Island Life, Working At The Port: Stories From Singapore's South | Let Me Tell You A Story S2

Singapore’s story began in the south - the island’s first gateway to the world. From Pulau Brani to Pasir Panjang, former residents who grew up along these coastlines recall a childhood shaped by the sea, thriving industries and a young nation on the cusp of greatness.

Pulau Brani was once a tropical haven: home to a vibrant seaside kampong and a tin-smelting factory that exported refined tin across the globe. Across the water, the mainland was rising fast. The harbour expanded to rival the world’s best, breweries brewed for export and power stations ran day and night to light up the island.

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00:00 Life on Singapore's southern islands
02:24 Orang Laut and arrival of the British
04:35 Living on stilts
07:22 Island life: getting water, using the bathroom
09:13 Tin smelting and export industry
12:15 Origins of Keppel Harbour
14:35 Life of dock workers
18:05 British family life captured on video
21:07 Living off the sea
22:52 Singapore's first power plants
24:58 Power plant workers and their families
28:17 1960s: Singapore bets on industrialisation
29:12 Tiger Beer's start
31:16 Civil unrest and gang fights
33:37 A trip to the mainland
35:54 Running Singapore's busy port
38:13 Railway from Tanjong Pagar to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
42:09 Moving out of Pulau Brani

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About the show: These are the stories of the last surviving historians among us. Hear the vivid memories of a time gone by, told by a generation who grew up in a completely different Singapore nearly 100 years ago.
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