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The Forgotten Murals of Paya Lebar Airport

Broadcast on:
18 Jun 2023

Three large murals used to grace the walls of Paya Lebar Airport, depicting scenes from Singapore and Malaysia. Librarian Dahlia Shamsuddin, the daughter of one of the artists involved, recounts her efforts to uncover the fate of her father’s mural.

Dahlia is a senior librarian at the Singapore's National Library Board, where she catalogues legal deposit, gift and donor materials.

Read the transcript and the original BiblioAsia article on biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/podcast/about.

This episode of BiblioAsia+ was hosted by Jimmy Yap and produced by Soh Gek Han. Sound engineering was done by Gibson Analytics. The background music "Di Tanjong Katong" was composed by Osman Ahmad and performed by Chords Haven. Special thanks to Dahlia for coming on the show.

BiblioAsia+ is a podcast about Singapore history by the National Library of Singapore.