-Jin or better known as Jin Hackman! We see if this banana could tackle tonight’s Smartypants without breaking his flow.   Funny enough, Jin’s stage name was a word play on the actor’s name, Gene Hackman. He was bored with getting people confused by with his last stage name...

10 days ago President Barack Obama announced that Iran and a group of six nations led by the United States had reached a historic accord to significantly limit Tehran’s nuclear ability. The deal culminates 20 months of negotiations on an agreement that President Obama had long sought as the biggest diplomatic achievement of his presidency. Whether it portends a new relationship between the U...

Tonight we’re joined by an Englishman that’s not Richard for once! 8TV Quickie host, football fanatic in his own right and former boyband singer, Mark O’Dea!   Ever since he was a young boy, he was trained in musical theatre. Got into his first West End show in London when he was only 11 years old at the London Palladium for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Swiftly by 12 years of ag...

A recent survey carried out by HSBC saw 88% of parents opting to send their children overseas to pursue their tertiary education. This despite the mounting cost of education these days, on top of the escalating cost of living as well. But is an overseas education the only way to guarantee your child's future? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight in our studio, we’ve had a man whose looks are as sharp as he is on the violin with his rendition of Vivaldi’s Summer, Josh Kua! With that note, Josh seems like the embodiment of a well-rounded man when you’d factor in he has a bachelor in both law and commerce!   Josh was born in Kuala Lumpur but was raised in Melbourne, Australia giving him a slight Aussie accent t...

It features an hour of live Aerosmith music including their 1978 Live! Bootleg album as well as the 1998 live album called A Little South of Sanity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we take a look at the “Bad Boys from Boston”, and “America’s Greatest rock and Roll Band”. Signed to Columbia records in 1972, Aerosmith have five platinum albums, charted a dozen Hot 100 singles, and etched their name as one of the most popular rock and roll bands in the world. We look at their journey, how drug addiction and internal conflict wreaked havoc...

Tonight in our studios, we’ve have the lady who was shot into TV fame by representing Malaysian on the premiere cycle season one of Asia’s Next Top Model, Melissa Th’ng!   It all started with a casual joke between Melissa and her friend, Bella, about joining in the auditions for the first Asia’s Next Top Model premiere season. From one thing to another, an interview in...

Paul Levitz is a legend in the comic book business. Writer. Editor. He was president of DC Comics from 2002–2009. He has been with the company for over 35 years. Along with publisher Jenette Kahn and managing editor Dick Giordano, Paul Levitz was responsible for hiring such writers as Marv Wolfman and Alan Moore, artists such as George Pérez, Keith Giffen, and John Byrne. He was a key...

Khairul Hizam Harun used to work for an NGO teaching art to underprivileged kids. As with most charitable efforts however, funding was never reliable. So he went in search of a better, more sustainable model - today he heads Karya, a social enterprise that funds art lessons for children in shelter homes, through private art classes, that people pay for. All the funds they make get ploughed back in...

As like any other Monday; tonight on That Time Of Night, we’ve got another comedian in the studio. He’s the only Malaysian comic who prides himself on lowering the vulgarity of his jokes and strangely enough, according to the Malaysian Guiness Book Of Records, the first comedian to perform on a flight, Andrew Netto!   Born and raised in Petaling Jaya, Andrew grew with a father who...

Blues dancing has been around as long as the music. With roots that combine elements of both African and European partnered dance, it’s slow, it’s often close, and it’s intense - in the 40s, people used to call ‘slow dragging’. In the studio today talking to us about the global Blues Dancing movement is Dave Madison. A resident of San Francisco in the US, he started B...

Tonight in the studio, we’ve had the celebrated Malaysian actor playwright who is affectionately known as our own version of Oscar Wilde, Jit Murad! For a man whose name is now synonymous with Malaysian theater’s growth, Jit never did any theater before and during his university days. It is only after that degree in Urban Sociology, Jit stepped in the limelight and never looked back. H...