Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Barry Yeow relates how art and a mentor named Dan Lim finally helped him find a way out of prison to be a truly free man. He explains the creative role of art and the need to hate things like drugs that destroy people’s lives. He reconciled with his mother and set up an art studio in Commonwealth called 5seventeen. The past, he says, is an asset both to himself and people around him.

00:00 Truly Free

09:07 Art in Prison & My Mentor

12:53 My Mother

24:56 Youngsters & Repeat Offenders

31:03 Kpods

34:50 An Enterprising Cellmate

39:20 5seventeen

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I am Dr Loh Kah Seng, the people’s historian. In Chronicles of Old Singapore, I speak to people about their memories of Singapore before it became a global city.

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