Crafting Voices: An Interview with BFM’s Lee Chwi Lynn and Sharmilla Ganesan
By William Tham
April 2022 FEATURE
MANY YEARS AGO, an unnamed German programme director, in conversation with Walter Benjamin, recalled how his first foray into broadcasting did not quite go according to plan:The radio listener is almost always a solitary individual […] you need to behave as if you were speaking to a solitary individual but in no case to a large gathering of people.[1]Several decades on, how has this changed? What does the radio landscape look like for the people behind the microphone?The Art of...
William Tham
His novel, The Last Days, is set in 1981 and covers the continuing legacy of the Malayan Emergency. He is currently an editor-at-large with Wasifiri and also an MA candidate at Universiti Malaya.
