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BiblioAsia Podcast
National Library, Singapore
Roweming Around Podcast
Allison
The Captain America Minute Podcast
The Captain America Minute Podcast
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
Clay Cane Extended!
Clay Cane
Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark
Darren Marlar
Napoléon, l'homme qui ne meurt jamais
France Inter
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar | Weird Darkness | Full-Time Voice Actor
Geschichte Europas
Tobias Jakobi
Gone Medieval
History Hit
Iowa Basement Tapes
Kristian Day
History & Factoids about today
Coool Media
The Barcelona Podcast
Blue Wire
גדי טאוב: שומר סף
ד"ר גדי טאוב
Arroe Collins View From The Writing Instrument
Arroe Collins
The Vince Everett Ellison Show
Media Squatch
As The Story Grows
Bryan Patton
Enigmas sin resolver
Uforia Podcasts
Haunted American History
Bloody FM
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast
Matt Whitman
Takin' A Walk - Music History with Buzz Knight
iHeartPodcasts
Catholic Saints
Augustine Institute
Michigan Minute
WKAR Public Media
The Moon in Carolina
Shelby Bundy
On This Day in Working Class History
Working Class History
Disturbing History
Disturbing History-True Stories
Commuter Bible OT
John Ross
The Strange History Podcast
Strange History
This Day in Sports History
Thrive Sweet Productions
Daily Sports History
Ethan Reese
Harold's Old Time Radio
Harolds Old Time Radio
מה יש בזה
קובי מלמד ואלעד יצחקיאן
The Mainstream with Brett Maybee
Brett Maybee
The J.John & Tom Wright Podcast
J.John
Davis and Davis Show
Scott Davis
Shalom From Tel Aviv with Paul Maleary & Nigel Lithman KC
Paul Maleary
History
National Library, Singapore
A film studio and theme park in Jurong opened to grand fanfare in 1992. Named Tang Dynasty City, it was modelled after the ancient city of Chang’an. Despite its underground terracotta warriors and other attractions, it s...
Giovanni Gaggino came to Singapore around 1874 and lived here for more than 40 years. During that time, he set up a successful business providing supplies to vessels passing through Singapore, he wrote an Italian-Malay d...
Singapore's time zone has been changed at least seven times since 1905, including during the Japanese Occupation when it was synchronised to Tokyo time. Arts librarian Kenneth Tay explains the historical context for the ...
Hedwig Anuar was the first Malayan to head the National Library, a position she held for 23 years until 1988. She was also involved in the setting up the Singapore Book Council, National Archives of Singapore and Associa...
Lee Ek Tieng (1933–2025) was the civil servant who headed the clean-up of the Singapore River, had the foresight to modernise the sanitation system, and ensured water self-sufficiency for Singapore. Writer Samantha Boh t...
Before air conditioning was introduced in Singapore in the 1920s, temperature control was a matter of architectural design. Environmental historian Fiona Williamson tells us how people kept themselves cool before air con...
Jan Beránek sets out to find out what happened to his granduncle, Silvestr Němec, who left his Czech village for Singapore in 1938 and died as a volunteer during WWII. He finds Silvestr’s story woven with that of the Bat...
Former Straits Times editor-in-chief Cheong Yip Seng tells us how he negotiated OB markers with the government during his tenure (1987–2006), how he balanced the interests of the paper’s stakeholders, and which news stor...
The Hawkins Road camp in Sembawang was home to thousands of Vietnamese refugees until it closed in 1996. Researcher Rebecca Tan talks about how the refugees spent their days in the camp and their lives after Singapore.Re...
The national anthem that we know today wasn't the original version composed by Zubir Said. His first version was longer and was set at a higher key. Emeritus Professor Bernard Tan talks about how "Majulah Singapura" came...
Tay Seow Huah, then Permanent Secretary for the Home Affairs Ministry, helmed Singapore’s response to the 1974 Laju hijacking incident. This was when four terrorists tried (but failed) to destroy Shell’s oil infrastructu...
Hawkers traditionally sell their food on streets. Uniquely in Singapore though, they ply their trade in fixed stalls in hawker centres. Ryan Kueh, author of the bestselling From Streets to Stalls, tells us how the hawker...
Many people know of the story of Badang the strongman, an aboriginal slave who gains supernatural strength after eating the vomit of a spirit. He throws a stone, which might or might not be the Singapore Stone, and his m...
When Peng Tsu Ying came to Singapore from Shanghai in the late 1940s, he could not find a deaf person like him. Determined to improve the situation for the deaf community, he founded Singapore's first school for the deaf...
In 1952, four Singapore artists – Chen Chong Swee, Chen Wen Hsi, Cheong Soo Pieng and Liu Kang – travelled to Java and Bali in search of artistic inspiration. The following year, they put up an exhibition showcasing art ...
Zubir Said (1907–87) gave Singapore its national anthem, “Majulah Singapura”, and its official Children’s Day song, “Semoga Bahagia”. Working with theatre company Wild Rice, music director Julian Wong put together a crit...
Sharing the literary landscape with contemporaries like D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) travelled to Singapore in 1921. Though he was already well-known as a writer then, it was his stay...
Singaporeans love animals, but only selectively. Otters, Ah Meng the orangutan, and Inuka the polar bear are among the beloved. Less favoured are monkeys in the Botanic Gardens, many of which were culled before WWII, and...
To write a book about 60 Asian port cities, ex–ACM director Kennie Ting travelled as far as the Middle East and Africa. He tells us how port cities can tell a different history of Asia, and what his "eat, pray, love" cit...
A journalist turned politician turned diplomat, S. Rajaratnam (1915–2006) wore many hats in the service of Singapore. His contribution to Singapore is so great that to cover his life adequately required 20 years of resea...
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