The Big Picture - (Changi Prison) - Intro

This three parter was first broadcasted on July of 2000. I had done this series in a bid to set the Singaporean public thinking about the impact of the forthcoming demolition of Changi Prison. Changi Prison is perhaps the only structure in Singapore that is a world historic icon. Many Allied POWs were interned there by the Japanese during World War 2.

Socially, it has many significance as well. A country social memory is the aggregate of its good and bad. One remembers the heroes but also villians. Perhaps, that's why the Alcatraz became such a tourist magnet. Changi Prison is also where a number of Singapore's politicians were imprisoned by the British colonial government.

This three parter on Changi Prison became my very first radio documentary when I first joined Newsradio 938 in the year 2000.

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