Night School

What does Buddhism say about gratitude? Night school regular and quasi monk Sandy Clarke joins us to share lessons on thankfulness from one of the worlds most fascinating spiritual traditions.

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We commemorate Merdeka by talking about how difficult it is to buy vintage books on Malaysia. What might this say about our reading culture? What should be improved? Muhammed Nazreen of Bukuku Press and book collector Amir Al-Helmy share their thoughts.

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We try to translate some common English terms and phrases from the world of modern romance.

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Ethnomusicologist Adil Johan joins the show again, this time to speak about his book on the music of Malay films during the independence era. Tune in to find out how some of P. Ramlee's most memorable songs speak to the contradictions and aspirations of Malaysian nation-building.

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This time we do it the other way round: we find BM equivalents of English words, focusing on the liberal lexicon and its curious view of personhood.

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There has been a lot of discussion about the remarkable result of the recent GE14, with many factors influencing the outcome. This week, we explore the role of the arts during the election period, and how politically-driven crafts might resonate with the public. We speak to two artistes turned politicians to hear their experiences and insights.

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This week, we reflect on the happiness industry and the world it has formed by going back to basics: what is happiness? Do we really mean 'happy' when we mean something else? How has the pursuit of happiness left so many people miserable? Sandy Clark and Sarah Yung help us think through these questions and more.

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Three BFM-type Malays try their best to translate some words from their own language. It turned out to be more complicated than they thought. Tune in to find out what they learned along the way. This episode is brought to you by sengal, meroyan, mengada, segan, cuak, hati, menganjing, kasihan, and jambu.

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PSM suffered massive defeats during the 14th general elections. Why? What were the lessons learned? And how will they move on from here? The party's secretary-general Sivarajan Arumugam joins us to explain it all.

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Evone Phoo joins us this week to preview "Let's Grief: Trauma, Loss and Growth", an upcoming international conference at HELP University (July 21-22), organised by Existential-Humanistic Psychology Malaysia. Among other things, we discuss the social implications of grief with a little help from Winnie the Pooh.

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