Evening Edition

Perlis-born Eizaz Azhar's life changed when he opened his own music store, Guitar Empire, at the tender age of 20. Since then, the store has expanded from a small shop lot in a mall into an actual empire that sells almost any musical instrument you can think of. When he isn't busy managing his business and completing his MBA, he plays in a jazz funk band, Junk. He kindly allocated some time on his busy schedule to tell us how he ended up leaving school when he was 14 years old and what he has achieved since doing so.

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The Beauty and the Beast debacle has been the topic of discussion this whole week. Our Film Censorship Board (LPF) has said the film is good to go with the inclusion of a minor edit. But in the end, film distributor Walt Disney decided to pull the film off our screens altogether, rejecting the cuts made. So on Talkback today, we're asking: What should or shouldn't be censored in our cinemas? Our lines will be open.

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Some people may think Cheryl Fernando and Sangeeta Krishnasamy are the same person because, well, they are the same person in the new movie, Adiwiraku which is based on true events. Cheryl taught for Teach for Malaysia whilst Sangeeta is a famed actress who portrays Cheryl's character in the movie. We get the chance to hear from Sangeeta's perspective what the whole filming process was like, and why the students' stories are so special.

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This week, on (Untitled), Ezra and Uma celebrate U2's deeply conflicted look at America on its thirtieth birthday. The Joshua Tree was an album made by four outsiders both in love and enraged with the place, by four outsiders who were inspired by the country’s theoretical potential but also saw what its foreign policy wrought in South America and Africa, by four outsiders who grew to understand that the same vast expanses of the United States that one might characterize as the Promised Land also sheltered brutality and violence in so many of its corners.

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Last year, there was a massive scandal that plagued the crossword world. It came to light that Timothy Parker, editor of one of America's most widely syndicated crosswords, had edited more than 60 individual puzzles that copy elements from New York Times puzzles, often with pseudonyms for bylines.

Umapagan Ampikaipakan speaks to Oliver Roeder from fivethirtyeight.com about plagiarism in the crossword world and just how often such scandals occur.

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There’s no doubt that we’re in an era of the cult of the entrepreneur. But what often gets lost in these entrepreneurship conversations is that the most common shared trait among entrepreneurs is access to financial capital - family money, an inheritance, or a pedigree and connections that allow for access to financial stability. While it seems that entrepreneurs tend to have an admirable penchant for risk, it’s usually that access to money which allows them to take risks.

Umapagan Ampikaipakan speaks to Scott Stern - the David Sarnoff Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management - to find out if this is true.

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Ganesh Muren is an intelligent engineer and founder of Saora Industries, which is a social enterprise inspired by the dire need of clean and safe drinking water for the masses in rural and marginalised communities. He takes the time to talk to us about what drove him to start Saora Industries and how all of us can help out.

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2℃ is a show where we talk about how climate change is affecting us today, why our everyday choices matter, and what we can do to mitigate those consequences. On this episode, we explore the Paris Agreement and its aim to keep global warming below 2C above pre-industrial levels. We get to know about the different considerations that go behind climate change negotiations, as well as Malaysia’s progress and challenges in achieving its environmental goals. Hilary Chiew, climate change researcher at Third World Network, helps us make sense of what’s going on in the global effort to halt climate change.

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Technology is rapidly changing many parts of our lives and that includes the way we learn. However, schools and our education system has more or less remained the same. We speak to Dr. Connie Chung, Associate Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education about the trends she is seeing in education and what role schools and teachers should play in the 21st century.

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Keeshaanan, Pravin & Arvind discuss Arsenal's win over non league Lincoln City. Are things right againat the Emirates after big win? Man City progress through to the last 4 along with Spurs who put 6 past Millwall without Harry Kane. There's talk about the league. How big was Hull's win over Swansea? And what about Bournemouth's over West Ham? There's a preview of Chelsea v Man Utd, UCL & UEL.

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