Saturday Mornings with Glenn van Zutphen

🌍MoneyFM 89.3’s Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen talks with Maureen Fan, CEO and co‑founder of Baobab Studios about how the 10X Emmy‑winning, Oscar‑nominated powerhouse is redefining storytelling at the intersection of animation, gaming, and AI. Maureen shares how Baobab blends top Hollywood creative talent (who were responsible for all four Madagascar movies, ANTZ, Moana,...

🌍On this F1 Weekend in Singapore MoneyFM 89.3’s  Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen talks with  Kabir Anurag, the 19 year-old Singaporean Formula Regional racing driver and Alpine Academy talent. This extraordinary young man shares what life is really like behind the paddock gates, on the race track at 300km/per hour, the brutal training, the dangers, and the sacrifices...

🌍On World Health Day, MoneyFM 89.3’s Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen talks with  mental health advocate and author, Andrea McKenna Brankin with her practical, deeply local guide to improving your mental wellbeing in Singapore. We explore six powerful, accessible practices: Meditating at the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple; slowing down through forest bathing on the Botanic Gard...

🌍On World Health Day, MoneyFM 89.3’s Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen talks with SCWO CEO Koh Yan Pin and Dr Sherry Aw from James Cook University Singapore , co‑authors of a new landmark study examining the mental wellbeing of midlife women. Surveying nearly 500 women, the study reveals a stark reality: workplace stress, family conflict, relationship challenges, and caregiving...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s International News Review, Steve Okun  joins Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen and begin with Singapore’s hazardous haze, now thick enough to threaten Formula One weekend plans and spark fresh debate about climate catastrophe, regional accountability, and whether Southeast Asia is prepared for a future of permanent smoke seasons. Then to...

🌍MoneyFM 89.3’s  Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen talks with Asian Civilisations Museum’s Curator Louise Lui to look at  one of the  most ambitious exhibitions yet: Sacred Caves: Dunhuang, Buddhism, and the Silk Road . Dunhuang was the desert oasis that became one of the world’s most important crossroads of art, religion, and trade. The exhibition exp...

🌍MoneyFM 89.3’s Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen talks with Wall Street Journal senior reporter Jon Emon about one of the most astonishing business‑and‑geopolitics stories of the year: how Driscoll’s brought blueberries to China and China copied the entire playbook. Fifteen years ago, Driscoll’s entered Yunnan with elite genetics, high‑tech growing systems, and a vi...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s  Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen talks with Prof. Yucheng Lin, Assistant Professor of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong about recent reports that  Swiss glaciers have lost more than 5% of their ice after a record heatwave, and new research shows that Antarctica’s ice loss is now locked in. Extra snowfall won’t save...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s International News Review, Steve Okun  joins Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen to begin with the extraordinary account of Flydubai captain Smit Machchhar, who fought through stab wounds to unlock the cockpit door and help save 174 passengers during an attempted mid‑air sabotage. His words “I couldn’t let everybody else die”  h...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3 James Thoo, writer‑director of The Sandbox , and Peps Goh, the film’s co‑lead and stunt supervisor. join Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen takes you inside one of Singapore’s most anticipated films of 2026: "The Sandbox," an irreverent, laugh‑out‑loud mockumentary about small businesses, big dreams, and the communities that fight to survive. The film...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3 Jacqueline Tan, CEO of the Singapore Cruise Centre  joins Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen to spotlight one of Singapore’s biggest travel and infrastructure upgrades of the year: the official opening of the new Singapore Cruise Centre (HarbourFront). Jacqueline Tan led the transformation of one of the nation’s most important gateways for region...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3 Hari V. Krishnan, co‑founder and CEO of Genie Health joins Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen   to dive into one of the most exciting shifts in personal healthcare: health intelligence. Singapore start up Genie Health has launched a two‑sided platform: Genie for consumers and Genie SmartCare for providers. They are designed to turn fragmented medical data in...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s International News Review, Steve Okun  joins Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen where they begin in Washington, where President Trump rolled out the red carpet as China’s Xi Jinping arrived for a high‑stakes state visit. From bilateral trade to pandas, Steve breaks down what both leaders want, what neither can afford to lose, and why the airpor...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3 Kalai Vanan Balakrishnan, President of ACRES, the organisation at the front lines of protecting wildlife and raising awareness about animal welfare joins Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen to discuss two major stories this week in Singapore: NParks’ dramatic seizure of 101 illegal pets from a residential unit including axolotls, tortoises, frogs, exotic fis...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3 H.E. Peter Storer, Ambassador of Austria to Singapore and Kenneth Tan, Pres, Singapore Film Society join Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen to look at the  first‑ever  Austrian Film Festival in Singapore, celebrating 60 years of Austria–Singapore diplomatic relations. Running from 18–27 September, the festival showcases seven films that go f...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3 Tara Strunk, General Manager of the American Association of Singapore and Paula Salles Ferreira from the  Bukit Timah Saddle Club join Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen to talk about a mix of culture, sport, and community as Singapore gears up for the annual Fall Fest, a uniquely American celebration set against one of Singapore’s most beautiful eques...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s International News Review, Steve Okun joins Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen to unpack a week where Southeast Asian diplomacy, global justice, and viral oddities collide. Thailand’s push for Myanmar’s full return to ASEAN is a move that could reshape regional unity and test the bloc’s long‑standing principle of non‑interferen...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s Singapore Home Brew Segment Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen explores the  extraordinary intersection of craft, sustainability, music with German master luthier Jens Ritter. His custom guitars have been played by Prince, Lady Gaga, Madonna and Dave Grohl. Joining Jens was  Jessica Cheam, Founder & CEO of Eco‑Business and Chair of EB Impact...

Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen talks with Eric Olander, co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The China Global South Project ... one of the world’s most respected independent platforms tracking China’s engagement across Africa, Asia and the developing world. We begin with the India–China reset ahead of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi. As the world grapples with the Ukrai...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s International News Review, Steve Okun joins Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11, as the U.S. marks a quarter‑century since the attacks that reshaped global security. Steve reflects on how terrorism threats have evolved and why Singapore’s Internal Security Department (ISD) warning that the terror threat rem...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s The Wide Angle Segment, David Kelly, Executive Director of BritCham Singapore, and Soren Nikolajsen, Managing Director for Government & Industry Engagement, Defence & Trade at NatWest joins  Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen to dive into one of the most ambitious cross‑border innovation programmes shaping the future of UK–Singapore tra...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s Home Brew segment Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen welcome's 19 year-old Singaporean  Heema Izzati, singer‑songwriter, multi‑instrumentalist, and newly minted Creative Future Impact Award recipient . Heema has already released her debut EP, collaborated with Sezairi, Charlie Lim and Rahimah Rahim, and performed at the National Day Parade and the Es...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s Leaders in Action Segment, General Manager Richard Margo joins Saturday Mornings Show  host Glenn van Zutphen to discuss  the new Mövenpick Resort & Spa Bintan Lagoon, and how Bintan is trying to move from a weekend escape into a full‑scale tourism destination. W ith 408 rooms, restaurants, a beach club, Recreation Village, Spa, two golf courses, and mo...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s Singapore Home Brew,  Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen s potlights Adriel Yap, Singapore’s only pipe‑organ builder and restorer working in the UK with Harrison & Harrison Ltd. He's restored some of Europe’s most historic organs while training as a music therapist at Nordoff & Robbins - the UK’s largest music therapy charity Adri...

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s The Wide Angle Author Cindy Tien and Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen look at the emotional engine behind human behaviour and her new book " InSide: Break Through Your BS to Influence Yourself ."  It’s a book about self‑awareness, accountability, and dismantling the stories we tell ourselves before trying to influence others. Cindy explains her BS...