Evening Edition

In his new self titled-album, former member of One Direction, Harry Styles, takes a more serious rock-based approach with critics comparing the sounds of the album to artists like Bowie, Elton John, and The Beatles. This week on (Untitled), Uma and Ezra explore this promising debut of Styles which include tracks like the lead single "Sign of the Times", and “Meet Me in the Hallway”.

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Fidget spinners- the latest gadget to get all the kids (and some of the adults) in a tizzy. A sociologist who studies fads and a clinical psychologist who advocates fidgeting tell us what they think.

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Happily Ever After? -- the show where we revisit the fairy tales we fell in love with once upon a time. A recent advertising kerfuffle has revived or reintroduced Malaysians to Dayang Senandung, an old Malay folklore that tells the tale of a cursed princess with a melodious voice. Is it a moral tale about society's obsession with outer beauty, or a blatant account of racism and prejudice against skin colour?

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Uma explores the vibrant world of Korean cuisine with journalist, world traveler, and avid eater Graham Holliday.

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The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) expects to see a rise in cyber-bullying cases if online violent content is not blocked, said its Network Security, New Media Monitoring, Compliance and Advocacy Sector chief officer Dr. Mazlan Ismail. But is there a relationship between violent media content and cyber-bullying? We speak with educational psychologist Tan Cheng Yi, Head Psychologist at Oasis Place.

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The results from the UK election was a surprising one. Many polls had predicted that Theresa May and her Conservative party would win by a landslide and the other major party, Labour, would be wiped out. The opposite happened. The Conservatives lost their majority and now the UK has a hung parliament. How stable is the government, especially now that they enter the Brexit negotiations with a weaker mandate? We speak to Professor Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London to find out the reasons why this was the result, what it means for Brexit negotiations, and why pollsters got it wrong again.

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The episode where Uma - and special guests Iain McNally and Bahir Yeusuff - pay tribute to the late, great, Adam West.

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The episode where Uma - and special guest Iain McNally - wonder if there are still many laughs left in the Despicable Me franchise of films.

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The episode where Uma - and special guest Iain McNally - review Train Station, a piece of experimental cinema that features 40 directors, 40 actors, and was shot in 25 different locations around the world.

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The episode where Uma speaks to special guests Tony Pietra and Zalee about their contribution to the collaborative feature film Train Station.

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