Sg, Merah Linda Chang

When we were young, the radio was a wonderful part of our life. It entertained us and it was definitely an important part of our micro culture.

For those of us educated in both English and Chinese we enjoyed both "channels", the English and the Chinese. Besides we were also very fond of listening to the Foochow news , especially the news read by 



our cousin, Hsiung Kwo Hua.

We were also familiar with names like Uncle Tan Seng Lim, Mr. Anthony Romanair etc.

But apart from the various Chinese announcers of RTM Chinese Channel, we remember Aunty Linda Chang Ping Te most.


Aunty Chang was a Shanghai born lady married to Mr.Wong from Sungei Merah.

Aunty Linda was our Radio Play IDOL on Thursday nights, when the radio broadcast family plays.

The Mandarin Family plays affected us a lot. We looked forward to listening to the radio. All of us kids would sit down in front of our small radio and listened carefully.

I believe we really learned a lot of moral lessons from these Mandarin plays. And we loved the voice of Aunty Chang. In later years we met her in Kuching when she managed a Chinese restaurant. What a kind lady she was.

I am proud to have her daughter Po Po as my classmate for a short while in the Primary School. Later we met up again at University of Malaya.

This photo is from Po Po...

Another uncle we remember from our radio listening days was Uncle William Chou.