1095

1095

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1095 episodes

  • From Sinatra to soaps to everything Down Town - a conversation with Tony Hatch

    From Head Chorister at All Souls, Langham Place, London and a musical education firmly rooted in the classics, Tony took a job as a tea boy in a small London music publishing company and thereby began a career which established him as one of the UK’s leading arrangers, conductors and record producers and a world-famous composer of popular songs and music for television.  

    For Tony's full bio visit his website: http://tonyhatch.co.uk/

    40 min
  • One Giant Leap with Duncan Bridgeman

    Duncan Bridgeman is a double Grammy nominated filmmaker and musician. born in London to Leslie and Zena Bridgeman.  

    Bridgeman has composed and produced music for 20 years, working on a diverse musical journey. His first break into filmmaking came from Island Records/Palm Pictures owner Chris Blackwell, making the Grammy nominated cult hit 1 Giant Leap. 

    In 2004, Simon Fuller of 19 Entertainment funded second 1 Giant Leap, film titled "What about me?". Bridgeman quickly followed with the award winning film Hecho en Mexico, funded by Mexican media mogul Bernardo Gomez. Most recently Bridgeman directed and produced the East Meets West, a documentary film for The Smithsonian Institution about the Kumbh Mela, largest Hindu festival on the planet, with actor Dominic West (The Wire) as presenter.  

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    58 min
  • Chatting character motivations and fighting Ryan Gosling - with Vithaya Pansringarm

    Vithaya Pansringarm is a Thai actor best known for appearing in Only God Forgives. He is also known in Thailand as "Pu Vithaya".  

    Pu graduated in Graphic Design from New York Institute of Technology. He holds a 5th Degree Black Belt (5 DAN) in Kendo (a Japanese martial art) and is President of the Thailand Kendo Club.  In June 2014, he won Best Actor at the Shanghai International Film Festival for his role as Chavoret in 

    The Last Executioner, a film based on the true life story of Thailand's last person to carry out executions by gun. The film also won 'Best Picture' and 'Best Screen Play' at the 30th Surasawadi Awards in 2015.

    39 min
  • Saving kids and executing prisoners - chatting with screenwriter Don Linder

    Don Linder, a native New Yorker, is an award-winning scriptwriter, fiction and travel writer, and academic who has lived and worked on five continents. He did his BA and MA degrees at Columbia University where he studied film theory with the critic Andrew Sarris. 

    Don's first feature-length film, "The Last Executioner," has its world premiere when it was invited to compete at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2014, where it received Best Actor honors. On 2 June 2015 "The Last Executioner" received the Best Film and Best Screenplay Awards at Thailand's prestigious Tukkata Tong Awards -- the equivalent of the Golden Globes -- which have been given since 1958 when the King of Thailand attended the ceremonies, and they are still considered royal awards. Don was the first non-Thai to win a Tukkata Tong Award for Scriptwriting, and only the second non-Thai to win in any category in 58 years. 

    Don has also written for a Japanese-American television series, a Discover Channel documentary on Angkor Wat, a pilot for an American sitcom, educational programming and more. Don's creative and academic work span a broad spectrum. He has directed academic departments in the U.S., the Canary Islands, China, and Thailand; headed writing programs at Poets & Writers, Inc., the State University of New York, and the North Carolina Arts Council; produced and hosted jazz and blues radio programs in NYC; lectured on Western culture on Radio Beijing; mounted several one-person photography shows; acted in several films, and more, including a stint as a New York City taxi driver in the 1970s. He has taught and evaluated script writing worldwide in such diverse locations as Egypt, Mongolia, Brazil, Thailand, and the U.S. He lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with his wife Wannida Jiratha.

    For more information on Don click on his IMDB channel:

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    33 min
  • Books, movies and hipsters on a mission to poison you - chatting with J.D. Strange

    Who is J.D. STRANGE?  

    J.D. STRANGE is an English novelist, journalist, broadcaster, filmmaker, pod-caster, and story-teller based in Bangkok, Thailand. Strange has written and produced for the page, stage, online, and onscreen. Creating entertaining media for as long as he can remember, midwifing various projects from cradle to production, J.D. Strange is one of Bangkok's most active creatives.   

    Website: https://www.jdstrange.com 

    Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/jd.strange.37 

    Twitter: @strange_jd

    52 min
  • From The Office to Eastenders to coaching corporate leaders - chatting with Joel Beckett

    Joel Beckett is a well known actor from the small screen, best known for playing the role of Lee, Dawn's fiancée, in the multi-award winning comedy classic The Office and is also well known for the role of Jake Moon in EastEnders.

    Joel has been working as a voiceover artist since 2006, and has worked on countless projects for TV and radio, commercials, documentaries, films, corporate narration and TV promos.

    https://www.joelbeckett.com

    43 min
  • From disco to techno to Thailand's beaches - chatting with DJ Graham Gold

    Graham Gold is a British DJ. Gold is primarily known as a DJ whose sets were broadcast live Friday nights on Kiss (UK radio station) and distributed on the Universal Music TV label. Those weekly live broadcasts were considered revolutionary in the industry. Gold's popular weekly show played a major role in Kiss FM growing into a radio powerhouse. Gold was ranked No. 83 by Dash Berlin in Dash's "Most Popular DJs in the World of All Time."  

    Graham currently lives in Thailand where he DJ's and produces music.

    1 hr 10 min

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