Myanmar Oral History Project - life stories

About Myanmar Oral History Project - life stories

Oral histories of Myanmar - life stories; some starting as far back as the late 1920’s.From my years of involvement in Myanmar I have become aware of the increasing scarcity of the generation of Myanma citizens who were born during the colonial period and have lived through the tumultuous years since that time. For me, these men and women are "national treasures" whose experience, perseverance and wisdom gained during their long lives will be lost unless we capture their stories in some way. To this end I have decided to interview a number of these elderly citizens. My hope is that these interviews will be of interest to historians, sociologists and other researchers in the future as well as for the family and friends of those interviewed.

Publisher

Peter Church

Category

arts · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Nov 2017

Latest episode

22 Sept 2025

Latest episodes

80 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Sept 2025

   Sao Noan Oo or Nel Adams, born 1931 - Unravelling the history of the Panglong Agreement and the rights of the Shan people

   94 year old Sao Noan Oo was born in Shan State as a princess, being the daughter of the Sawbwa or Sao Hpa of Lawksawk, a state in the Federated Shan States or Mong Tai. She has been fighting for the rights of the Shan people for almost all of her long life. And she hasn't given up yet. Sao Noan Oo was studying in England at the time of the 1962 coup and her scholarship was cancelled. Given what happened to her family and other Shan families after that coup she has never ret...

2. 

   22 Dec 2024

   Linda Lewin - Episode 2 - the adventurous life of her great uncle San Po Thin and the sad end of her grandfather, San Po Lwin's life

   Linda Lewin, using the recollections of her 94 year old father, Boh Lay Desmond and other family members and friends, has written the story of her family covering a number of generations. In this episode we hear how her grandfather's life ended in Bassein (now Pathein) during the Japanese invasion in 1943 and also hear of the adventurous life of her great uncle, San Po Thin. The book, My Faraway Country Myanmar was written by Linda Lewin and published by Gold Hare in 2023 and may b...

3. 

   7 Dec 2024

   U David Maung Nyi was born in Kyaukse on 15 April, 1936. He was educated in Kyaukse, Mandalay, Yangon and Otago (New Zealand). He worked in senior roles in the Government's mining companies but resigned after the 1988 riots and coup.

   U David Maung Nyi shares his life story as a mining engineer who spent decades working at Myanmar's famous Bawdwin mine, witnessing the country's turbulent history firsthand.

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