Bookmark This!

Bookmark This!

by

Synopsis: A monthly literary podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

Podcasters: Olivia Ho & Toh Wen Li

Produced by The Straits Times, Singapore Press Holdings

Bookmark This! Ep 15: Escape into these books 23:54 mins Synopsis: A podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads. After nearly two months under circuit breaker, you may want to break free – so journalists Olivia Ho (right) and Toh Wen Li (far right) pick out some escapist reads for you in the latest episode of this Straits Times literary podcast, whether it is renowned author Dan Brown or feeling less miserable with Les Miserables. Choose your own adventure in Intan Paramaditha’s The Wandering, or flee a futuristic Singapore for new worlds in Judith Huang’s Sofia And The Utopia Machine. Listen at: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown: 1:10 Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones: 4:45 The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy: 8:37 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: 11:40 Sofia And The Utopia Machine by Judith Huang: 16:52 The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha: 20:58 Produced by: Olivia Ho, Toh Wen Li and Penelope Lee Edited by: Penelope Lee Follow Bookmark This! Podcast series and rate us on: Channel: https://str.sg/JWas Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWae Spotify: https://str.sg/JWan Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWah Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg

Recent Episodes

  • Escape into these books: Bookmark This! Ep 15

    4 years ago
  • Pandemic novels for stay-home reading: Bookmark This! Ep 14

    4 years ago
  • In the mood for love poems: Bookmark This! Ep 13

    4 years ago
  • Clothes, consumption and the climate crisis: Bookmark This! Ep 12

    4 years ago
  • Booker breakdown - Atwood, Rushdie or the 1,000-page sentence?: Bookmark This! Ep 11

    5 years ago
  • Screen sirens, showgirls and sexuality: Bookmark This! Ep 10

    5 years ago
  • Reviewing global and Singapore audiobooks: Bookmark This! Ep 9

    5 years ago
  • Middlemarch, Middle-Earth and the end of the world: Bookmark This! Ep 8

    5 years ago
  • Singaporean Lee Jing-Jing's historical novel How We Disappeared; New York novelist Siri Hustvedt's Memories Of The Future: Bookmark This! Ep7

    5 years ago
  • Bookmark This!: Ep 6 – Assassins, AI and alternate histories

    5 years ago